Articles

The Architecture of Participation: What Do You Think? Where Does Participation Fit?

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

I’m re-reading a great book, The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. The book, now in it’s third release in so many years, explores how the Internet, the World Wide Web, XML, and related technologies have made the world a much smaller place...a place in which knowledge ...

Filed under: Experience Design : Technological Innovation : User-Generated Content : Web 2.0

Getting to First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Technical communication and marketing guru Darren Barefoot is the co-author of a new ebook with Julie Szabo entitled, Getting to First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook. It’s a “must-read” for any serious web professional. The book will help you understand how ...

Filed under: Blogs & Blogging : Marketing Communication : Podcasts : Social Networking : User-Generated Content

Wikis For Documentation? Anne Gentle Provides Some Examples

Friday, November 09, 2007

Wikis are web-based publishing tools that provide collaborative authoring capabilities to anyone with appropriate editing permission and a web browser connected to the internet. While the most popular wiki is by far Wikipedia, these browser-based tools are increasingly ...

Filed under: Technical Writing : User-Generated Content : Wikis

Documentation and Training Slide Decks Now Available

Thursday, November 08, 2007

The slide decks from Documentation and Training East 2007 are now available. A few speakers have yet to share their slides, but the bulk of the presentations are available for view within a web browser, and without the need to download additional software. This service ...

Filed under: 3D : Content Quality Management : Content Reuse : DITA : Document Engineering : Dynamic Content : Experience Design : Information Architecture : Localization : Mobile Content : Presentations : Publishing : Rich Media : S1000D : Search : Simplified Technical English : Software as a Service : Technical Writing : Translation : Usability : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation : Web 2.0 : XML : XQuery : Web Content Management

Video Documentation: Seven Sites That Show You How To Do Things

Monday, October 29, 2007

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a video worth? This is a particularly important question to ask (and answer), especially if your job involves communicating complex concepts or developing training or education ...

Filed under: Rich Media : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation

Are You Linked In? If Not, You Should Be

Friday, June 15, 2007

We’ve been busy building a network of professional communication and content management contacts with the help of a great social networking tool called Linked In. For the uninitiated, Linked In is an online network of more than 11 million professionals that provides ...

Filed under: Marketing Communication : User-Generated Content

Semapedia.org - Tagging The Mobile Semantic Web

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Semapedia is a Web 2.0 service that we think has many useful applications. It was designed to help people connect their virtual and physical worlds. To do this, users create Semapedia Tags—cellphone-readable hyperlinks to online content from (for now) Wikipedia, or one ...

Filed under: User-Generated Content : Web 2.0

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