Comments on: The Evolutionary Strategy of Web 2.0 — It’s Like Having 100 Personal Researchers Working For You http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/ Technical Communication Blog / Technical Writing Blog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:23:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: whoissouthdakota.info » http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-36557 whoissouthdakota.info » Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:12:35 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/#comment-36557 [...] The Evolutionary Strategy of Web 2.0 It S Like Having 100In this IT Conversations panelist podcast from SofTECH, Robert Rebholz explains he engages in Web 2.0 media blogs, social tagging, and other social collaborative sites because the ROI for rmation is the equivalent of having 100www.idratherbewriting.com [...] [...] The Evolutionary Strategy of Web 2.0 It S Like Having 100In this IT Conversations panelist podcast from SofTECH, Robert Rebholz explains he engages in Web 2.0 media blogs, social tagging, and other social collaborative sites because the ROI for rmation is the equivalent of having 100www.idratherbewriting.com [...]

]]> By: Unraveling the Geologic Stratum of the Blogosphere: Why We Blog | I'd Rather Be Writing http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-13129 Unraveling the Geologic Stratum of the Blogosphere: Why We Blog | I'd Rather Be Writing Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:58:54 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/#comment-13129 [...] and make comments. Sometimes it can be like having 100 personal researchers working for you, as one writer put it. Readers enrich your thoughts by providing important additions, corrections, reflections, and other [...] [...] and make comments. Sometimes it can be like having 100 personal researchers working for you, as one writer put it. Readers enrich your thoughts by providing important additions, corrections, reflections, and other [...]

]]> By: avi http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5945 avi Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:50:33 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/#comment-5945 Thanks, Tom. I guess the real question is how to implement web 2.0 principles in my workspace :-) Thanks, Tom.
I guess the real question is how to implement web 2.0 principles in my workspace :-)

]]> By: Tom http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5881 Tom Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:39:54 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/#comment-5881 Dan, the idea of scaling your team through community sounds cool. I sometimes fear a growing community of SMEs contributing to documentation can only spell doom for the tech writer, but maybe not. We will just have to reinvent ourselves in different ways, wearing new hats. By the way, do you have a blog? I haven't seen your link, and you seem to have a lot of interesting ideas. Dan, the idea of scaling your team through community sounds cool. I sometimes fear a growing community of SMEs contributing to documentation can only spell doom for the tech writer, but maybe not. We will just have to reinvent ourselves in different ways, wearing new hats.

By the way, do you have a blog? I haven’t seen your link, and you seem to have a lot of interesting ideas.

]]> By: Tom http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5877 Tom Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:32:10 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/#comment-5877 Avi, the reference to evolution is from the podcast. What makes one species smarter, faster, stronger -- able to outlive the others? Whatever that principle is, it is evolutionary in scope. For humans, it's web 2.0 -- it makes us smarter, faster, stronger, and therefore more likely to perform better than others. The speaker's point is that social media is not a merely interactive and social. Web 2.0 helps us move up the human evolutionary ladder. At least that's how I understand his reference to evolution. Avi, the reference to evolution is from the podcast. What makes one species smarter, faster, stronger — able to outlive the others? Whatever that principle is, it is evolutionary in scope. For humans, it’s web 2.0 — it makes us smarter, faster, stronger, and therefore more likely to perform better than others. The speaker’s point is that social media is not a merely interactive and social. Web 2.0 helps us move up the human evolutionary ladder. At least that’s how I understand his reference to evolution.

]]> By: avi http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5621 avi Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:48:14 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/#comment-5621 - I totally agree that the days of "one-writer-does-it-all paradigm." are over. - What do you mean by: "Web 2.0 is an evolutionary principle."? - I totally agree that the days of “one-writer-does-it-all paradigm.” are over.
- What do you mean by: “Web 2.0 is an evolutionary principle.”?

]]> By: Dan http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5591 Dan Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:40:25 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/03/13/the-evolutionary-strategy-of-web-20-%e2%80%94-its-like-having-100-personal-researchers-working-for-you/#comment-5591 Great post! At the company where I work, I've been tasked with figuring out a way to scale the Documentation team. With the trend towards offshoring, I think that execs expect that every team to be able to offshore work at a moment's notice. We all know the research and experiences with offshoring (it's not a panacea for doing more with less). With the pace at which the tech industry moves and with current workloads, I don't have the time to develop a transition plan for scaling my team to include offshore resources as the workload increases/decreases. My thoughts have been towards the community approach. If I can implement a plan for making it easier for my SMEs to contribute to content development, then my writers can replace some of the writing burden with editing and content management work. The team can quickly scale without the ramp up time to learn the technology or application we are writing about. Great post! At the company where I work, I’ve been tasked with figuring out a way to scale the Documentation team. With the trend towards offshoring, I think that execs expect that every team to be able to offshore work at a moment’s notice. We all know the research and experiences with offshoring (it’s not a panacea for doing more with less). With the pace at which the tech industry moves and with current workloads, I don’t have the time to develop a transition plan for scaling my team to include offshore resources as the workload increases/decreases. My thoughts have been towards the community approach. If I can implement a plan for making it easier for my SMEs to contribute to content development, then my writers can replace some of the writing burden with editing and content management work. The team can quickly scale without the ramp up time to learn the technology or application we are writing about.

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