• Toni Morrison’s generous rejection letters (This week in books)

    Updated: 2024-03-29 19:00:00
    This week! Books! First off, Melina Moe at Los Angeles Review of Books has a really fascinating look at the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent during her stint as an editor at Random House. Aside from pointing to industry realities of the time (and some realities seem eternal, like publishers not knowing how to sell […]

  • What’s the soundtrack to your work in progress?

    Updated: 2024-03-27 19:00:00
    With social media fragmenting, I’m bringing back my old “You Tell Me” Wednesday discussions to try to get good old fashioned blog conversations going. If you’re reading in a feed reader or via email, please click through to the post to leave a public comment and join the discussion! Many writers listen to music while they write, […]

  • A query letter that worked (This week in books)

    Updated: 2024-03-22 19:00:00
    This week! Books! First up, author Marve Michael was kind enough to share her query for her New Adult novel FIRSTBORN OF THE SON, and it’s quite excellent. Note all the specific, judiciously chosen details as she details the plot! The way she escalates to a definitive choice where the stakes are clear in the […]

  • Prompt engineering: gathering source input

    Updated: 2024-03-20 07:00:00
    A powerful way to reduce hallucination with AI tools is to supply an abundance of source material for the AI to draw upon. This article explores best practices for gathering and organizing that source material. I argue that you should be selective in what you include, preferring quality over quantity. Organize basic information first, then more advanced details. Include the reference output and any meeting notes.

  • Prompt engineering: error checking the output

    Updated: 2024-03-20 07:00:00
    In this article, I describe a method to use the AI to fact-check its own output against source materials. The better your source materials, the more likely you'll be able to identify errors. However, even with this method, human review by SMEs (subject matter experts) is still necessary. Unfortunately, getting SMEs to thoroughly review drafts can be difficult. Additionally, SMEs have such specialized knowledge, it's easy for one SME to LGTM a doc without having 100% certainty about each part.

  • Integrating AI with your content delivery platform and documentation: Zoomin Q&A with Keren Brown

    Updated: 2024-03-18 07:00:00
    In this post, I chat with Keren Brown at Zoomin Software about best practices for integrating AI with documentation. Keren emphasizes the importance of first making your content AI-ready, which means ensuring that it's accurate and up to date, before incorporating AI features. We discuss the reasons companies adopt AI, how to overcome implementation challenges, common mistakes, creativity vs. hallucination, consolidating content, user behaviors, security concerns, and measuring success.

  • Jane's Pick of the Day What do you understand by the term blended learning a poll

    Updated: 2024-03-17 01:36:26
    : Jane's Pick of the Day From Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning Performance Technologies the largest independent learning site on the Web Home 17 December 2014 What do you understand by the term blended learning a poll You'll find the poll here 17 Dec 2014 19:31:37 Comment 0 Reblog It 0 The comments to this entry are closed . NEXT POST It’s not about adding technology to training , but about changing training Read my post here PREVIOUS POST My 20 most popular posts in 2014 You can find my post here Jane Hart 1 Following 208 Followers Search Recent Comments : Aohanian Jane , thanks for having started this seven year . more On Current Learning Technology Trends Jane : Hart Try my social Learning Handbook and associated more On Collaborative Working Learning Workshops maeve Dear

  • Jane's Pick of the Day What do you understand by the term blended learning a poll

    Updated: 2024-03-17 01:36:26
    : Jane's Pick of the Day From Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning Performance Technologies the largest independent learning site on the Web Home 17 December 2014 What do you understand by the term blended learning a poll You'll find the poll here 17 Dec 2014 19:31:37 Comment 0 Reblog It 0 The comments to this entry are closed . NEXT POST It’s not about adding technology to training , but about changing training Read my post here PREVIOUS POST My 20 most popular posts in 2014 You can find my post here Jane Hart 1 Following 208 Followers Search Recent Comments : Aohanian Jane , thanks for having started this seven year . more On Current Learning Technology Trends Jane : Hart Try my social Learning Handbook and associated more On Collaborative Working Learning Workshops maeve Dear

  • Jane's Pick of the Day

    Updated: 2024-03-17 01:36:23
    Jane's Pick of the Day From Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning Performance Technologies the largest independent learning site on the Web Home 10 November 2014 Moving Beyond E-Learning Online Workshop Find out more and sign up to the online workshop running 17 November 19 December 2014 HERE 10 Nov 2014 16:05:00 Comment 0 Reblog It 0 05 November 2014 Why organizations need self-managed learners and how you can help In the past , individuals were trained to do their jobs once and this would last them their whole careers . 0160 Over time , as job roles became more sophisticated or new technology or procedures were introduced , training became a full-time operation to keep people knowledgeable , skilled and up to date . But the world is now changing so fast , that despite the fact

  • Showcasing your API technical writer portfolio and projects — guest post by Peter Gustafson

    Updated: 2024-03-12 07:00:00
    How can you persuade potential employers about your API expertise? One of the strongest moves you can make is to share a link to your portfolio. The following is a guest post by Peter Gustafson, a technical writer who's had a lot of success with API documentation projects at many high-profile companies. I was chatting with Peter on Linkedin the other week about trends he's seeing in the field, and I asked him to write a guest post. In this post, he explains the importance of having an online portfolio that potential employers can easily access and browse.

  • Jane Hart's Profile Typepad

    Updated: 2024-03-07 21:23:41
    Sign In This is Jane Hart's Typepad . Profile Join Typepad and start following Jane Hart's activity Join Now Already a member Sign In Jane Hart Update has been hidden from all public facing feeds in Typepad Recent Activity This blog is closing This blog is closing . To keep up to date , please subscribe to Learning in the Modern Workplace her http : c4lpt.co.uk blog Continue reading Posted Feb 26, 2015 at Jane's Pick of the Day Comment 0 Social Learning Practitioner Programme Public online workshop runs for 10 weeks 12 January 20 March . Find out more here . Continue reading Posted Jan 5, 2015 at Jane's Pick of the Day Comment 0 50 key messages for L D from 2014 You can read the blog post here . Continue reading Posted Dec 31, 2014 at Jane's Pick of the Day Comment 0 My 20 most popular

  • Prompt engineering: Reverse engineering the recipe for excellent documentation

    Updated: 2024-03-04 08:00:00
    I added another article to my prompt engineering series on reverse engineering prompts. Reverse engineering a prompt can mean a few different things, but in this article, I'm referring to deriving the likely prompt based on a given output. For example, you pass in some finished content and ask the AI to write a prompt that would produce a similar output. Although reverse engineering prompts might not be all that different from simply coming up with a template for docs, I added this article here to emphasize that you can get AI to write prompts for you, and many times these prompts are good. They can be much more detailed and robust than manually written prompts.

  • Prompt engineering series: Populating documentation templates using AI

    Updated: 2024-03-04 08:00:00
    I added a new article to my prompt engineering series on populating documentation templates. In the article, I explain how to use AI to populate documentation templates with information that you've gathered. This technique can be a quick way to get an initial draft of documentation, which you can then edit and review with SMEs.

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