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Feb 12, 20080

Wiki talks in central Texas

Anne Gentle will be sharing her expertise on using wikis to build user centric, user-maintained technical documentation at a talk in San Antonio this evening: A Technical Writer’s Role in Web 2.0 — Wiki-fy Your Doc Set.

On 20 February, the Central Texas DITA User Group will hold the next in its series of panels on wiki use. The first panel was held in January and featured speakers from Sun, IBM, Quadralay WebWorks and OLPC.

This month, the panel features: Lisa Dyer from Lombardi Software, Michele Guthrie from Cisco and Alan J. Porter from Quadralay WebWorks.

Jan 24, 20084

What does DITA have to do with wiki use at IBM, Sun, OLPC, and WebWorks?

Anne Gentle wrote to tell me that she and a panel of wiki users from the likes of IBM, Sun, the OLPC Project, and Quadralay WebWorks discussed DITA and wikis last night at the Central Texas DITA users group. (DITA is a popular set of XML schematics for technical documentation.) Here’s what she wrote about IBM’s wiki use: [Read more]

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