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Are Daily Rates for Technical Writers Starting To Improve?

January 29th, 2010 · View Comments · Career, Jobs, News

In December, I looked at the daily rates for technical writers and others in the tech comms industry. At the time daily rates for technical writers are down to $30 per hour in some places in the Bay Area. However, maybe things are starting to turn around. In Ireland (Euro HQ for most US IT companies) Google has announced 150 new jobs, many in technical roles. So, is the tide starting to turn?

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Technical Writing News – FrameMaker Shortcuts, Life-Saving Checklists & Twitter for Professional Development

January 28th, 2010 · View Comments · Adobe FrameMaker, Career, Content Management, Dita, Doc 2 Help, News, Snagit, Technical Writers, Technical Writing, Twitter, Visio

  Why are most technical writing blog written by men? Do you think it’s true? This week’s newsletter also has updates on Technical Authoring tools such as ComponentOne’s Editable Data Portals for SharePoint, Morae 3.2 (Techsmith’s best kept secret), and the beta version Microsoft Visio 2010. Learn how to fix Adobe Distiller bugs with Technical [...]

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Technical Writing News Jan 20 – Jumping Sharks, DITA, and Link Journalism

January 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Dita, Facebook, News, STC, Social Media, Technical Writers, Tools

This week’s technical writing news is thin on product news but has lotsa nice goodies. Janet Swisher on how everybody wins, Ellis on wikis for technical documents, Larry’s DITA jumps sharks, Techsmith integrate Jing (video capture app) into Facebook, Gordon McLean, Tom Johnson, Anne Gentle, and Bill Swallow. I try to follow as many RSS [...]

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Technical Writing News – Crystal Balls, Salaries, Metrics & Twitter

January 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Career, Linkedin, News, Technical Writing, Twitter

The first Technical Writing Newsletter of the year includes some interesting predictions on the future of technical communications, how to justify your role as a technical writer (i.e. metrics), news of Camtasia Relay’s UK Bootcamp and the results of the salary survey for technical writers in Israel.

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Technical Writing News – Nov 27th

November 27th, 2009 · View Comments · News, Technical Writing

This week’s technical writing news. Paragraph Autonumbering in RoboHelp 8, Avatar Interactive Trailer Powered by Adobe AIR, What’s new in Acrobat.com, The Myth of Single-Source Authoring, Why The Future Has No Log In Button, Documentation as flash cards. Google Wave’s witty user documentation. What’s more important, content or process? SaaS-based ECM: It’s worth considering. Camtasia Relay 1.2 gets released and Tom Johnson explains why Help Authoring Tools Will Fade. Free Gift! Technical Communication Suite Keyboard Shortcuts from The RoboColum(n) by Colum McAndrew

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Technical Writing News – Nov 20th

November 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Adobe RoboHelp, Content Management, Dita, Doc 2 Help, Google, MadCap Flare, News, Social Media, Technical Writing

Meet Captain Jing, eat Alphabetti Spaghetti, create lists in Robohelp, move technical writers to network thinking, LaTeX (not that type!), Why I Wasn’t Sold on Single Sourcing, The Moment I Felt Like an Executive, Does Your Company Need a Dedicated Tweeter? and how much does Darren Rowse earn from Blogging. What are you waiting for?

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Technical Writing News Nov 13th

November 13th, 2009 · View Comments · Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe RoboHelp, Content Management, Doc 2 Help, Freelance, MadCap Blaze, News, STC, Salary, Screen Capture

This week’s technical writing news includes RoboScreenCapture, a FrameMaker screenshot app, Twitter 101 for Technical Communicators, the New Help System in Visual Studio 2010, List of the Top Open Source technical writers on the Web, feedback on STC’s Dues Increases, and The Freelancer’s Guide to Working With Clients That SUCK.

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Technical Writing News – Nov 6th

November 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Adobe FrameMaker, News, Reviews, STC, Salary

New technical writing screencasts, Madcap win an award, and the Intercom editorial calendar is finally announced. What more could you want? Here is a quick roundup of this week’s technical writing news.

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Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for Lotus Notes

November 19th, 2007 · View Comments · How To, News, Tips, Word 2007

The Windows Desktop Search Add-in for Lotus Notes is a protocol handler that allows you to index the content of Lotus Notes e-mail, contacts, calendar items, and journal items stored on your computer. Once you have installed this Add-in, Windows Desktop Search (WDS) will index the content of your locally stored Lotus Notes databases. Indexing [...]

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Index Adobe PDF documents with Microsoft indexing clients

November 19th, 2007 · Comments Off · How To, News, Tips, Word 2007

iFilter is now bundled within the Acrobat and Reader products. Improvements to iFilter in Acrobat and Reader 8 include support for Vista and Windows Desktop Search, as well as improved performance and stability. Adobe® PDF IFilter lets your index Adobe PDF documents with Microsoft indexing clients. This allows the user to easily search for text [...]

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Document Conversion Service providers

November 19th, 2007 · Comments Off · How To, News, Tips, Word 2007

Advanced Computer InnovationsThe company’s Windows-based software products are sold to end-users as highly accurate off-the-shelf solutions. Advanced Computer Innovations, Inc. also provides data conversion and custom programming services, including an online conversion service. http://www.acii.com Data Conversion LaboratoryEnable data for the Internet or CD-ROM by converting it to structured formats like XML, SGML, and HTML. DCL [...]

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How to setup a Table as a Worksheet in Word 2000

November 19th, 2007 · Comments Off · How To, News, Tips, Word 2007

This article explains how to create simple worksheets in Microsoft Word by using tables and the Formula (=) field. In these worksheets, you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide values entered in cells. “Individual cells are referenced by column letter and row number in the form of “A1″, where A represents the column and 1 [...]

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You cannot open a document in Microsoft Word 2003

November 19th, 2007 · Comments Off · How To, News, Tips, Word 2007

The Microsoft Support center offers very details instructions on how to overcome this. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926909/en-us?spid=2530&sid=106

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How to add Date Calculations into Word

November 19th, 2007 · Comments Off · How To, News, Tips, Word 2007

View Woody’s Lounge and learn how to enter date & time calculations in Word. You can download the samples in a zip file. Topics covered include: Date & Time Field Basics Converting Gregorian Calendar Dates To Julian Day Numbers Converting Julian Day Numbers To Gregorian Calendar Dates Converting Julian Calendar Dates To Julian Day Numbers [...]

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2 FrameMaker Tutorials

November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off · How To, News, Tips, Word 2007

Learn to apply master pages automatically Thsi tutorial shows you how to apply master pages automatically. Let FrameMaker do the job based on the paragraph tags you’re already using. Also, if you have one file with multiple formats? Repurpose your content using XML – without having to learn XML syntax. Learn more here: http://www.adobe.com/ap/products/tips/framemaker.html

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