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April 18, 2008 by annegentle

Wiki as online help source

A response to the question, Wiki-to-Help? on the Help Authoring Tool Yahoo Group. One of our test engineers (and the lead developer of our company wiki) just approached me with the idea of using our company’s internal wiki as the central repository for all company material and using it to generate online help. I’m following […]

Filed Under: social media, techpubs, writing Tagged With: content, online help, techpubs, user assistance, user-generated content, Web 2.0, wiki, wikislice

April 17, 2008 by annegentle

Building a DITA-Wiki Hybrid

Building a DITA-Wiki Hybrid

The April 2008 issue of the STC Intercom magazine is dedicated to DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture). I’m pleased that the Building a DITA-Wiki Hybrid article that I co-authored with Lisa Dyer and Michael Priestly is available online for free to anyone, STC member or non-member. The article discusses these three ideas for merging DITA […]

Filed Under: DITA, wiki, writing Tagged With: agile, DITA, OASIS, technical writing, training, wiki

April 2, 2008 by annegentle

Quadralay, a wiki-driven company

Alan Porter’s presentation at the Central Texas DITA User Group meeting talked about Quadralay’s use of wikis internally and their external wiki at wiki.webworks.com. They have four wikis in operation right now, with one more to come. Back in 2003, they started their first wiki for the development team. Their company is a small one, […]

Filed Under: wiki Tagged With: Austin, DITA, Quadralay, WebWorks, wiki

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