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May 5th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging 10 Comments »
You can now list your blog in a technical writing blog directory at www.techwriterblogs.com. (I just set this up with a wiki.) If you’re a technical writer/communicator and you blog, or if your blog contains information of interest to technical writers, please list it on the wiki by clicking the Edit this Page button in the upper-left corner (see image below). Then just follow the example formatting of the first entry. After one week I’ll combine the feeds into an OPML file and a Yahoo pipes feed.
* After you add your blog details, please write a post on your blog lettings others know about the directory.
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Thanks for the wiki directory, Tom. We have used dokuwiki for our team’s style guide and have implemented pmwiki for our team standards and processes. There are pros and cons for both (when aren’t there pros and cons?). Anyway, thanks for organizing the information. It will be a valuable resource for our industry.
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Tom, thanks for setting this up. Repeating what I said in my post….when do you find time to sleep? or work? or … whatever? You’re an amazing example of right-brain/left-brain balance and organized creativity.
Thanks so much for all you do in the blogosphere!
Dan,
Can you share more about the pros and cons of dokuwiki vs. pmwiki (even as a post on your blog)? I have been playing around with dokuwiki for the past few days and I really like it.
I am also eager to find a good template to try to style the wiki so that it doesn’t look so generic. Do you have any recommendations on templates?
[...] The other day I interviewed Katriel Reichman about wikis (the podcast will be posted soon) and he recommended Dokuwiki and Mediawiki. Mediawiki runs Wikipedia, so we’re all familiar with how it looks. After the podcast I installed Dokuwiki to create the Tech Writer Blog Directory that I mentioned in an earlier post. [...]
[...] The other day I interviewed Katriel Reichman about wikis (the podcast will be posted soon) and he recommended Dokuwiki and Mediawiki. Mediawiki runs Wikipedia, so you’re probably familiar with how it looks. After the podcast I installed Dokuwiki to create the Tech Writer Blog Directory that I mentioned in an earlier post. [...]
Judy,
Thanks for your comment. When do I find time to sleep or work? Well, that’s a good question. I did cancel my cable TV. Actually I’ve received this question at least a half a dozen times — blogs and podcasts are fun, but who has time to devote to them?
It would be a lie to say that blogging and podcasting doesn’t take time. But here’s the thing: it’s not a chore that I have to do. It’s fun, so it fits into my schedule.
I was listening to a podcast the other day and the interviewee addressed this topic with a Mark Twain story. I’ll elaborate on that with a new post because it will take a bit to explain. In short, we do things that we want to do because they make us feel good or that we find rewarding. That’s a major principle behind social design.
Another strong motivator for the blog is to simply keep a journal of what I’m learning. If I don’t blog about it, I’m afraid I’ll forget.
You canceled your cable TV. I think I’d rather cut my arm off! I watch a lot of digital cable TV.
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