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Twitter Hashtags and Virtual Gatherings
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
I occasionally write for LDS Tech, a blog/forum site for the LDS Church's IT department, where I work. My latest article is titled "Twitter and LDS General Conference." Here's an ... Read more..Twitter Part II –- One Step Deeper
Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0, twitters | 3 Comments »
[caption id="attachment_2406" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Webworks and Twitter -- Innovative uses of Twitter with documentation"][/caption] Earlier this week I asked how others are using Twitter in their documentation and branding strategies. Alan ... Read more..Does Twitter Fit into Your Branding Strategy?
Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 7 Comments »
Twitter, often referred to as the water cooler of the Internet, teaches us the art of brevity by limiting communication to 140 characters or less. But unless you can compress ... Read more..Caught in the Current of Writer River: Building and Participating in Community-Driven Websites
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
A couple of years ago I went through a Digg phase. I listened to the Diggnation podcast and set my home page to the most popular posts of the day ... Read more..SEO Tips for Your Blog — Wordcamp Utah
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 6 Comments »
Ash Buckles presented on "SEO tips for Your Blog" at Wordcamp Utah. Here are my notes from Ash's presentation. Strategy and Purpose Ash says, You need a strategy with search engine optimization ... Read more..Leaning Towards Longer Topics and Shorter TOCs
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 6 Comments »
Everyone knows it's a good practice to chunk your help material into discrete topics, but how granular should you chunk it? Take a look at this Microsoft Word 2007 help topic ... Read more..Too Connected – Utopias and Dystopias of Communication
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Web 2.0, twitters | 13 Comments »
Some people feel that the ability to connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime is one of the utopias the Internet brings. For any question you have, the answer is a keystroke ... Read more..Technical Writer as Conversation Stopper, and Other Notes from the STC Summit in Philadelphia
Saturday, June 7th, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 33 Comments »
On the eve of the highlight conference of the year, I'm out with two colleagues at a grill in Philadelphia, and the waitress is chit-chatting with us more than usual ... Read more..Follow the STC Conference Twitterers at http://twemes.com/stc2008
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Blogging | 4 Comments »
Twemes.com is a service that aggregates tweets that have the same tag. A handful of twitterers at the STC Conference are tagging their tweets with #stc2008. If you go to ... Read more..Post Doc-Train Thoughts While Sitting in the Vancouver Airport
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 14 Comments »
Doc Train has ended, and I'm sitting at the Vancouver airport waiting for my airplane. Lots of thoughts are coming to my head, in no particular order. I interviewed about 12 ... Read more..Twitter Tools and Uses: The Most Comprehensive Listing of Twitter Resources I’ve Seen
Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Posted in Blogging | 3 Comments »
I just ran across the most comprehensive list of Twitter resources and other Twitter advice here: Twitter Tools, Tweaks, and Theories, by John Unger. So far I'm only using Twhirl ... 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 | 8 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..Seven Reasons Why I’m Twittering — Especially During Conference Time
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 8 Comments »
When I first heard about Twitter, I thought it was the dumbest thing in the world, a fad that would quickly disappear. But it didn't, and now that I've learned ... Read more..