I spend most of my OpenLogic attention right now on Wazi, whether it be working with writers like Grant Smith and Dru Lavigne or our terrific internal team on what they might contribute, developing my own contributions, or researching what we might want to cover. Mornings before work I spend reading poetry. Lately Zbigniew Herbert, [...]
Read More »http://del.icio.us/ is touted as the premiere example of 'folksonomy' – users building a taxonomy. In other words, users creating categories, a classification system for content. In the case of this site, a folder, but you get to put the same bookmark in three or a dozen 'folders' if you'd like. This is tagging at work. [...]
Read More »Quickly in my research I begin to see a distinction between categories of communication tools. There are tools that will help us at OpenLogic not only communicate with our users, but allow a discussion between us and there are other tools we might make available in our community to enhance the ability of users to [...]
Read More »I've been researching the opportunities 'Web 2.0' or 'semantic Web' provides for creating 'content', content having become the catch-all term for a company's documented efforts to communicate with customers/users. It includes what we used to think of as 'documentation' or 'technical communication,' as well as marketing and sales materials and help, all pictures and instructional [...]
Read More »I’m ambivalent about the value of blogs. Not the value of communication, certainly not the value of writing. I write everyday, and I write everything. Supervisors and colleagues notice (and query and tease). My partner says I make more notes than anyone else he’s ever known. I’ve written since I was 12 years old; it’s [...]
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