Charlotte Robidoux

Charlotte Robidoux holds a Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America and specializes in rhetoric, technical communication, and science. Charlotte's doctoral work focused on the role of rhetoric in genetics research. She is a content strategy manager for the Enterprise Storage & Servers division at HP and leads the organization's single-sourcing initiative, overseeing content reuse and the team's content management system. Her interest in collaboration stems from the development of processes for reusing content effectively across products. Because typically writers have been accustomed to working independently, they need best practices for writing collaboratively in virtual settings. Charlotte joined HP in 2000 and has worked in technical communication for over 17 years as an author, editor, and manager. She is a recipient of the Center for Information Development (CIDM) "Rare Bird" award for her work on an HP document tracking database. She began her career in technical communications as a consultant for Washington, DC. firms holding contracts with the Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Environmental Protection Agency, and others. In addition to writing numerous articles of the CIDM Best Practices newsletter, she is the author of "Rhetorically Structured Content: Developing a Collaborative Single-Sourcing Curriculum" published in Technical Communication Quarterly, co-author of "Is There a Write Way to Collaborate?" published in STC’s Intercom, and co-author of "Streamline Your Path to Metadata" published in The Information Management & Architecture Framework.

Publications

Virtual Collaborative Writing in the Workplace: Computer-Mediated Communication Technologies and Processes
Virtual Collaborative Writing in the Workplace: Computer-Mediated Communication Technologies and Processes
Beth L. Hewett, Charlotte Robidoux. © 2010. 516 pages.
Recently, there has been an increase in the need for individuals to collaborate virtually on writing projects. Writing virtually allows individuals to distribute their processes...