My fellow Technical Writers — have you noticed a thaw in the market?
Recruiters (especially in the Financial markets) are out and looking. Sure, these are contract jobs, but that’s not a bad thing by any measure!
If you’re still looking for a place to set your pen, look towards the money.
I haven’t dealt with these for about 7 years.
Wow.
Another call for electronic editing…
A plague among Tech Writers is the Verbose Writer. The one who buries the reader in terms, words and heavy language.
Be A Minimalist. It’s easy.
How?
Start here.
Zen Habits is a great Site to learn the ways of simplicity. Writing does not need to be complex, neither does the art of being technical.
An economy of words will [...]
WebResources Depot has a list of 10 pretty good starters for ScreenCasting.
I’m in about elbow deep in some projects pushing my knowledge envelope. Some are “work related” some are related to personal projects. Hopefully I’ll be able to unveil them soon!
Either way? Fun! I love screencasting…even though that name is becoming obsolete.
When the sound of my Outlook calendar groaning drifted across my office I knew I had fifteen minutes to prepare for a rapid-fire succession of meetings that would last three hours . . . the “Agile Gauntlet”. It was a daily occurrence and a price I willingly paid for the opportunity to write documentation in [...]