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Pages at a glance -- the importance of the first two sentences of any topic
| Sep 15, 2018
Version 3.0 of my Documentation theme for Jekyll released
| Aug 13, 2015
Recording of Innovation in Technical Communication keynote at tcworld India 2015
| Mar 18, 2015
DocOps: Interview with Jim Turcotte
| Oct 21, 2014
Diverging Directions for Tech Comm: Social Media or Structured Authoring
| Jun 9, 2011
Arguments for and Against Tripane Help
| Mar 17, 2011
The Real Source of Findability
| Mar 10, 2011
Trends in Search Engine Optimization -- Shifting from Search to Social?
| Feb 28, 2011
I am perhaps finishing my basement, someday
| Feb 23, 2011
The Problem of Free and the Long Tail of Content Production
| Feb 7, 2011
WordPress Tip: Integrating a WordPress Blog into your Website
| Dec 9, 2010
Paper.li as an Alternative to Google Reader [Screencast]
| Oct 8, 2010
Emergence [Organizing Content #19]
| Jul 20, 2010
Does a Technical Writer Need to Understand Web Design?
| Jul 6, 2010
Designing from the Content/Story Out
| Jun 28, 2010
Embedded Links and Online Reading Accessibility: Whitney Quesenbery and Caroline Jarrett, #stc10
| May 7, 2010
What Would a WordPress Template for Chapter Sites Look Like?
| Feb 2, 2010
Fragmented Communities and the Chapter/SIG Web Site Problem
| Feb 1, 2010
Web Site Critique and WordPress Q&A Webinar This Thursday
| Jan 26, 2010
Implementing Google Custom Search on WordPress
| Jan 8, 2010
Site Critiques and WordPress Q&A -- Community Leaders Webinar Jan 28
| Dec 5, 2009
Why Help Authoring Tools Will Fade
| Nov 25, 2009
How to Incorporate Twitter into Your Presentation
| Nov 15, 2009
A Few Surprises in Using a Wiki for Documentation
| Oct 29, 2009
Being unreadable (Sins of blogging)
| Oct 17, 2009
Google Releases Sidewiki and Adds to the Growing Trend of Conversation
| Sep 29, 2009
Smashing Magazine Lists 10 Web Usability Guidelines
| Sep 27, 2009
New Content Strategy SIG
| Sep 27, 2009
Podcast with Anne Gentle about her Conversation and Community book
| Aug 26, 2009
Review of Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation
| Aug 24, 2009
Converting Lurkers into Contributors in Online Communities -- Nielsen's 90-9-1 Rule
| Aug 20, 2009
New York Times Starts a “What We're Reading” Section
| Jul 17, 2009
Interactive Google Map of Where I Work
| Jul 5, 2009
I Need Your Human Aggregated Content
| Jun 29, 2009
Real Projects for Entry-Level Writers Trying to Build Their Portfolios
| Jun 26, 2009
"What I'm Reading": A New Feature on My Site and a Tweak of Writer River
| Jun 24, 2009
Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting: Eight Characteristics to Attract Devoted Followers [Part I]
| Jun 14, 2009
WordPress Tip: “Crunching” and “Burning”
| Jun 6, 2009
GUI Magnets -- Prototyping User Interfaces with Simple Magnets
| May 13, 2009
Quick Reference Guides Right Where You Need Them
| Apr 9, 2009
AP Article Leads to "Helping Husbands and Fathers" Photo Project
| Apr 1, 2009
CSS-Tricks #1: Converting a Photoshop Mockup (part 1 of 3)
| Feb 23, 2009
Trends in Web Design Involving WordPress
| Feb 20, 2009
WordPress Tip: Merging Worlds: DITA and WordPress
| Feb 8, 2009
My STC Intercom Article about Writer River and Community-Driven Websites
| Jan 10, 2009
Good Designs Have Strong Contrast
| Jan 3, 2009
Twitter Part II –- One Step Deeper
| Dec 5, 2008
Guy Kawasaki's Alltop Site Now Includes Technical Writing
| Nov 29, 2008
Seamlessly Integrating a Blog into Your Non-Blog Website
| Oct 23, 2008
Another Collaborative Site: Read Scriptures Together
| Aug 27, 2008
Too Connected – Utopias and Dystopias of Communication
| Aug 18, 2008
Thank You Silahsiz Kuvvetler for Showing Me the Light
| Aug 3, 2008
WordPress Tip: Woopra — Enough Live Site Stats to Write a Dissertation
| Jul 8, 2008
My Compromise with SharePoint -- What Works and What Doesn't
| Jun 23, 2008
Customizing Your SharePoint Site? Read These 10 Concepts/Gotchas First
| Jun 21, 2008
Systems that Get Better the More People Use Them
| Jun 12, 2008
Announcing WriterRiver.com, a Digg-like Social News Site for Technical Communicators
| Jun 10, 2008
My First Guest Post -- And Best Writing Tip
| Jun 5, 2008
Podcast: Analyzing Your Users and Needs Before Creating the Help Deliverables; Interview with Nicky Bleiel
| May 31, 2008
Podcast: Document Engineering, Interview with Robert Glushko
| May 17, 2008
WordPress Tip: Using WordPress to Build Websites Instead of Blogs
| May 5, 2008
Seven Reasons Why I'm Twittering -- Especially During Conference Time
| Mar 17, 2008
How My BlackBerry May Benefit You
| Feb 27, 2008
Why You Should Send Me (and Other Bloggers) Your Products for Free
| Feb 20, 2008
