Twittering Tips for Beginners – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com. Best part: I found one rule, though, that answered a long-standing question I had about Twitter: “Don’t tweet about what you’re doing right now.” Which is weird, since that’s precisely how the typing box at Twitter.com is labeled: “What are you doing?” David Pogue is one of the speakers at the upcoming STC Summit.

In this poll, I’m trying to find out what blogging software is available to technical communicators in the workplace (for publishing product information, building user communities, and doing other work-related tasks — not personal publishing). It’s a short, one-question poll. If you have any additional comments to add, please add them in the comments section below the post. Thanks. Online Surveys & Market Research

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

DocTrain East, day two by Communications from DMN.

According to Study, Half of U.S. Adults Use Social Media – ReadWriteWeb.

Update: I have since revised the writerriver.com site with a different implementation. This new version is more like Twitter than Digg. The concepts are still mostly the same, except there’s no voting. I’ve been a long-time reader of Digg.com, but just last week it dawned on me that it would be really great if there were a Digg-like site for technical communication. So I decided … more »