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“The great new tool for writing a book today is a blog …”
Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted in Blogging | 20 Comments »
In a recent episode on The Engaging Brand podcast, business coach Anna Farmery interviews Mark Sanborn, author of You don't need a title to be a leader, on the ... Read more..My Blog and Podcast Site Are Now Merged into One — Steps on How I Did It
Saturday, December 29th, 2007 Posted in Blogging, Podcasting | 11 Comments »
I merged my blog (idratherbewriting.com) and podcast (techwritervoices.com) into one site. If you go to techwritervoices.com, it redirects to idratherbewriting.com. All the posts that were on techwritervoices.com are now on ... Read more..Jeter Interviews Mike Hamilton at Former Blue Sky Software Office in La Jolla, Calif.
Saturday, December 29th, 2007 Posted in Technical Writing | 17 Comments »
Charles Jeter recorded an excellent podcast with Mike Hamilton, V.P. of product management at Madcap Software, and posted it on his blog yesterday. Jeter is a technical writer in the ... Read more..“Could you please tell me what the job of a technical writer is like?”
Friday, December 21st, 2007 Posted in Technical Writing | 26 Comments »
I recently received an email from a reader who asked to know what the job of a technical writer is like. Anoop writes, I am a computer science Master's student at ... Read more..Adventures with the New Technical Communication Suite from Adobe (mostly RoboHelp 7 and Captivate)
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 Posted in Technical Writing | 25 Comments »
Rob Houser's recent article in Writers UA, "What's New in RoboHelp 7?", is a thorough, insightful article I highly recommend. After reading his review, I thought I'd post a few ... Read more..The Hardest Part About Blogging: Coming Up With Something Interesting to Say
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 Posted in Blogging | 3 Comments »
I'm going to be presenting on blogging within the next several months, and without a doubt, the hardest part about blogging is not the technical aspect. The hardest part is ... Read more..Why People Think Help Is Useless, and How To Change This Thought
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 Posted in Technical Writing | 20 Comments »
I've been rethinking a previous post I wrote about the best response to the remark, "Nobody reads the help anyway. " A better response is to ask people (at just ... Read more..Myths of Innovation: Brilliant Ideas Come From Constant Reflection, Not Random Chance
Saturday, December 15th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
After reading Scott Berkun's essay on the how to be a genius, I listened to some of his podcasts too. One myth is that geniuses get their ideas almost ... Read more..Interesting Technique for Discovering Software Changes and Building Rapport with developers
Saturday, December 15th, 2007 Posted in Technical Writing | 2 Comments »
You know the typical scenario -- the technical writer is the last one to be notified of changes to the application (be it interface or functionality), and developers hate reviewing ... Read more..Reading this post made me want to be a workaholic
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 Posted in Technical Writing | 6 Comments »
Reading this post by Scott Berkun made me want to be a workaholic. Here's an excerpt: Show me a genius and I’ll show you a workaholic. Van Gogh produced 2000 works ... Read more..