Technical Communication Blogs/Wikis

I received my copy of Intercom the other day (the magazine of the Society of Technical Communication) and was pleasantly surprised to see the topic for this month's issue is "Web 2.0". All the article's subjects have to do in some way with features of many of the things we have been discussing in class- Flickr, de.licio.us, wikis, cloud tagging, RSS feeds- and what the role of a technical communicator will be in a Web 2.0 world.

I have added links to some of the blogs and wikis discussed in the magazine. One of the most interesting articles was about structured wikis which combine the elements of a database with wiki-authoring environments. One of the most popular is TWiki. Users of TWiki can catagorize content by subject, area, author, date created, etc. Several large corporations, including Morotola, Disney, SAP, and Yahoo use TWiki as internal information systems.