- Documentation with Blogs, Wikis, and Online Communities with Anne Gentle. In this session, Anne will talk generally about how Web 2.0 approaches can help technical communicators converse with end-users, and I'll highlight FLOSS Manuals book sprints as a specific example of bringing together online communities to create documentation.
- Understanding User-Generated Documentation: FLOSS Manuals with Scott Abel. I'll be helping Scott by giving a demo of the FLOSS Manuals site. In this session, FLOSS Manuals is cited as an example of user-generated content as a social and technological phenomenon: users not only can but do generate pretty good documentation.
Some events I'm planning or at least hoping to attend:
- Lone Writers SIG dinner on Sunday evening
- Usability and User Experience SIG breakfast on Monday
- Summit Tweetup Monday night
- Lone Writers SIG breakfast on Wednesday
Finally, I'm now on Twitter, so I'll be microblogging and monitoring the #stc09 stream. If you just can't get enough of hearing what's on my mind, my Twitter ID is jmswisher.