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..

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

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Podcasts | 15 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 | 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..

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..