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  • 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..

    Review of Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation

    Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

    [amazon-product align="right"]0982219113[/amazon-product] One of the perks about being a blogger is that authors occasionally send me their books to review. Recently Anne Gentle sent me her new book, [amazon-product type="text" text="Conversation ... Read more..

    Converting Lurkers into Contributors in Online Communities — Nielsen’s 90-9-1 Rule

    Thursday, August 20th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

    Jakob Nielsen explains that with web 2.0 communities, 90% are lurkers who never contribute, 9% contribute a little, and 1% actively contribute. I wish I knew the secret formula for ... Read more..

    Idea Management – Innovation Managment – Crowdsourcing – Suggestion Box

    Sunday, February 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

    Idea Management - Innovation Managment - Crowdsourcing - Suggestion Box. This is a neat online app that allows people to vote ideas up or down. Read more..

    Merging Worlds: DITA and WordPress

    Sunday, February 8th, 2009 Posted in Web 2.0, WordPress | 9 Comments »

    The DITA-to-WordPress importer tool allows you to import the XHTML output from the DITA Open Toolkit as pages into WordPress. This  importer (created by Mike Little, a brilliant developer who ... Read more..

    Web 2.0: The Tipping Point for XML (application/pdf)

    Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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    Company blogging 101

    Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

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    A Collection of 40 Awesome Web 2.0 Navigations

    Sunday, January 11th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

    A Collection of 40 Awesome Web 2.0 Navigations Read more..

    Get Satisfaction – People-Powered Customer Service

    Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

    Get Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service Very cool site for reviewing/complaining/praising, etc. companies. Read more..

    THE CONTENT POOL: Move over DITA – Chaos is coming!

    Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

    THE CONTENT POOL: Move over DITA – Chaos is coming! Read more..