Comments for Managing Technical Documentation http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:52:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on STC 2008: Day Four, June 4 by Yoel Strimling http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/stc-2008-day-four-june-4/#comment-727 Yoel Strimling Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:19:01 +0000 http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-727 Glad you enjoyed our presentation - we had fun giving it! :) Glad you enjoyed our presentation - we had fun giving it! :)

]]> Comment on Evaluation, Part 3 by Ravi http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/outline/evaluation-part-3/#comment-724 Ravi Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:17:57 +0000 http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/evaluation-part-3/#comment-724 seems fine seems fine

]]> Comment on STC 2008: Day Four, June 4 by Rahul Prabhakar http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/stc-2008-day-four-june-4/#comment-722 Rahul Prabhakar Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:18:58 +0000 http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-722 Namaste! Glad to see that you made it safely home. Hope the trip wasn't too exhausting! It was a pleasure meeting you at the STC Summit in Philly. Hope we'll be able to keep up our conversation over this long distance! Cheers! ---------------------------------------------------- -- Rahul Prabhakar prabhakar.rahul@gmail.com http://2brahulprabhakar.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------- PS: You are encouraged to join my technical writing listserv called TWI (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/technical_writers_india/). Your presence on the list shall be highly cherished. Namaste!

Glad to see that you made it safely home. Hope the trip wasn’t too exhausting!

It was a pleasure meeting you at the STC Summit in Philly. Hope we’ll be able to keep up our conversation over this long distance!

Cheers!

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– Rahul Prabhakar
prabhakar.rahul@gmail.com
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PS: You are encouraged to join my technical writing listserv called TWI (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/technical_writers_india/). Your presence on the list shall be highly cherished.

]]> Comment on STC 2008: Day Four, June 4 by Tom Johnson http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/stc-2008-day-four-june-4/#comment-719 Tom Johnson Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:03:12 +0000 http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-719 I'm thoroughly enjoying your writeups, esp. this one. You showed me some value that I hadn't seen before (esp. with Wurman's talk). I’m thoroughly enjoying your writeups, esp. this one. You showed me some value that I hadn’t seen before (esp. with Wurman’s talk).

]]> Comment on STC 2008: Day Three, June 3 by Mike Wethington http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/stc-2008-day-three-june-3/#comment-716 Mike Wethington Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:35:44 +0000 http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/?p=83#comment-716 Richard: I hope my session was helpful to you. We did stray from the deck quite a bit but it was obvious, at least to me, that we needed a more interactive session. Mine was the 3rd Agile session of the day for many people and there is just too much to talk about. Rather than pontificating from the podium, I did try and draw in audience members who I knew had experience with Agile to give their views and help answer questions. If you have anything you'd like additional information about or have questions, contact me or join the Content Wrangler Community Agile Documentation group. Best regards, Mike Richard:

I hope my session was helpful to you. We did stray from the deck quite a bit but it was obvious, at least to me, that we needed a more interactive session. Mine was the 3rd Agile session of the day for many people and there is just too much to talk about.

Rather than pontificating from the podium, I did try and draw in audience members who I knew had experience with Agile to give their views and help answer questions.

If you have anything you’d like additional information about or have questions, contact me or join the Content Wrangler Community Agile Documentation group.

Best regards,
Mike

]]> Comment on STC 2008: Day Three, June 3 by annegentle http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/stc-2008-day-three-june-3/#comment-715 annegentle Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:58:46 +0000 http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/?p=83#comment-715 Great entries from the conference. Thanks for putting these together, it helps me feel like I got a little more out of the conference just by reading them, even though I too was there. :) Found these because you tagged them with stc2008, so I will tag mine as well. Good thinking! Great entries from the conference. Thanks for putting these together, it helps me feel like I got a little more out of the conference just by reading them, even though I too was there. :)

Found these because you tagged them with stc2008, so I will tag mine as well. Good thinking!

]]> Comment on What Can We Learn About Motivation from a Tornado? by Bennet Simonton http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/what-can-we-learn-about-motivation-from-a-tornado/#comment-706 Bennet Simonton Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:31:54 +0000 http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-706 You have that right about motivation being internal. And since it is, the only way to gain someone else's commitment is to allow that person the unleash their own motivation. How? That is the easy part. Treat them with great respect by carefully listening to them and helping them in any way they say they need. Only in this environment will people unleash their full potential of creativity, innovation, productivity, motivation and commitment. This applies to business or any pursuit such as tornado disaster relief. Best regards, Ben Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed" You have that right about motivation being internal. And since it is, the only way to gain someone else’s commitment is to allow that person the unleash their own motivation.

How? That is the easy part. Treat them with great respect by carefully listening to them and helping them in any way they say they need. Only in this environment will people unleash their full potential of creativity, innovation, productivity, motivation and commitment. This applies to business or any pursuit such as tornado disaster relief.

Best regards, Ben
Author “Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed”

]]> Comment on STC 2008: Day Two, June 2 by Tom Johnson http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/stc-2008-day-two-june-2/#comment-705 Tom Johnson Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:06:17 +0000 http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-705 Rick, I noticed you in the audience during this panel. I really appreciate your session posts and of course read this one with an even greater interest. Thanks for taking the time to post such a thorough writeup. I remember our discussion at Doc Train, and at the time I didn't realize you were such a prolific blogger. Keep it up. Rick, I noticed you in the audience during this panel. I really appreciate your session posts and of course read this one with an even greater interest. Thanks for taking the time to post such a thorough writeup. I remember our discussion at Doc Train, and at the time I didn’t realize you were such a prolific blogger. Keep it up.

]]> Comment on About by hharkness http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/about/#comment-701 hharkness Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:55:17 +0000 #comment-701 Met you at the STC Summit earlier tonight. I remember reading your experience with the tornado volunteers in the Mgmt SIG listserve. Good observations on the question of what motivates people. Met you at the STC Summit earlier tonight.
I remember reading your experience with the tornado volunteers in the Mgmt SIG listserve. Good observations on the question of what motivates people.

]]> Comment on Reuse Considered Harmful by   Is reuse really the be all, end all? by Communications from DMN http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/reuse-considered-harmful/#comment-696   Is reuse really the be all, end all? by Communications from DMN Fri, 16 May 2008 09:03:47 +0000 http://rlhamilton.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/reuse-considered-harmful/#comment-696 [...] Richard Hamilton has an interesting, lengthy blog post on why he considers reuse to be harmful. Hamilton definitely isn’t against reuse, but as he says: While I advocate minimizing reuse, I don’t advocate eliminating it. Legal notices, glossary definitions, and other boilerplate are obvious cases where reuse is the right strategy. But, in most of the cases where reuse really works, the content being reused is really “”meta-content,”" content that enhances, but is not central to, the document. [...] [...] Richard Hamilton has an interesting, lengthy blog post on why he considers reuse to be harmful. Hamilton definitely isn’t against reuse, but as he says: While I advocate minimizing reuse, I don’t advocate eliminating it. Legal notices, glossary definitions, and other boilerplate are obvious cases where reuse is the right strategy. But, in most of the cases where reuse really works, the content being reused is really “”meta-content,”” content that enhances, but is not central to, the document. [...]

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