I’d Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson

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..

Marketing Yourself and Your Experience to Others in a Web 2.0 World

Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 6 Comments »

I'm excited about a panel that I'm going to be on with Scott Abel, Rahel Bailie, Chris Hester, and Ann Rockley tomorrow afternoon at the STC Conference in Philadelphia. The panel ... Read more..

Exploring Web 2.0 Possibilities in a SharePoint-Endorsed Environment

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in SharePoint, Technical Writing | 13 Comments »

I sometimes feel that my life online varies drastically from my life at work. Online, I blog and publish podcasts and write about wikis and Web 2.0. But at work, ... Read more..

Podcast — Social Networking and the Value of User Communities for Technical Communicators

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Tech Writer Voices, social networking | 12 Comments »

Download MP3 (right-click, select Save Target As) Duration: 20 min. [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts/socialnetworks.mp3] In this podcast, I talk with Scott Abel about social networking, in particular The Content Wrangler community he started at TheContentWrangler.ning.com. Scott ... Read more..

Are You One of the 824 Technical Communicators on Ning Yet?

Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Podcasting, Technical Writing, social networks | 2 Comments »

Ning ("peace" in Chinese) is a social network application that allows groups to communicate and connect with each other in seamless, convenient ways. Scott Abel just recently started a new ... Read more..

Lots of 2008 SXSW Podcasts Now Available

Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Podcasting, creativity | 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..

How to Share Everything with Everyone (well, a few things anyway)

Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 5 Comments »

In the pages section of my site (upper-left corner), I've added several new features: a Google Reader blogroll, podroll, and a shared Pandora feed. This blogroll is different from the ... Read more..

Cool Example of AJAX in a Blog — Increases Usability

Saturday, September 15th, 2007 Posted in Blogging, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »

Scott Abel's The Content Wrangler has a cool example of using AJAX (asynchronous javascript) in his blog to increase usability. Kevin Shoesmith is the blog designer behind the Wrangler's makeover. ... Read more..