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DocTrain East, day two by Communications from DMN
Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
DocTrain East, day two by Communications from DMN. Read more..Interview with Scott Abel, Conference Organizer Extraordinaire
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 3 Comments »
[caption id="attachment_2145" align="alignright" width="120" caption="Scott Abel, conference organizer extraordinairre"][/caption] Last week I caught up with Scott Abel, a well-known content management guru, for an interview. As you probably know, Scott has ... Read more..Podcast: How XML Enables Information Sharing and Reuse — Interview with Joe Gollner
Sunday, May 25th, 2008 Posted in Podcasts | 1 Comment »
Download MP3 Duration: 15 min. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts/gollner.mp3] XML, a way of tagging and structuring your content, can help solve a number of problems, including storing, mining, reusing, and sharing content. XML helps enable the ... Read more..Podcast: Document Engineering, Interview with Robert Glushko
Saturday, May 17th, 2008 Posted in Podcasts, Technical Writing, Web Design | 7 Comments »
Download MP3 Duration: 15 min. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts/glushko.mp3] In this podcast, Dr. Robert Glushko, a professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information, explains the concept of Document Engineering -- the process of developing document models ... Read more..The Right Way and Wrong Way to Teach People WordPress: Notes from a Wordcamp Utah Planning Meeting at Applebees
Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Technical Writing | 10 Comments »
Tonight I attended a WordCamp Utah planning meeting at Applebees with a group of blogging enthusiasts. Joseph Scott, one of the WordPress developers employed by Automattic, organized the event and is ... Read more..How to Get Everyone and Their Dog/Family/Friends Reading and Subscribing to Your Blog — 10 Tips
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Blogging | 15 Comments »
Just a few days after someone begins blogging seriously, he or she starts hungering after subscribers and comments. We want readership, we want lots of people visiting our site, ... Read more..Lots of 2008 SXSW Podcasts Now Available
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Podcasting | 3 Comments »
The 2008 South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) festival, currently underway in Austin, Texas, until March 16, is one of the most popular, high-energy tech conferences of the year. This Interactive conference ... Read more..10 Ways to Bomb Your Presentation
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 13 Comments »
Conference season is approaching and presenters are busy preparing their notes and PowerPoint slides. Now is the perfect time to review some good ways to bomb a presentation (especially since ... Read more..Technical Writing Careers — Answering 13 Questions about Technical Writing Jobs
Saturday, February 16th, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 46 Comments »
Technical writing careers are often a mystery to those on the outside. What do technical writing jobs involve? What is the industry like? What is the career path of a ... Read more..Free Doc Train Ticket ($899) for Your Response to a Question About Innovation
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 8 Comments »
In May I'll be participating on a Documentation and Training West panel in a session called Meet the Bloggers. As a presenter, Scott Abel has given me a free guest ... Read more..