Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Textbooks of the Future: Free & Collaborative
I have been talking to SJ Klein regularly via email and phone for my work on the wiki pages and kid’s user manual for the XO laptop for One Laptop Per Child, so I was excited to hear him speak and meet...
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Reading lists for technical writing
As a graduate student in scientific and technical communication, I was fortunate to have been introduced to many texts for learning technical writing at Miami University in Ohio. I have kept those...
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BookSprint for Floss Manuals writing for the XO and Sugar
I’ve been busy lately working on plans for a Floss Manuals BookSprint. A BookSprint is a week-long concentrated effort of technical writers getting together to create a manual for free, libre open...
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BookSprint Laps
What is a continuation of a BookSprint called? I’m not sure what to call it, nor do I know which metaphors might fit, but there has been some additional energy emanating from the Austin-based OLPC...
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Adobe AIR for an interactive children’s story book
Storybook Anytime is a Flash and Adobe AIR website for kids to have their own stories in a library. It’s a great example of Adobe AIR, a technology I’m curious about for online help use. Here’s a few...
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Create your own innovation council
From Joann Hackos’ book, Information Development: Managing Your Documentation Projects, Portfolio, and People, Google Books shows this quote: Excellent information design requires exposure to design...
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Creative Commons is so cool
The two photos on my book cover are licensed with the Share-Alike and Attribution Creative Commons license, which means that as long as the book cover created with those photos is also shared for...
View ArticleFLOSS Manuals interview for the Puget Sound STC chapter newsletter
Robert Reynolds contacted me requesting an interview for the STC Puget Sound chapter newsletter. It was published in PDF form, Writing for Free/Libre Open Source Software, but with permission, I’m...
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Booki in the running for a Drumbeat Award
Adam Hyde, founder of FLOSS Manuals, the community documentation group that makes open docs for open source, just announced some exciting news on the FLOSS Manuals Discuss list. …we got booki into the...
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