Archive for the ‘Information management’ Category
Argument for Agile Tech Writing
A tech writing team for 21st century software development—whether an in-house tech writer, freelance writer, or independent contractor—needs to adopt the same spirit, structure and methodologies of an Agile software development team. Each writer needs to live by the basic tenets of Agile development: (1) Interact directly with customers and developers to support and communicate [...]
November 13, 2011
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Tags: Agile writing, technical writing · Posted in: Information, Information management, Knowledge management, technical communicator
The DocMashup
One valuable instance of a Knowledge Mashup is the concept of a documentation mashup, or DocMashup—a name that brevity and convention demands. Basically, this type of knowledge mashup serves as an aggregation of content from all resource types near and far for a product or service, including the importing and updating of the traditional static [...]
February 17, 2010
· Michael Hiatt · One Comment
Posted in: Content Strategist, DocMashup, documentation mashup, Information, Information management, Knowledge management, knowledge mashup, Mashups, technical communicator
The Mashstream Projects
Building Cloud Computing and Communication Tools and Processes by Michael Hiatt @ Mashstream.com At Mashstream.com, we are taking it to the virtual streets. We are joining the egalitarian revolution of open web protocols, open cloud development practices, open data streaming, open information sharing, and open global markets. Now is the time to take the theoretical [...]
January 30, 2010
· Michael Hiatt · 3 Comments
Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Data, Semantic Web
Competing in the Information Age
Competition drives all life on Earth. It is the invisible hand of markets and the engine of evolution. In our economic world, we see the traditional competition for jobs: Younger employees versed in new technologies forcing out workers with older skills, experienced employees competing with new graduates for fewer jobs, new technologies and services driving [...]
December 11, 2009
· Michael Hiatt · 9 Comments
Posted in: Cloud Computing, Content Strategist, Contextual Data, Information Age, Information management, Knowledge management, Mashups, technical communicator
Adapting to the Information Age
The times they are a changin’. I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan lately. My fifteen year-old son finds him cool. It’s a strange revolving world. Regardless of my motives, the Bob prediction of the ‘60s reappears 50 years later with the same growing urgency. Socially, economically, and technologically, the symptoms and repercussions [...]
December 7, 2009
· Michael Hiatt · 2 Comments
Tags: Content Strategist, democratic mercantilism, Information Age, technical communicator · Posted in: Content Strategist, Information, Information Age, Information management, Knowledge management, Real-Time Web, Semantic Web
Evolving as a Content Strategist
The Age of Information is here. The economic, political, and global landscape is changing quickly. As web programmers and information developers (or those with shared skills), we search for a way to survive and prosper. We know that we need to recreate ourselves to be self-sustaining, innovative, and adaptable. We fight fears of corporate downsizing [...]
November 30, 2009
· Michael Hiatt · 9 Comments
Posted in: Cloud Computing, Content Strategist, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups
Meshing Information and Mashing Functionality
Linked Data and Mashups rely on open standards to integrate information and furnish collaborative features, but differ on their uses and the intricacies of combining disparate data and features to build new functionality from cloud resources. Both provide emerging standards to provide content and shared applications for readers/users from existing Web resources coupled with proprietary [...]
November 24, 2009
· Michael Hiatt · 2 Comments
Tags: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web, single-source authoring · Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Ontologies, Semantic Web
The Myth of Single-Source Authoring
Single-source publishing is a zombie idea that revives itself periodically and refuses to stay dead. Its zombie supporters chant its purported benefits as a “write once, publish to many” promise and ploddingly follow it as their ultimate goal for mechanized authoring and machine translation. As an object-oriented writing methodology, it is as human as present-day [...]
November 18, 2009
· Michael Hiatt · 25 Comments
Tags: knowledge mashups, Linked data, single-sourc authoring, Single-source publications · Posted in: Contextual Data, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Single-source publishing
Shotgun Communication
For many organizations, delivery of information about emerging products and services is undisciplined and chaotic. A mix of relevant, irrelevant, and erroneous content ends up scattered across the Web and overlaps from page to page, author to author, and medium to medium. With this shooting-from-the-hip delivery, information arrives as diffused and insulated content from the [...]
November 5, 2009
· Michael Hiatt · 6 Comments
Tags: Information management, knowlege management, Linked data · Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data
Knowledge from the Cloud
Searching for relevant information on the Web is both breathtaking and exhausting. With a single phrase you can generate a list of thousands of references that overwhelm the human intellect. To get just the right information, Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Wolfram Alpha, and other search engines devise algorithms to answer each query based on their interpretation [...]
November 3, 2009
· Michael Hiatt · 3 Comments
Tags: cloud, Knowledge, Linked data, Web knowledge · Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Information management, Knowledge, Semantic Web