Technical Writing Careers -- Answering 13 Questions about Technical Writing Jobs
| Feb 16, 2008
A Web 2.0 Documentation Idea Gone Wrong
| Feb 6, 2008
Clearplay: An Ingenious DVD Player That Filters Movies Without Altering Them
| Jan 28, 2008
How to Share Everything with Everyone (well, a few things anyway)
| Jan 18, 2008
How to Get Out of a Slump, and Handle Pressure Situations Calmly
| Jan 15, 2008
Online Anonymous Rating Sites: Empowering Individual Voices
| Nov 7, 2007
Cool Example of AJAX in a Blog -- Increases Usability
| Sep 15, 2007
Thoughts on the Accumulation of Stuff [Junk]
| Aug 20, 2007
Rethinking the Importance of Screenshots, Diagrams, and Other Visuals
| Aug 10, 2007
Resolving Browser Display Discrepancies Between IE and Firefox
| Jul 17, 2007
The Paradox of White Space: Some Research and Examples of White Space in Web Design
| Jul 9, 2007
Switching from Desktop to Online Tools
| Jul 3, 2007
Converting Your WordPress Blog into a CMS (Content Management System)
| Jul 1, 2007
Economic Prosperity Tied to Openness and Tolerance, says Richard Florida; Also, Thoughts on Inclusive, Distributed Leadership
| Jun 27, 2007
Search Engine Optimization for Your Blog: Three Easy Techniques, and also Drawbacks to SEO
| Jun 26, 2007
POPURLS -- Consolidated News Aggregation From Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Tailrank, Newsvine, and 20 Other Sites
| Jun 20, 2007
PostSecret -- a Postcard Confession Site, Fathers Theme
| Jun 17, 2007
Intro to Information Architecture -- Reflections on the Different Roles We Can Play
| Jun 16, 2007
Google Master Plan Video -- Speculations on the Hidden Purposes Behind Google's Information Collection
| Jun 13, 2007
Making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- Recommended Podcast
| Jun 6, 2007
Lip Dub Video Clip Captures Essence of the Web -- Spontaneity, Authenticity, Participation, Fun
| Jun 5, 2007
Vista Help Emphasizes Concepts in Effort to Create Power Users
| Jun 4, 2007
Google 411 -- Free Information Listings via Phone
| May 2, 2007
Perfect Explanation of RSS -- Engaging Video Tutorial
| May 2, 2007
Free Conference Call Recording/Podcasting Service at FreeConferencing.LiveOffice.com
| Apr 29, 2007
Jott—a Free Voicemail to Transcribed Text Memo Service
| Apr 28, 2007
Where I'm Going, My Aspirations -- Everything Seems to Align with Web 2.0
| Apr 20, 2007
How to Subscribe to RSS Feeds with Internet Explorer 7
| Mar 30, 2007
MySQL CEO Says, "It is dangerous to hire someobody who has too much experience."
| Mar 28, 2007
WordPress vs. Movable Type: The Advantages of Open Source and What It Means for Technical Writers
| Mar 27, 2007
Yahoo Pipes and the Mashed Up World of Aggregated, Filtered, Blended Information
| Mar 24, 2007
The Evolutionary Strategy of Web 2.0 — It's Like Having 100 Personal Researchers Working For You
| Mar 13, 2007
Microformats and the Semantic Web
| Mar 11, 2007
37 Signals, To Do Lists — Printable To Do Lists To Get Organized
| Feb 27, 2007
My First Virtual Administrative Meeting
| Feb 27, 2007
Spinvox: The Next Killer App. for Cell Phones
| Feb 24, 2007
Never Listen to Voicemail via Cell Phone Again — Callwave.com & Spinvox Deliver Voicemail to Email for Free
| Feb 22, 2007
Suncoast Member Map Finished
| Feb 22, 2007
Making a Chapter Member Map Mashup with Google Maps
| Feb 8, 2007
Survey Gizmo: The best tool/thing I have used/done
| Jan 31, 2007
Web Developer Firefox Extension Makes CSS Editing Easy
| Jan 13, 2007
Read a Book by E-mail, a Little Each Day with Daily Lit
| Jan 11, 2007
Make your computer run faster by disabling all the auto-startup programs
| Dec 27, 2006
Web 2.0 dieting and nutrition site: Sparkpeople.com
| Dec 27, 2006
WordPress as Budgeting Software: Mo.neytrack.in
| Dec 26, 2006
Why Blogger is more popular than WordPress: Ease of Use
| Dec 25, 2006
Using Gmail to read Threaded Conversations from Listservs
| Dec 21, 2006
Skype Firefox Exention Changes Phone Numbers into Buttons
| Dec 15, 2006
Open Source Folder Compression Utility -- 7 Zip
| Dec 11, 2006
Posting Youtube Videos — A Required Tone for Internet Audiences?
| Dec 7, 2006
Creating your own RSS Feed
| Dec 5, 2006
Looking up IP addresses
| Nov 30, 2006
Wordpress to offer Enterprise Edition
| Nov 21, 2006
Open Source Software and Wikis
| Nov 9, 2006
Checking out Youtube: A Few Fun Videos to Watch
| Nov 8, 2006
Top 100 blogs and top 100 podcasts
| Nov 6, 2006
Two useful tools for surveys and webinars
| Nov 6, 2006
Combining Podcasting with Technical Writing
| Sep 21, 2006
DITA Structured Blogging and Online Help
| Sep 14, 2006
Websort -- Testing out the Logical Taxonomy of your Site
| Sep 11, 2006
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