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November 4, 2009 by annegentle

Consistency and community-generated content

Consistency and community-generated content

I’ve been collecting examples of wildly inconsistent writing lately. I’m not sure why these have stuck out to me, but when I think of book sprints and community writing events, consistency is an important, though sometimes difficult, goal and outcome. Why consistency? You may not be a big fan, especially if you’re a creative type, […]

Filed Under: social media Tagged With: community, consistency, editing, writing

October 10, 2009 by annegentle

Content curation – a manifesto

Content curation – a manifesto

The phrase “content curator” was one I had to define in the glossary of my book. It seems now that content curator is an idea that others are writing about as well. RJ Jacquez, Adobe product evangelist, tweeted a link to an article about Content Curation on the site Social Media Today titled “Manifesto for […]

Filed Under: social media Tagged With: career, career plans, content, content creation, jobs, web content, writing

September 17, 2009 by annegentle

Talking to Ellis Pratt about Conversation and Community

Talking to Ellis Pratt about Conversation and Community

I spoke with Ellis Pratt with Cherryleaf in London from my home in Austin for a video interview last week, and the shortened version is available online now. He had many good questions, ones that I enjoy discussing all the time, such as the future of our profession. One good one was “What will user […]

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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 […]

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