Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-03-02 Thread Claire Wood
Hi All re Facebook. Someone wants to try getting everyone to join the one group. There's no way that you can share with everyone unless you join all 75 groups which defeats the object really, but such is life. On the whole, I think Facebook has quite a few issues to address at the moment, not lea

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-25 Thread Clayton
On 02/26/2010 01:45 AM, tnthu...@aol.com wrote: > unsubscribe me You have to unsubscribe yourself. At the bottom of every message to this mailing list, you should see this footer. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@docume

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-25 Thread Tnthudfl
unsubscribe me In a message dated 2/24/2010 2:34:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, drewjensen.in...@gmail.com writes: I don't know..but yes it would be nice if the wiki logo was picked up instead. As for the Ugly Oracle logoisn't that redundant ( OH he didn't say that...his evil twin di

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread deleeuw3
IE can be improved with this.. http://www.google.com/chromeframe ( ; On 2/25/2010 1:56 AM, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: On 02/24/10 13:36, Claire Wood wrote: Hi Clayton I just tried it by sharing on twitter and facebook and the share was successful. The only thing is once you've sha

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Andrew Jensen
I don't know..but yes it would be nice if the wiki logo was picked up instead. As for the Ugly Oracle logoisn't that redundant ( OH he didn't say that...his evil twin did). Later :>) Drew ps - besides I heard that you guys are actually a subsidiary DBA as Sun in Germany (or some such..i'm r

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Daniel Lewis
Drew Jensen wrote: Ah sorry - I keep forgetting just how closed off facebook can be. If you have a facebook account you can see it... sorry Drew Agreed. I'm on FB and I have no problems seeing Oracle on your wall. Dan ---

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Clayton
On 02/24/2010 07:07 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: > >> >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Template:AddThis >> > > ...and one lttle nit-picky thing..(you know there was going to be one of > those with me..right) > > The Oracle logo...well, just look for yourself > > http://www.facebook.com/dj.

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Claire Wood
Hi Drew I can't see it, I just get your info page giving your employment history but no Oracle logo, not even at the bottom of the page. I'll have to take your word for it. I was on twitter before with a guy from Adobe who was sharing a link from the states to Buzzword document and I kept gettin

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Drew Jensen
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Template:AddThis ...and one lttle nit-picky thing..(you know there was going to be one of those with me..right) The Oracle logo...well, just look for yourself http://www.facebook.com/dj.son.of.gus I shared a wiki page and let it display the logo.

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Drew Jensen
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Template:AddThis and can be inserted into a page using {{AddThis}} and the button will show up at the point where the Template call is added. Excellent! - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/24/10 16:24, Claire Wood wrote: > BTW, something I did stumble upon on Facebook is a site called http://www.shareopenoffice.org/ that people are posting to. Do you know anything about it. It only has about 40 users I think, but I'd never heard of it before and issues are being posted up

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Claire Wood
OK, well I'm willing to try it out. Don't know when that will be mind you, but I guess it won't be long till I'm doing something on the Wiki. Thanks alot for your help Clayton. BTW, something I did stumble upon on Facebook is a site called http://www.shareopenoffice.org/ that people are posting

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/24/10 13:36, Claire Wood wrote: Hi Clayton I just tried it by sharing on twitter and facebook and the share was successful. The only thing is once you've shared the wiki pages gives you a pop up box inviting the sharer to download something to make it easier to share using IE, whether it

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Claire Wood
Hi Clayton I tested the links from twitter and facebook but got a blank page (see attached image) with your name on it. Is this down to not being logged in do you think? Claire On 24 February 2010 06:36, Claire Wood wrote: > Hi Clayton > > I just tried it by sharing on twitter and facebook an

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Claire Wood
Hi Clayton I just tried it by sharing on twitter and facebook and the share was successful. The only thing is once you've shared the wiki pages gives you a pop up box inviting the sharer to download something to make it easier to share using IE, whether it would do that if you were using another

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/24/10 12:16, Claire Wood wrote: Hi Clayton On the one hand I think it would be good to try it on a small area of the wiki, if that's possible, because it is the way information sharing is going nowadays but maybe we should just experiment with one particular area of OOo. For instance mayb

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Claire Wood
Hi Clayton On the one hand I think it would be good to try it on a small area of the wiki, if that's possible, because it is the way information sharing is going nowadays but maybe we should just experiment with one particular area of OOo. For instance maybe it's worth doing it with the tutorials

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/23/10 20:24, Claire Wood wrote: I tried experimenting with one of the wiki pages putting a button on using AddThis (http://www.addthis.com/) and I couldn't get it to work on the wiki page. There are users on twitter and I see them all the time. There are also 75 groups on facebook all ded

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-23 Thread deleeuw3
Great idea, Claire! Facebook and Twitter users of OpenOffice.org may be very interested in helping out! Alan On 2/24/2010 6:24 AM, Claire Wood wrote: Hi I tried experimenting with one of the wiki pages putting a button on using AddThis (http://www.addthis.com/) and I couldn't get it to work

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-23 Thread Claire Wood
Hi I tried experimenting with one of the wiki pages putting a button on using AddThis (http://www.addthis.com/) and I couldn't get it to work on the wiki page. There are users on twitter and I see them all the time. There are also 75 groups on facebook all dedicated to OpenOffice.org. Just thin

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-10 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Interesting... The problem with social media sites is that they are useless unless the people are willing and able to be a member. I am on neither facebook nor twitter, so I have no access to either site. Also, some social networking sites limit the number of people that can be a direct conne

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-10 Thread Nino Novak
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 16:37, Claire Wood wrote: > http://www.invesp.com/blog-rank/Technical_Writing Claire, being by no means a technical writer ;-) I just clicked a bit around in the best ranked blogs and just found this nice article by Anne Gentle ("Putting the User in User Assistan