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February 8, 2008 by annegentle

Upcoming wiki talks in the central Texas area

Next week I’m presenting at the Alamo STC Chapter, giving a talk titled “A Technical Writer’s Role in Web 2.0 — Wiki-fy Your Doc Set.” It’s at the Igo Library in northwest San Antonio and you’ll want to refer to their website for directions. It’s Tuesday February 12th with the presentation starting at 7:00. I […]

November 1, 2007 by annegentle

A Technical Writer’s Role in Web 2.0 – Wiki-fy Your Doc Set

Next week I’m speaking at our local Austin STC meeting about wikis and technical documentation. Here’s the relevant information if you’re in the area. Interestingly, Scott Abel of The Content Wrangler is giving his Web 2.0 talk at the Quadralay WebWorks RoundUp that afternoon as well. It’s a Web 2.0 world for tech pubs folks […]

October 4, 2007 by annegentle

The “Quick Web” for Technical Documentation

I’m happy to report that my article about using wikis for technical documentation was published last week in the STC Intercom. A PDF my article is available for anyone to download, STC member or STC non-members alike. I’ll be giving a presentation about wikis for technical documentnation to the STC Austin community on Tuesday November […]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about developer support at Cisco recently, especially for the way the world works today with multiple cloud providers. This post is a re-publish of my talk from over five years ago, but the techniques and tools for listening and helping others are still true today. At Rackspace, we watched several […]

Cisco DevNet is our developer program for outreach, education, and tools for developers at Cisco. From the beginning, the team has had a vision for how to run a developer program. Customers are first, and the team implements what Cisco customers need for automation, configuration, and deployment of our various offerings. Plus, the DevNet team […]

I had a great talk with Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf Technical Writing consulting last week. Here are the show notes, full of links to all the topics we covered. Podcasts are great fun to listen to and participate in, if a bit nerve-wracking to think on your feet and make sure you answer questions succinctly […]

At the beginning of this year, I worked hard to summarize my thoughts on API documentation, continuous publishing, and technical accuracy for developer documentation. The result is an article on InfoQ.com, edited by Deepak Nadig, who also was forward-thinking in having me speak to a few teams at Intuit about API documentation coupled with code. Always […]