There are so many videos on YouTube that it may seem overwhelming to find some of interest to you. There’s an easy way to always find videos you like. Companies, bands, and others set up channels for their videos. You can subscribe to them so they’re easily accessible for you, and you can set it [...]
Video Search Stories: a New Doc Option and Example
December 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
I have video on my mind. After seeing the Google Zeitgeist 2010 video last week, I decided to try to make one myself. After pondering it over the weekend and determining content, I made a short “search story” in Google. It’s only 35 seconds long. It covers basic information about #tcchat. My real goal is [...]
Social Media: User Input & Communication Styles
August 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
Recently I attended a webinar hosted by @MarketingProfs that discussed social media at Cisco. The presenter was @LaSandraBrill. What follows are some thoughts I had following the webinar. Some of the points discussed in the presentation led me to think about certain topics more; that’s what I’m including here. These thoughts and opinions are all, [...]
Your Docs: Thought About Adaptability?
July 7, 2010 By 2 Comments
There’s usability, accessibility, and readability that we’re all well aware of. I’d like to toss in one more to the mix: adaptability. By this I mean the ability to change docs on the fly to accommodate real-time actions in social media or due to user-generated content that needs to be addressed rather quickly. How adaptable [...]
The Magic of Touchscreens and HTML5
May 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Think Outside the Computer: Touchscreens, HTML5, & Flash
May 5, 2010 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Legal Requirements in the New Age
July 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
With the recent news this past week about a woman being sued $50K for a tweet she wrote and the resultant backlash on the company that was suing, it started me thinking about legal ramifications of using social media for business. I’m all for using social media as part of an overall tech doc strategy, [...]
Might We Become Walking Computers?
July 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
What do an article in Wired magazine about attaching a sensor to your running shoe and uploading it via iPod for data analysis, a camping trip, an article about wearing video screens, a scientist husband, a discussion about wildlife parks, office work, and work by a W3C working group have in common? If you can [...]
Wikipedia to Add Editable Video Functionality
June 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Game over. Print is on its way out. I just read an article about Wikipedia adding video functionality down the road that will enable people to edit videos. I’ve been figuring that video is key, and that people would take some video already made, come up with their own version, and post it somewhere. I’ve [...]
Use of Flexible Screens in Documentation
June 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Lately, I’ve come across two articles about flexible screens. One is for small touch screens, the other is about video. What’s particularly interesting about the video flexible screens is that the article in Technology Review states that there is a possibility that such screens could be “worn on wrists, and plastered on clothes.” Now imagine [...]
