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    How Things Are Broken and How to Unbreak them

    Seth Godin on seven reason things are broken

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    Editing using the Web

    As technical communicators, we all work with editors or as editors from time to time. Any project team sooner or later has to manage reviewing slides, a spec, or some other document that represents the entire group's thoughts.

    Textflow is a new entry into online editing that does more than make revision versions, let you leave comments, or mark added and deleted text.

    Textflow: Collaborative Editing Made Easy - ReadWriteWeb

    As this article points out, there are limitations in this beta, such as no more than 10 pages in a document. That aside, it is time people explore new ways of online editing.

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    Tweeting for work

    Get the highlights of O'Reilly Radar's $249 research report on using micro-messaging for both internal external communication for free!

    You can watch the recording of the 60 minute Webcast held yesterday at
    Webcast: Twitter for Business.

    How would you use micro-messaging for technical communication? Leave comment below.

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    Fix any interface, anywhere, anytime

    User edits are a tried and true method of getting feedback on documentation, but the same concept seems to have been adopted by an anonymous parking meter user.

    I suspect the person who reworked the UI text on this parking payment machine had used it previously and was prepared with new labels. Or they carry labels in their pocket, just looking for interfaces to rewrite!

    Users Fix Parking Ticket Machine Interface Themselves

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    Gallery | inspireUX - words to inspire user experience designers

    Catriona Cornett can help make your day with her site inspireUX. A daily quote is designed to help any UX professional remember what it is we are supposed to be doing.

    Gallery | inspireUX - words to inspire user experience designers

    You can also follow her on Twitter, http://tinyurl.com/6oukbo where she tweets when she posts her latest quote.

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    More effective card sorting

    Michael Hawley looks at better ways to use card sorting when designing the information architecture of an information-rich site. Extending Card-Sorting Techniques to Inform the Design of Web Site Hierarchies :: UXmatters

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    This is kind of cool!

    If you recruit usability participants via your Web site, bolt/peters has come up with a free tool for putting a screen on a Web page.

    I learned about Ethnio via the User Experience group on LinkedIn. If you are a LinkedIn member, sign-up for the group so you can learn cools things like this.

    Ethnio :: Recruiting for User Research :: Edit

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    Twitter for Technical Communicating?

    O'Reilly is sponsoring a free Webcast on the use of micro-messaging in business. Webcast: Twitter for Business I predict there will be some ideas we technical communicators can turn to our own uses. Register at the link.

    And go to my new UUX Manager Twitter page for a Tweeting experience.

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