After a Q&A on the Facebook discussion page for my book, Sarah Maddox and I had an additional email exchange talking about the difficulties people face when using wikis for documentation. I believe that many wikis are in the range of “content management systems” or moving in that direction. But there are many difficulties in […]
Focus on the User
I’ve published a long-ish article on the WritersUA site where I describe techniques for user assistance that let the user participate. It starts with simple techniques such as comments and moves towards community documentation efforts. Please read and share Putting the User in User Assistance. I’d love to hear what you think about these techniques.
Collaborative authoring – tools and costs
I’ve been working on some collaborative authoring scenarios for our Agile teams – we’re going from 5 people to 47 people in total who could author external or internal documentation within our two week sprints. Turns out, we likely represent some trends in the enterprise – Forrester just released a report about benchmarking your collaboration […]