<div dir="ltr">Awesome news!<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Jared Morgan<div>M: +61413005479</div><div><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/117309635670089895654/posts/p/pub" target="_blank">Google+</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/!#/jaredmorgs" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://facebook.com/jaredmorgs" target="_blank">Facebook</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 04:38, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>Sharing good news from Stephanie, with her permission ...<br>
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    <div class="gmail-m_4543289317760776970moz-cite-prefix">On 3/7/19 6:32 am, Stephanie Blotner
      (Uber) wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi Cameron,
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        <div>Following up on being able to leverage some of Uber's
          template / best practices resources for this effort, my
          manager thinks it's a good idea! I need to do some more follow
          up with our open source/legal folks, but consider this a
          tentative yes to sharing:</div>
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            <li>What we've learned from rolling out dev templates</li>
            <li>Our TW course</li>
            <li>Our dev doc templates</li>
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                  26/6/19 3:39 am, Stephanie Blotner wrote:<br>
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                  <div dir="ltr">Hi Cameron, 
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                    <div>Thanks for following up, I've been slowly
                      working my way through the existing resources and
                      blogs (I have a new July 8 deadline for a work
                      project, so I have been multitasking :) ). </div>
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                    <div>I don't have bandwidth in this next month to
                      contribute to the execution part of this effort,
                      but am happy to share feedback and ideas. </div>
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                    <div>I do think it's good to consider joining
                      existing projects to avoid reinventing the wheel,
                      if possible. The <a href="https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/" target="_blank">Write the
                        Docs guide</a> seems like a great candidate for
                      this, with good name recognition in the TW
                      community. </div>
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                    <div>Cheers,</div>
                    <div>Stephanie</div>
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                        <div class="gmail-m_4543289317760776970gmail-m_-7306485746914052931gmail-m_3173325732743920121gmail-m_2256760125540908556moz-cite-prefix">On
                          22/6/19 1:02 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:<br>
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                          <p>For those being looped into this
                            conversation for the first time, here are
                            some getting started links:</p>
                          <p>--<br>
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                          <p>Stephanie Blotner is a tech writer at Uber
                            and did a great podcast <a class="gmail-m_4543289317760776970gmail-m_-7306485746914052931gmail-m_3173325732743920121gmail-m_2256760125540908556moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZmAEuC2zuA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZmAEuC2zuA</a>
                            about empowering developers to become better
                            writers .. and quite a bit more. She covers
                            some of this in this blog post: <a class="gmail-m_4543289317760776970gmail-m_-7306485746914052931gmail-m_3173325732743920121gmail-m_2256760125540908556moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://increment.com/documentation/primer-on-documentation-content-strategy/" target="_blank">https://increment.com/documentation/primer-on-documentation-content-strategy/</a>
                            . She has also suggested <a href="https://github.com/San-Francisco-Write-The-Docs/lone-writers-guide" target="_blank">https://github.com/San-Francisco-Write-The-Docs/lone-writers-guide</a>
                            as a group who have started collating tech
                            writer know-how.<br>
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                          <p>Stephanie, you were wondering about IP and
                            getting permission to share company writing
                            guides. The bottom line is that in the
                            digital economy, <b>collaboration out
                              competes competition</b>. Longer version
                            at: <a href="http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-open-business-business-case.html" target="_blank">http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-open-business-business-case.html</a></p>
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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant

M +61 (0) 419 142 254</pre>
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