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It’s In The Mix: The Next Generation Of Open Source Publishing

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler and The Content Wrangler Community

The remix. It used to be a term used purely to describe different renditions of the same dance tune. Now, it’s a term creeping into our daily lives in a variety of new ways made possible by recent ...

Filed under: Content Management : Content Reuse : Publishing : User-Generated Content : Wikis : Use Cases

Plain English Videos From Common Craft Make Understanding New Technology Easy

Sunday, August 31, 2008

I can’t say enough good things about The Common Craft Show and their excellent video series designed to help regular, ordinary humans understand technological topics. Take a few minutes and view a few of the most popular selections below. Then, share them with ...

Filed under: Technological Innovation : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation : Web 2.0

Twing.com: Searching Online Forums and Communities Just Got Easier

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Twing.com, a powerful new search engine dedicated to finding information within forums and communities, today announced it’s taken the ‘beta’ label off its logo. “Initial response to our product has been great and after making changes based on feedback along with ...

Filed under: Content Reuse : Marketing Communication : RSS : Technological Innovation : User-Generated Content

Content Remix: Floss Manuals Provides Community Technology, Community Writing

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Many technical writers, content managers and information architects work on software development teams, or at least tangentially to them. You may have heard of Google’s Summer of Code or BarCamp or PodCamp and wondered, like Janet Swisher did at A Techie Tech Writer, ...

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

User-Generated Content, Time-Saving Tools, and Dance Music Djs: Slide Decks From The STC Summit

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

As a convenience to our readers—and to those who attended the Society for Technical Communication Summit in Philadelphia this week—I’ve published the slide decks for three of my presentations here. If you have questions about any of the presentations, send me an email. ...

Filed under: About The Content Wrangler : Content Management : Music : User-Generated Content

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 ...