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Web 2.0 Category Info

April 1st, 2007by Cyn · No Comments Yet

The Web 2.0 category provides information about the future of Web communications.
Aspiring Authors and Contributors for this category: contact Cynthia Lockley

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STC Tweets at Twemes & Live Blogging

June 20th, 2008by Cyn · No Comments Yet

Technical Summit tweets are aggregated at Twemes.
About Twemes:
Twemes.com follows public Twitter.com tweets (messages) that have embedded tags that start with a # character. These are sometimes called hashtags but we like to use the term “twemes”.
Through the use of twemes, we can all view what people are talking about across the whole Twitter universe. [...]

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Web 2.0 & Accessibility for Disabled Users

June 9th, 2008by Cyn · No Comments Yet

By Kath Moonan, AbilityNet
In this article Kath Moonan examines what Web 2.0 is and what implications it might have for disabled people who use the Web, particularly the use of Ajax for interactive web pages.
Read the full article at http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/web20andaccessibility

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Snap Shots Blog Tool Update

December 15th, 2007by Cyn · No Comments Yet

Improvements for Snap Shots from Snap.com
I just updated a blog tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.
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Blogs in Plain English

December 11th, 2007by Cyn · No Comments Yet

A simple 3-minute video explanation about blogs and how they are used.

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Ginny Redish’s New Book Reviewed in “Communicator’s eNEWS”

September 25th, 2007by Cyn · No Comments Yet

Janice (Ginny) Redish, a member of the Washington DC Chapter, has a new book out called “Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works”, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2007, 380 pp., $49.95 (plus s&h; http://www.mkp.com or through http://www.redish.net). The “Communicator’s eNEWS”, Issue 78, September 2007, says that “This is a great guide for a [...]

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“Blogging for Search Engines” Handout Available

September 25th, 2007by Cyn · No Comments Yet

Nancy McCord gave a presentation about “Blogging for Search Engines” to the Capital PC User Group on Saturday, 22 September 2007 at the Cleveland Park Library in DC. Because of the popularity of her topic, she set up a resource area where you may download a PDF of her handout. See http://www.mccordweb.com/web-design/downloads.php. The presentation was [...]

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Don’t Give Out a Business Card Until You Listen to This!

September 16th, 2007by Carolyn Kelley Klinger · No Comments Yet

Freelancers and others that work from home or alone have fewer opportunities to network around the water cooler. In this 17-minute enhanced audio podcast, three networking pros reveal how to “break out of solitary confinement” and network successfully.
This podcast features an interview between host and technical writer Carolyn Kelley Klinger, technology consultant Gabe Goldberg, and [...]

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Usability Professionals Assemble in Washington DC for User Focus 2007

September 1st, 2007by Carolyn Kelley Klinger · No Comments Yet

The Washington, DC Metro chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) is pleased to announce that registration has opened for User Focus 2007. This second annual usability conference, to be held on Friday, October 12, 2007 at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, is a one-day exchange of ideas and experiences that demonstrate the value of [...]

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When to Wiki, when to Blog

August 9th, 2007by Carolyn Kelley Klinger · No Comments Yet

In his monthly column for E-Content Magazine, Bob Doyle explains it: a blog is for “the latest news” and a wiki is for “content that may be old but still good”. Read the article.

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