The following is a guest post by Shay Shaked. I’ve been messing around with Google Plus for about two weeks now. It occurred to me, after reading Tom Johnson’s latest post about content strategy and listening to his podcast about the same topic, that Google Plus is, perhaps unintentionally, the best professional social network with Continue Reading »
Tag Archives: Web 2.0
Moving from Google Reader to Twitter Hashtags
On my smartphone, I used to have Google Reader as one of my four quicklinks on the bottom toolbar. I recently replaced it with Twitter Topic, an app that shows all tweets that meet a specific hashtag. For example, if I’m interested in reading about other experiences at Confab, I’ll search for the #confab topic. Continue Reading »
Collaborative Posts Q&A
Kristi Leach interviewed me for a quick Q&A about the occasional collaborative posts that I do on this site. You can read the interview on Kristi’s site, Why Tech Comm. Here’s an excerpt: When I was deciding on a format for my workshop, Grassroots Documentation Testing, I thought of Tom Johnson’s collaborative posts on his Continue Reading »
Participatory Economics: Are Companies Budgeting for Social Media?
A podcast summary by David Armano from Edelman caught my attention yesterday. Armano writes: My theory is that social technologies and the online behaviors they enable leads to more participation from what use to be static audiences and “consumers”. But as a result of this, a demand is generated for participation to be reciprocated from Continue Reading »
Do community efforts work?
Some of my projects include community-involved documentation. When you work for a church, it’s not hard to find dedicated members willing and committed to sacrificing a few hours for a higher cause. To harness community efforts, I gathered up a large pool of volunteer names and formed a listserv. I communicated project needs with the Continue Reading »
Paper.li as an Alternative to Google Reader [Screencast]
To find good content online, I find that I’m going less and less to Google Reader and more to sources like Paper.li, an automated content curation tool that filters out some of the content noise. The problem with Google Reader is lack of content curation. You get a ton of noise, regardless of how fine-tuned Continue Reading »
Removing Inline Links to Increase Readability
In the unfolding saga of inline links within posts and the decline in readability that these links bring about, Adriel Hampton’s post helped me persuade me more to this idea. Hamptom quotes from Nicholas Carr’s book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains. Carr writes, (In a 2001 study) one group read Continue Reading »
Lavacon’s Web 2.0 Conference Website
Lavacon is a yearly conference Jack Molisani puts together on professional development for technical communicators. This year’s conference focuses on social media. You can’t run a conference on social media without having a cool-looking social media driven website, right? So Jack contacted me to help make the Lavacon conference site more of a web 2.0 Continue Reading »
Podcast: Documentation in the Cloud
Download MP3 Length: 80 min. In this podcast, Michael Hiatt at mashstream.com presents to the STC Intermountain chapter on documentation in the cloud. By documentation in the cloud, he’s referring to our move to the web of everything we do on the computer — the running of applications, the saving of our data, the way Continue Reading »
Fragmented Communities and the Chapter/SIG Web Site Problem
Recently Will Sansbury and I gave a webinar to STC community leaders on chapter and SIG websites. Rather than giving a static, one-way presentation about theoretical concepts with web design, or boring people with technical details they probably didn’t care about, we held the webinar more like a design review workshop, not too different from Continue Reading »