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“Wiki Roundtripping? Structured Authoring? How Do They Co-Exist?”
24 Ways to Shut Down The Application and Other Apocryphal Stories
A Comparison of Three Visual Help Authoring Tools
Beyond L10N and G11N—Communicating with Everybody
Breathing Life into your Technical Documents using Adobe AIR and the Technical Communication Suite
Bringing the Video Revolution to Technical Communication
Changing the Rules of the Game for the Benefit of the User
Document Engineering in User Experience Design
Documentation Planning and Library Design in a Web 2.0 World
Extending the Value of Content in Enterprise Systems with Web Content Management
How an Author and Editor Used a Wiki to Write a Book
Living Multiple Lives: The New Technical Communicator
Making XML Technology Accessible
Manage Your Messaging with Machine-Assisted Editing and Large Scale Sentence-level Reuse
Mapping the Entire Global Content Supply Chain
On the Road to Modular Training Content
Once Content is in XML. Now what?
Putting Everything Back Together Again
See Dynamic Publishing in Action!
Taking Our Information Assets to the Next Level
The In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite for Microsoft Word and SharePoint
Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML and DITA
Understanding Component Content Management
Using Collaborative Tools for Virtual Team Management
Using Task Modeler to Streamline DITA Content Development
What Technical Communicators Need to Know about Flash
Wikis Are Wonderful, or Are They? A Real World Story of Using Wikis For User Information
Writing Reusable Content to Support Content Models
[Workshop] Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML
[Workshop] An Overview of RoboHelp 7
[Workshop] Content Engineering
[Workshop] DITA Authoring and Publishing with XMetaL
[Workshop] Introduction to XSL
[Workshop] Making DITA Work For Your Data
[Workshop] Simplified Technical English
[Workshop] Single Sourcing with the Technical Communication Suite
Session Details
Meet the Bloggers: Not Nearly as Disasterously Funny as the Movie
Speaker: Anne Gentle & Darren Barefoot & Scott Nesbitt & Aaron Davis & Tom JohnsonTime: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Date: May 7
Track: Blogs and Wikis
Experience level: All levels
Room: Pinnacle Ballroom 3
Learn about intersections of blogging, information development and architecture, and just plain technical writing from writers who are producing blogs with technical communications in mind. In this panel discussion, several bloggers talk about web logs, subscription feeds, and RSS, describe blogging from their perspective, and discuss the organic growth of user communities and documentation. Each blogger has a different view point and all come from varied backgrounds and job titles. Hear stories about blogging and connect with the people whose posts you read. Ask questions about writing, content wrangling, being barefoot, or wikis.
This session will be facilitated by Anne Gentle, a tech writer and blog specialist who regularly blogs about technical communication at JustRightClick. Joining her are Tom Johnson of I’d Rather Be Writing, Darren Barefoot with the ever popular self-named blog, Darren Barefoot, The Content Wrangler himself, Scott Abel, and Scott Nesbitt and Aaron Davis who write a group blog at DMN Communications Blog.
Panelists will address these and other questions:
- I find that I have to remember that not every one has read every single post I ever wrote. So when I get a question that I’’ve already answered, I’m guilty of thinking, “Didn’t you read that in my blog?” What types of things do you think everyone should know about you that are related to your blog?
- How risky is blogging? How do you mitigate the risks?
- How has blogging helped you explain technical information to customers?
- How has blogging helped you have conversations with customers?
- What’’s the most sticky technical issue you’’ve had to resolve for your blog?
- Do you believe in the “build an online brand” concept of blogging? How have you done an online brand? What has your online brand done for you?
- How important is Search Engine Optimization when blogging?
- What is the relationship between blogging and journalism?
- Do you make any money as a direct result of your blog?
- What are some of the indirect results of your blogging?
- What was your biggest mistake with your blog and what did you do to correct it?
- And finally, what’s after blogging?
