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Your Docs: Thought About Adaptability?

There’s usability, accessibility, and readability that we’re all well aware of. I’d like to toss… [more]

Proposal: Expand Use of Tech Comm Hashtags

Hashtags have long been an integral component of Twitter. They offer much: ability to sort tweets into… [more]

5 Reasons to Write Procedures in Twitter

Recently, I’ve been exploring the need for writing procedures in real-time, focusing on Twitter in… [more]

7 Ways to Keep Up With Trends

Two facts: we have to try and keep up with all the changes in IT, and we don’t have much time, if any,… [more]

My Blog’s One-Year Anniversary: A Retrospective & Lessons Learned

My blog is a year old. Yea! At this important milestone, it seems appropriate to take a moment and look… [more]

Think Outside the Computer: Touchscreens, HTML5, & Flash

Touchscreens are here to stay. Computers as we know them are gone already. Really. It’s time to fast-track… [more]

Tweets!

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Amazon: Kindle Books Now Outselling Hardcovers http://bit.ly/bUpTWj about 10 days ago
RT @rjhoughton: RT @sharonburton: My thoughts on #TechComm #STC certification. http://anthrobytes.wordpress.com about 12 days ago
@kemulholland Thanks for the #FF recommendation! about 13 days ago

Twitter Discussion Experiment

I held a Twitter real-time discussion experiment on Friday, July 9th at 10 am PDT. We used the #TCdisc and #TCexp hashtags. Related posts:

Background Information

Twitter Real-time Discussion Experiment

Lessons Learned

Twitter Discussion Experiment: Lessons Learned

Remember: You can continue to add tweets; just use the hashtags noted above. Also, feel free to comment on posts here and on Facebook page.

Thanks to all that participated! It wouldn't have happened without your thoughts and input. It sure went fast, and sure was interesting.

#MagicHappens

It seems like something new comes out just about every day. In this section, I'll post some items that I think are worth thinking about, as in: how can I use these for docs?

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There are plenty of ideas in this video that can be applied to docs. Run this in full-screen mode and let your imagination take over.

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Computing isn't just about sitting at a desk using a mouse and keyboard anymore. The following article shows examples of new ways to access computers using body movement and other methods.

New Tech Moves Beyond the Mouse, Keyboard, and Screen (CNN)

Think Outside the Computer: Touchscreens, HTML5, and Flash

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Thanks to a tweet by Tristan David Bishop (@KnowledgeBishop), I found out about this app, which takes a Twitter feed and makes a custom newspaper for it. Imagine how you might use this with your existing doc feeds. Why not put a tech support feed in a page? I think I'll need to experiment a bit myself, but in the meantime, take a look.

Read Twitter as a Newspaper

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Touchscreens, touchscreens, touchscreens. You've already seen them on iPhones and iPads in particular. But what about ones that are bendable and rolled up? Yep. It's possible. Look at this article.

Touchable Screens Get Touchy-Feely