Archive for the ‘technical communicator’ 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
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Posted in: Content Strategist, DocMashup, documentation mashup, Information, Information management, Knowledge management, knowledge mashup, Mashups, technical communicator
A New Year in the Information Age
Hope everyone had a happy new year and fine holiday season all across the world. Like many where I reside, I have been away from business and spending time with family while over-celebrating in this traditional party season of the west. But those are just good memories now (except for that episode where I missed [...]
January 4, 2010
· Michael Hiatt · One Comment
Posted in: Enlightenment, Information Age, Mashups, Post industrial age, protocol society, Real-Time Web, technical communicator
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