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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

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

Managing Small Content: Counting Characters

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

by Anne Gentle, technical writer and blogger at JustWriteClick

I received a copy of The 4-Hour Workweek, a book by Tim Ferriss, at the holidays last year and read it with interest because I’ve heard many others in the high-tech world discuss it at length. In it, he ...

Filed under: Internet : Marketing Communication : Search : Wikis

NYK Europe: Wiki Keeps International Shipping Firm on Course

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

By Stewart Mader, special to The Content Wrangler

Can a wiki help ships’ crews and freight truck drivers keep in touch with what’s happening in the home office? That’s one of the questions I discussed with Alek Lotoczko of NYK Europe, part of the Japan- based NYK ...

Filed under: Wikis : Use Cases

Stewart Mader: The Wiki Master

Saturday, May 17, 2008

There’s not many humans on the planet that know more about wikis that Stewart Mader. Wherever folks are talking about wiki technology, you’ll find Mader, explaining how wikis work, how to get folks to use them, how to govern them, and how to use them to solve various ...

Filed under: Wikis

5 Reasons The “Wikipedia Secret Mailing List” Isn’t A Big Dealhttp://www.ikiw.org

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

By Stewart Mader, special to The Content Wrangler

There’s been a dust-up in the past few days about an alleged secret mailing list that some administrators on Wikipedia were using to privately communicate without getting input from the larger community.

To quote: ...

Filed under: Wikis

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

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