Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical Communication

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An in-depth guide to technical communication on a wiki, with a focus on the Confluence wiki. Discusses planning and selecting a wiki, installing and maintaining your wiki, and developing technical communication content on a wiki. While the focus is on Confluence, the book contains useful information for anyone using any wiki for technical communication.
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Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication

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An in-depth guide to technical communication on a wiki, with a focus on the Confluence wiki. Discusses planning and selecting a wiki, installing and maintaining your wiki, and developing technical communication content on a wiki. While the focus is on Confluence, the book contains useful information for anyone using any wiki for technical communication.
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http://hotoncollaboration.com/blog/2012/5/31/book-review-and-winechocolate-pairing-guide-confluence-tech.html - Randall Ward
I would highly recommend Sarah’s new book to anyone currently using, planning to use, or simply interested in learning more about what a Wiki is, and how to use it as a platform to facilitate the type of writing you’re involved with.
Back cover of book - Ward Cunningham
Wiki wants you to work with others to incrementally write what will be incrementally read. Sarah wants you to approach this task with powerful tools and the confidence to wield them well. I want language and thought to find a happy home on the computer and look forward to our continuing progress together. And, of course, we all want chocolate.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781937434007
  • Publisher: XML Press
  • Publication date: 2/15/2012
  • Pages: 488
  • Sales rank: 466,995
  • Product dimensions: 7.50 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 0.98 (d)

Meet the Author

Sarah Maddox is a technical writer at Atlassian, makers of software tools for technical teams. She started her working life as a software developer in South Africa and Europe, did a stint as a book indexer, and then moved into the best job of all: writing docs that rock. She now lives in a house on a hill in Australia amongst the kookaburras and possums.
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  • Posted March 24, 2012

    I'm sorry I did not have this book sooner, as it would have save

    I'm sorry I did not have this book sooner, as it would have saved me a lot of research time. The section comparing the major wiki brands and describing what is best for an enterprise wiki was very useful.

    About 60% of the book covers Confluence in depth and in many aspects, including planning, installation, third party add-ons.

    There is excellent information on best practices around managing and using a wiki - any wiki. There is a lot of useful information on managing wiki content like... community contributed content, managing spam, crowd sourcing (the good and the bad), content reuse, and single source publication (the book was written on a wiki).

    The author clearly has had many years of experience in all these issues, so it's very good to be able to access all this knowledge in one easy to read book.

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  • Posted March 5, 2012

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    Virtually useless unless you are working with the Confluence wik

    Virtually useless unless you are working with the Confluence wiki. If you're using MindTouch or MediaWiki, keep looking. The focus is all on Confluence and it is hard to see how to apply the concepts and strategies to another wiki.

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