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September 12, 2006 by annegentle

Reports and proposals in technical publications

Plus a description of what a technical writer does through an interview with a technical communication student from Miami University I got an interesting query from Matt, a student at Miami University in Ohio, where I received my master’s degree in Scientific and Technical Communication (MTSC). Miami University also has an excellent bachelor’s degree program […]

May 18, 2006 by annegentle

Learning more about DITA

Learning about how to get started with DITA and a trivia item for fun Jen Linton, the co-author of Introduction to DITA:Getting Started with the Darwin Information Typing Architecture is in Austin to teach the DITA Getting Started workshop hosted by BMC Software. I’m attending along with several of my co-workers, and we’re all learning […]

April 21, 2006 by annegentle

Notes from the Central Texas DITA User Group meeting

Two speakers shared their takeaways from DITA 2006 and CMS 2006 I attended the central Texas DITA users group meeting last night, and wanted to write up some notes. We had two speakers share their thoughts after attending two related conferences this spring. Bob Beims from Freescale shared his thoughts on attending the DITA 2006 […]

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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 […]