Archives for Giles Gaskell

What a fantastic Doc Sprint!

Early last month, Atlassian held their second Doc Sprint event and what a fantastic event it was! While our first Doc Sprint focussed on developing tutorials for third-party developers of Atlassian's software, our second event focussed on 'Quick Start' and 'How to' guides for users and administrators of our software. We held this Doc Sprint in both Sydney and San Francisco again. Naturally, we expected a slightly different group of participants this time round, so of course we were thrilled by the

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Technical Writing in a Wiki: From draft to published document

This is the second in a series of posts from Atlassian's Technical Writing Team focusing on using a wiki for technical writing. Last week, Andrew Lui talked about why wikis are ideal for collaborative documentation development. In this post, I'll be talking about how you can use a wiki to publish documentation, from authoring content through to publishing.

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Technical Writing @ Atlassian: Join us for our second Atlassian Doc Sprint

Atlassian's technical writers are holding our second Doc Sprint on the 4th and 5th of November 2010. It's happening in Sydney, in San Francisco and online and you're invited! If you can't join us in person, you can drop in on our daily webinar sessions, follow the buzz in our online chat room and subscribe to our email list. What is a Doc Sprint? A Doc Sprint is a short (two-day) event when a group of people collaborate and focus on writing a specific set of documentation. What's our second Doc Sprint

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