Seven deadly sins of blogging 1.0 Being fake (Sins of blogging) 1.1 Being irrelevant (Sins of blogging) 1.2 Being boring (Sins of blogging) 1.3 Being unreadable (Sins of blogging) ...
Last week I listened to David Peralty give feedback to Jeff Chandler about his WordPress Weekly and WPTavern.com projects (see episode 75). David praised the community and visibility that Jeff had created through his weekly podcast and forum, in addition to his WPTavern.com site, but noted that he was aware Jeff hadn't reached the monetization goals he hoped to achieve. In other words, Jeff has done a tremendous job at creating a communit...
If you work in a large corporate environment, you're familiar with restrictions about accessing production servers to make updates or additions to your help content. To touch anything on a production server, you have to go through the change release process, which requires a lot of paperwork and procedural hassle. Almost no project manager sees documentation as important enough to release a new version of the software into production on a...
The other week, while I was at the WebWorks Roundup conference in Texas, where I was one of the featured industry speakers, I was sitting next to Anne Gentle during one of the panel sessions, and I asked her about branding. It seems like once you become branded through your blog, it's hard to reinvent yourself. I was speaking at WebWorks on blogging and web 2.0. More than anything else, my blog has branded me as a blogger. This brand has...
Today is the start of both NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000 word novel in one month, whereas the goal of NaBloPoMo is to post every day for a month. NaBloPoMo started after NaNoWriMo, so NaNoWriMo has more of a defined purpose: National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing Novemb...
You can install WordPress locally on your computer if you're traveling or planning to be offline and you still want to work with WordPress. I also embedded this video in a WordPress wiki that I'm developing. Installing WordPress locally involves about 6 steps: Download and install Wampserver. Create a database in phpmyadmin. Add a user with privileges to the database. Download WordPress and extract to a folder in the www directory. Cust...
Seven deadly sins of blogging 1.0 Being fake (Sins of blogging) 1.1 Being irrelevant (Sins of blogging) 1.2 Being boring (Sins of blogging) 1.3 Being unreadable (Sins of blogging) ...
Recently I've been working on a simple calendar project that uses a wiki for documentation. Although I've heard a lot about using wikis for documentation, and have even used them in the past, I ran into a few surprises this time. 1. Authoring directly on a wiki screws up the history of updates. The way wikis work, every time someone makes an edit, it's recorded in a history for the page. When I write, I make a lot of little updates here a...
Seven deadly sins of blogging 1.0 Being fake (Sins of blogging) 1.1 Being irrelevant (Sins of blogging) 1.2 Being boring (Sins of blogging) 1.3 Being unreadable (Sins of blogging) ...
Seven deadly sins of blogging 1.0 Being fake (Sins of blogging) 1.1 Being irrelevant (Sins of blogging) 1.2 Being boring (Sins of blogging) 1.3 Being unreadable (Sins of blogging) ...
Seven deadly sins of blogging 1.0 Being fake (Sins of blogging) 1.1 Being irrelevant (Sins of blogging) 1.2 Being boring (Sins of blogging) 1.3 → Being unreadable (Sins of blogging) ...
Boagworld, a podcast on designing and developing websites, has a recent episode on innovation worth listening to whether you're into web design or not. Paul Boag gives good tips on the importance of play and experimentation as a method for innovation. He suggests that you challenge assumptions and ask questions, that you break up your work day with short periods of play. He then quotes Clay Shirky to say that If we all collectively watche...
I'm passing along a survey on behalf of The Content Wrangler and Millennium Consultants. They're trying to reach Framemaker users who want more integration with EMC Documentum. If you use FrameMaker as an authoring tool and Documentum as your content management system, take this brief survey and see if you quality for a test drive of Linked2, a plug-in to FrameMaker which acts as a bridge between FrameMaker and Documentum Server. Using Li...
Listen here: Last week I was up at BYU Idaho at a writing conference for students looking to enter professional writing. This is a recording of a panel I participated on with two other writers, Scott Cameron and Keith Harten. The three of us (two technical writers and one editor) answer questions from students for about an hour. For students looking to go into technical writing, editing, or other professional writing car...
Seven deadly sins of blogging 1.0 Being fake (Sins of blogging) 1.1 Being irrelevant (Sins of blogging) 1.2 → Being boring (Sins of blogging) 1.3 Being unreadable (Sins of blogging) ...
