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An Interview About Technical Writing
Friday, October 9th, 2009 Posted in Technical Writing | 2 Comments »
[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts/carly.mp3] Download MP3 Length: 30 min. This is a special podcast for Carly Finseth at Clemson University who is thinking about entering the field of technical writing and wanted to ask me a ... Read more..Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
Friday, August 28th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
A scholar conducts a 6 year study of student writing and finds that, despite constant accusations that social media is taking writing downhill, actually "we're in the midst of a ... 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..Are You Irrelevant? Engaging, Provocative Video
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I saw this video on the Content Wrangler Community. The original source is on youtube. Talk about engaging. I completely agree with the person here. In a day when I'm ... Read more..People First: The Key to Social Media Strategy
Saturday, July 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
An insightful article about the struggle for associations to engage their members with social media. So appropriate for the STC right now. Thanks to Anne at justwriteclick.com for the link. Read more..Growing Happy Users – One Customer at a Time.
Saturday, May 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Growing Happy Users - One Customer at a Time. Using documentation as a way to engage and convert users into engaged community members. Read more..Managing Your Social Media Profiles and Badges
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 Posted in Blogging | 7 Comments »
Each social media site has its own badge. If you participate in a handful of them -- Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Tripit, etc -- it can be cumbersome to manage all ... Read more..Examples of blogs as online help and release notes | just write click
Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Examples of blogs as online help and release notes | just write click. Read more..Twittering Tips for Beginners – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Twittering Tips for Beginners - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com. Best part: I found one rule, though, that answered a long-standing question I had about Twitter: “Don’t tweet about what you’re doing ... Read more..Poll: What blogging software is available for use at your work?
Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Technical Writing | 8 Comments »
In this poll, I'm trying to find out what blogging software is available to technical communicators in the workplace (for publishing product information, building user communities, and doing other work-related ... Read more..