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May 13, 2007 by annegentle

The Tech Writer Blog directory

Tom Johnson offers a great wiki page to list blogs about technical writing I found the Tech Writer Blog directory from a post by Katriel Reichman who recently wrote me an email message in response to my post about Wikis for technical documentation – one writer’s story. Katriel has a nice post about rules for […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: blogs, technical writing, techpubs, writer, writing

April 3, 2007 by annegentle

Tech writers are blogging and podcasting

There are a bunch of new tech writing-related blogs and podcasters that I’m excited to see Since I’ve been away on maternity leave since October 2006, I missed the arrival of techwritervoices.com,, all podcasts related to technical writing topics. Very exciting stuff, birthed the same month as my new baby! I had already stumbled across […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: blogging, podcasting, SaaS, screencast, technical writing, techwritervoices

September 27, 2006 by annegentle

An outline for a passionate user guide

From “Creating Passionate Users,” Kathy Sierra follows up to her “let marketing write the manuals” post Her post on “Creating Passionate Users” is a long one but well worth reading — How to get users to RT*M. Since this is a G-rated blog, apologies for the known acronym. Let’s say it stands for “Read The […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: John Carroll, minimalism, minimalist documentation, technical writer, technical writing, The Nurnberg Funnel, topic authoring, user manuals

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