The Magic of Touchscreens and HTML5

This grabbed me yesterday. The info I want to discuss is longer than a tweet, shorter than a regular blog post, but I just have to get this out until I can start testing it. So – here’s an interim thought. Just can’t drop everything to think about this at the moment. If nothing else, be [...]

(1-Yr Archive) The Future: Doc Management

Yes, everything has changed. These posts relate more to documentation planning and management, and ways to keep up with changes. Changes These posts cover my thoughts on managing the new methods and changes. Let’s Reinvent Technical Writing A New Doc Strategy The Changing Role of Writers and Editors Methods Keep up. Keep up. Keep up. [...]

(1-Yr Archive) New Writing Methodologies

Tech writing is changing, has changed, and the old ways won’t work any longer. Many of my posts over the past year address those considerations. Here they are. Writing Styles Smaller screens. Smaller devices. Smaller word counts, don’t you think? Think Mobile When You Write Cut, Cut, Cut Your Content and Procedures Video and Touchscreens [...]

(1-Yr Archive) Writing Procedures in Twitter

I ran a series of posts about the effect that real-time is having on documentation. Real-time is, of course, changing everything, and impacts documentation as well. As part of research, I tested some procedures in Twitter to see what would happen. The emphasis was on dealing with a “crisis” situation – one in which immediate [...]

(1-Yr Archive) Fav Post: Might We Become Walking Computers?

I’m going to be going through my archives from my first year (see other post) and present some again. This archive post is a definite peek at the future. I had been reading about cool technologies either in place or  in development. The post ties it all together, envisioning a time where we wear different [...]

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 back over this past year. I’ve learned quite a bit, have enjoyed it immensely, and am looking forward to implementing my plans for the future. I’ll give a quick background, a development timeline, highlights, negatives, [...]

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 the planning for delivering docs and content to these types of devices. Forget a laptop or netbook. I have a computer I can fit in a pocket. That would be my iPhone. I look at it as [...]