"Hallo Arnold
Looking forward to meeting you at STC Summit! This will be my first time in Chicago and my first time at STC Summit. It looks like a great event, with great people.
See you soon,
Sarah"
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Knowledge management and technical communication
Started this discussion. Last reply by Daniel Archer May 7. 8 Replies 1 Like
I'm wondering how many technical communication teams work hand in glove with a knowledge management team within the organisation. That could be a very rewarding relationship for both teams. If you…Continue
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Beta-testing a new text processor for iPad and iPhone
Started Apr 19 0 Replies 2 Likes
I've spent the last week…Continue
New book about wikis, tech comm and chocolate
Started this discussion. Last reply by Sarah Maddox Feb 25. 2 Replies 2 Likes
I'm excited to let everyone know that my new book is now available on Amazon.com and…Continue
New book about open source contributions - Open Advice
Started Feb 20 0 Replies 1 Like
This book looks pretty interesting: Open Advice - FOSS: What We Wish We Had Known When We Started. It's a collection of articles by well-known…Continue
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See you at STC Summit 2012
It’s just a few days away now! STC Summit ’12 is the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication in the United States. I’m looking forward to greeting old friends and meeting a number of people that I’ve chatted to on Twitter, blogs, and other online places. There’ll be plenty of excellent presentations and [...]
How long does it take to write a book
A number of people have asked me how long it took to write my book, and how much of that time was spent on the actual writing. Luckily I’d thought it would be interesting to know that myself, so I recorded my time from the very beginning of the project. Thank you to Peter Maddox [...]
Recording of webinar about Confluence wiki, collaboration and technical communication
Yesterday I presented a Scriptorium webcast titled “Collaboration: A hands-on demo using Confluence wiki“. The kind folks at Scriptorium have made a recording of the webinar available, and I’ve uploaded my slides too. This presentation is about collaboration and what it means to technical communicators, and how we can use a wiki to enhance the [...]
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Sarah Maddox replied to Arnold Burian's discussion Site admin changes"Thanks Craig, TWW is great. Good luck with your new opportunities!
Cheers, Sarah"
Daniel Archer replied to Sarah Maddox's discussion Knowledge management and technical communication"I wouldn't have pictured it as a great fit for social network stuff either, but Microsoft is pushing it really hard in 2010. They've done a nice job with both the feature set and with integrating the features into the overall workflow, so…"
Sarah Maddox replied to Sarah Maddox's discussion Knowledge management and technical communication"Hallo Andrew
Cool! Knowledge management is such a huge role - you must be swamped, even in a small company. Will your user guides be visible to customers, and do you have a good feeling for the overlap of knowledge management in terms of internal…"
Sarah Maddox replied to Sarah Maddox's discussion Knowledge management and technical communication"Hallo Daniel
It will be good to see what the outcome is of the move to SharePoint. I've used it in two previous roles, and in both cases I managed the documentation on part of the SP site. SP has its strengths, particularly because it is very…"
Andrew Eccles replied to Sarah Maddox's discussion Knowledge management and technical communication"Hi Sarah,
I am the technical communicator and the knowledge manager. Our company is still relatively small hence the combination of these roles. Currently I'm moving all our documents from a dedicated document management system, KnowledgeTree,…"
Daniel Archer replied to Sarah Maddox's discussion Knowledge management and technical communication"I don't right now, but I'd love to. Let me know if your research turns up any ideas on kick-starting this.
The closest thing we've got is an effort to migrate the entire company to SP 2010, which is supposed to facilitate better…"
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Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 7:06am on June 14, 2011,
Eddie VanArsdall said… Sarah, thanks for your friend request. I'm honored to be your friend. :-)
Cheers,
Eddie
- At 7:27pm on June 14, 2011, Sarah Maddox said…
- Oh great, thanks Eddie! I'm honoured too. :)
- At 8:01pm on October 24, 2011,
Peg Mulligan said… Great to connect here, Sarah...Looking forward to checking out so many great discussions, about the wiki in tech comm, especially--an area I've always been interested in, but don't know much more than the basics...Your posts generated such detailed responses and were so insightful.
- At 8:52am on December 2, 2011,
Anindita Basu said… oh gosh, I was/am travelling and didnt see your message till now. Sorry for the delayed response. I feel honoured being on your list :)
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