Clever Hamster

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Recent Posts

  • Writing Great Error Messages
  • How asynchronous meetings speed Agile
  • Growing tech pubs on top of Confluence, like Salesforce.org
  • Why "Clever Hamster"?
  • Road to Cohousing: People over Things
  • ATX Aging & Innovation Summit
  • So, why cohousing?
  • Quick space deletes in Confluence
  • Documentation-Driven Design: Moving the Caboose
  • Keep Austin Agile 2016 Takeaways

Cool Reads

  • Winifred Gallagher: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

    Winifred Gallagher: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

  • Anne Gentle: Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation
  • Chip Heath: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

    Chip Heath: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

  • Thomas Limoncelli: Time Management for System Administrators

    Thomas Limoncelli: Time Management for System Administrators

  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

  • Timothy Ferris: The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

    Timothy Ferris: The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

  • Seth Godin: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

    Seth Godin: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

  • Thomas L. Friedman: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

    Thomas L. Friedman: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

  • Eric Abrahamson: A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder--How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place

    Eric Abrahamson: A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder--How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place

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Interviews:

  • DocOps: Documentation at the Speed of Agile, for SolutionsIQ
  • Software User Assistance Conference preview, for WritersUA
  • Doc-To-Help Migration from Author-It, for ComponentOne

Articles:

  • STC Intercom invited article, "How to break into API documentation" (PDF)
  • Draft input for product marketing: TDE_Whitepaper
  • Blog posts on Agile/Scrum, User Experience (UX), and technical writing

Public Presentation Slides:

  • MadCap webinar: "Structuring for Content Reuse with Doc·To·Help"
  • Keep Austin Agile: “DocOps: Documentation at the Speed of Agile”
  • “Single-Sourcing and Cloud-Sourcing Graphics”
  • “Adding developer docs to your deliverables” with Nicky Bleiel of ComponentOne
  • “Why I left my CCMS… and how I did it!”

Public Documentation Sites:

  • Administrator and developer docs: Caringo Documentation (Confluence)
  • API documentation: Telogis TDE (Sandcastle)
  • Developer documentation: iMIS SOA (Doc-To-Help and Sandcastle)
  • Self-service support and help site: iMIS 100 (Zendesk)
  • Enterprise software help: iMIS 15.1 (Author-it),
    then migrated to Doc-To-Help to meet Agile requirement: iMIS 15.2

Technical Training (developed and presented):

  • Systems Training Handouts (post-training reference diagrams)
  • Systems Training Slides
  • Video recording, self-serve training, first of set: 1-Life-of-a-Point

Strategic Information Design:

  • PMO Plan and resulting process launchpad for 3M program management site, which I created in SharePoint:
    PMO-Phase-Gates

  • Vision for cross-product developer support (external site): Telogis_Visionpaper_DeveloperSupport
  • Vision for self-serve training (internal site): Self-Training Strategy

 

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