Anne Gentle has decided that it’s time to take Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation out of print. The social media landscape has changed radically in just a few years. While the information in the book is still valid and relevant, there are trends and technologies that were not in existence when Anne […]
The second edition of Anne Gentle’s Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation is now generally available.
The second edition contains new chapters on building a content strategy, analyzing web techniques, and developing an open source strategy. Along with a greatly expanded bibliography and updates throughout, there are more interviews and more case studies.
Anne Gentle has just finished the second edition of Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, and we expect the book to be available by the end of June.
To celebrate we are offering a free preview and are holding a drawing to give two lucky people free copies of the new […]
Congratulations to XML Press authors Anne Gentle (@annegentle) and Char James-Tanny (@CharJTF) for being recognized by MindTouch as being among the Top Ten Tech Comm Influencers in 2011.
It’s also great to see XML Press (@xmlpress), Sarah Maddox (@sarahmaddox), Alan Porter (@alanjporter), and Richard Hamilton (@richardhamilton) on MindTouch’s list of 401 Tech Comm Influencers. […]
Thanks to everyone who attended the “Managing Teams of Writers” webinar last Friday. We had about 250 attendees, with participation from all over the world.
We got a lot of questions, which will be compiled and answered within the next week or so. We will post an announcement when they are ready. If you were […]
I was pleased to receive a request to participate in Ruud Hein’s (@ruudhein on twitter) “Ruud Questions” series of interviews a few weeks ago. He sent me a set of questions, which I answered, and the interview is now posted at: searchenginepeople.com.
I was impressed by the research that went into his questions. […]
Anne Gentle read from her book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) on Tuesday, March 16 in Austin, TX. She had an attentive crowd that asked some great questions; clearly social media folks are interested in technical communication and technical […]
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I was pleased to receive a request to participate in Ruud Hein’s (@ruudhein on twitter) “Ruud Questions” series of interviews a few weeks ago. He sent me a set of questions, which I answered, and the interview is now posted at: searchenginepeople.com.
I was impressed by the research that went into his questions. […]