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Together or Apart: Collaboration Models for Technical Writing
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Technical Writing | 9 Comments »
Today I spent a rather lonely day writing documentation. I had one team meeting, during which our team gathered for what seemed like a brief second. We then departed back ... Read more..Fragmented Communities and the Chapter/SIG Web Site Problem
Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in Web 2.0, Web Design | 6 Comments »
Recently Will Sansbury and I gave a webinar to STC community leaders on chapter and SIG websites. Rather than giving a static, one-way presentation about theoretical concepts with web design, ... Read more..Design Reviews and Posting Without Answers
Sunday, November 8th, 2009 Posted in Technical Writing | 1 Comment »
Recently our technical writing team at work (Information Strategies and Design) started holding regular design reviews. The review sessions are patterned after meetings that our interaction designers hold regularly, in ... Read more..A Few Surprises in Using a Wiki for Documentation
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Posted in Wikis | 16 Comments »
Recently I've been working on a simple calendar project that uses a wiki for documentation. Although I've heard a lot about using wikis for documentation, and have even used them ... Read more..How Do Blogs and Wikis Fit Together?
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Wikis | 7 Comments »
Although many people put blogs and wikis in the same social media category, blogs and wikis are actually quite different. Blogs are individually authored mini-magazines or journals where one author ... Read more..Podcast with Anne Gentle about her Conversation and Community book
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Podcasts, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
[amazon-product align="right"]0982219113[/amazon-product][audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts/conversationandcommunity.mp3] Download MP3 Length: 40 min. As a follow-up to my review of Anne Gentle's book, [amazon-product type="text" text="Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation"]0982219113[/amazon-product], I also interviewed her for ... Read more..Review of Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation
Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
[amazon-product align="right"]0982219113[/amazon-product] One of the perks about being a blogger is that authors occasionally send me their books to review. Recently Anne Gentle sent me her new book, [amazon-product type="text" text="Conversation ... Read more..“What I’m Reading”: A New Feature on My Site and a Tweak of Writer River
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 Posted in Web 2.0, Web Design, WordPress | 4 Comments »
I'm trying something a little new on my blog. Previously, every time I read a cool post, I submitted the link to Writer River. The problem with that, however, is ... Read more..10 Reasons Why I Like WordPress
Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Posted in WordPress | 18 Comments »
When choosing a blog platform, you have a variety of options: Drupal, Movable Type, Typepad, Blogger, Joomla, Expression Engine, WordPress.com, self-hosted WordPress, and others. But when you start researching the ... Read more..Write Answers, Not Documentation
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
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