I have been reading many essays and articles lately about “where has technical writing gone” (including a nice reaction countering the manual-less existence Jared Spool perceives) and “woe is technical writing.” Okay, I made the last one up. But all of this reading and other recent experiences has made me think about the core competency […]
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 […]
The anti-social folksonomist
I’m finding that in del.icio.us I’m using keywords that no one else uses. Does this mean I’m an anti-social folksonomist? This discovery reminds me that it’s important for findability to have tags that others will use too. On sites where popularity counts, it might be better to match others’ tags depending on what your end […]