My writing teammates and I are working through our favorite ways to start a project and do user and task analysis. The exercise forced me to write down what it is I do when starting a new project. My formal training began in graduate school but my practical training happened at only two different companies, […]
Emerging wiki use – now and future wikis
As you might have seen on The Content Wrangler recently, I wrote a response to JoAnn Hackos’ article, Is there a wiki in your future? and Scott Abel chose the title for my special contribution to his site. I think the title of this blog post – Emerging wiki use – now and future wikis […]
Levels of difficulty and stress in a technical writer job
I have been thinking lately about how to measure the level of stress and difficulty you could expect from a particular technical writing job. Would it be the type of content you write? The output requirements? The deadlines? This post is a result of some ideas my coworkers and I discussed over lunch the other […]