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Tech Writer This Week for May 31, 2012

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We try to put a worthy final touch on the STC Summit 2012 with notes and commentary from Sarah Maddox (ffeathers.wordpress.com), Ellis Pratt (cherryleaf.com) and Val Swisher (contentrules.com). It's the next best thing to being there yourself. Tom Johnson talks wiki and alternatives, while Gurpreet Singh recommends LinkedIn groups. Content Strategy posts get philosophical, and career advice focuses on refining and formatting the resume. Continue reading ...

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LavaCon Session Summary: Lightning Talks – Multiple Speakers

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The LavaCon 2011 Lightning Talk session comprised six speakers, chosen to present in random order, who had ten minutes to present a topic of interest that is important in the field technical communication, including social media, wikis and XML, performing demos, certification, and the future of the field. Similar to the lightning talks at the STC Annual Summit in 2011, the LavaCon Lightning Talks took place without the strict ten-minute time period, twenty slide limit, or automatic advancing of slides. Continue reading ...

Book Review: Wiki: Grow Your Own for Fun and Profit

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My boss sent me on a Quest to reorganize the Company wiki. Before I started, I set out to arm myself with success stories from others who had gone on before. Fortunately for me, XML Press had just released a new book on the subject. A couple of emails later, and I had in my hot little laptop one of the first ePub releases XML Press ever published. With the book Wiki: Grow Your Own for Fun and Profit, Alan Porter set himself an ambitious goal: To introduce the concept of wikis and the benefits a wiki provides without losing his reader in a maze of technology. Continue reading ...