I’ve had some reservations about LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanwalsh) and didn’t join up until last year. Most of the technical writers I spoke to didn’t seem to get much return on the site and looked elsewhere. I should add that most of these were job-hunting and looking to make quick connections. For them it didn’t work.
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Using LinkedIn To Find Technical Writing Contract Work
July 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Linkedin
Tags: contract·Facebook·Jobs. Career·Linkedin·Proposal·Technical·Work·writing
10 Ways to Create Strong Passwords That You Can Remember Easily
May 27th, 2010 · View Comments · Productivity
How strong are your passwords? In the movie SpaceBalls, the password to all the earth’s natural resources was…12345. It’s a comedy but you get the idea. All those efforts to control the planet and the password is child’s play. I attended a course in London last year and one of the topics covered security. Here [...]
Tags: Facebook·Hack·Passwords·Paypal·plan·Privacy·security·Testing
Subscribe to any Posterous Blog via Email
February 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Social Media
You can now subscribe to any blog on Posterous by email. They’ve updated its autopost tool so that your friends on Facebook and Twitter can stay updated with your blog as well as friends that are not on these networks but want to stay connected. FYI: You can also publish blog posts to Posterous by [...]
Tags: blogging·Communications·email·Facebook·Posterous·social media·subscriptions·Twitter
Gina Blednyh Interview: How Social Media Will Make You A Better Technical Writer
February 22nd, 2010 · View Comments · Technical Writing
Gina Blednyh launched the Technical Communication 2.0 group in Facebook in 2009. It explores the interplay between Web 2.0 and technical communication. It’s a terrific place to exchange ideas about collaborative technologies and new approaches to delivering information. In this interview, I ask her how Technical Writers can use Social Media and the types of [...]
Tags: Documentation·Facebook·Help·Leadership·social media·Technical Authoring Tools·technical communication·Technical Writing·Video Blogging
Don’t Feed The Trolls!
February 10th, 2010 · View Comments · Communications, Facebook, Google, How To, Linkedin
I have a troll. Do you? Trolls slither over the internet. They start as lurkers, then get brave, creep out and spit things at you. 10 out of 10 trolls feed on attention. Negative or positive – they don’t care. Attention is the oxygen that keeps them going. Here’s the story of how I found my troll and what we may do next?
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 [...]
Tags: Anne Gentle·Bill Swallow·Dita·Facebook·Gordon McLean·Jing·News·Technical Documents·Technical Writing·Tom Johnson·Wikis
Web 2.0 meets Technical Communication on Facebook
January 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Facebook, People
This group’s purpose is to explore the interplay between Web 2.0 and technical communication. Join us to discuss collaborative technologies and new approaches to delivering information to customers. Unlike other technical writing groups on Facebook, there is a nice amount of activity going on here. It has that nice, bubbly energy you get with a new group. So, jump in if you want to connect with other technical writers and see where/how technical communication works with Web 2.0.
How Technical Writers Can Move Further Up The Food Chain
January 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Career, Content Management, How To, Linkedin
Do you feel loved? Many technical writers feel unloved. They feel they don’t get the respect they deserve. I hear this on LinkedIn and Facebook: “people don’t respect the work I do.” Well, if that’s the case, here are a few ways to get more respect and move into a more rewarding career.
Tags: Add new tag·Career·China·Facebook·Linkedin·Respect·strategy·technical writer
7 Ways for Technical Writers to Re-invent Themselves & Demonstrate their Value
January 9th, 2010 · View Comments · Career, Facebook, Linkedin
You’ve just being fired. The Technical Writing dept is closed. What do you do? This is a fact of life for many people today. Indeed, there is now a real fear that US technical writers will continue to lose their jobs to offshore companies, e.g. India & Poland. And it’s true; it’s the shape of things to come, I’m afraid. But rather than moan about it, let’s look at what you can do to re-invent yourself and find new, lucrative opportunities.
Tags: Add new tag·Career·China·Facebook·Flickr·Future·Jobs·Linkedin·Outsourcing·Project management·Social network·Technical Writers·trends·Twitter
How to Interview Technical Writers Even If You’re Not a Technical Writer
January 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Career, How To, Jobs
Yes, I’m that terrible person who interviews technical writers and asks those awkward questions. Here are some of the things I’m looking for when I interview people. First, companies expect that graduates will have the same (more or less) writing skills – that’s a given. So, what they’re looking for are other qualities.
10 Best Mistakes I Made in 2009
November 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Career, Technical Writing
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. If you don’t know your mistakes you’re going to repeat them. Here’s my best mistakes.
Tags: Adobe Framemaker·Career·contract·contracts·Facebook·GTD·India·MadCap Flare·Online Help·Podcast·rates·Robohelp·Single Sourcing·Social network·STC·Structured Authoring·Technical Communications·Technical documentation·Technical Writing·Twitter
Interview with TweetDeck Founder
October 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
For those of you with an interest in social media and real-time data distribution, Adobe’s Andrew Shorten talks to Iain Dodsworth, founder of TweetDeck, about his experiences of developing this AIR application and how using Adobe technology contributed to TweetDeck’s success. See this intervieww withTweetdeck_Founder
Tags: Adobe Platform Evangelist Andrew Shorten·Facebook·Iain Dodsworth·Illustrator·MySpace·Platform Evangelist·Tweetdeck·Twitter
Why TechSmith should make Jing Pro Free
October 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Screen Capture, Snagit
Why TechSmith should make Jing Pro Free
Tags: Camtasia Studio·Facebook·Flickr·Free·H.264+AAC·high-definition·Jing·Limitations·MPEG-4·Screencast.com·Screenshot·Snagit·Techsmith·Twitter·Viddler·Video recording·Vimeo·YouTube
How to Get Your Email Answered
October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Books I Like, How To, Microsoft Excel, Productivity
Chris Brogan (read and bookmark!) just hit a new milestone. He’s now getting over 600 emails a day on average. 50% were people asking me his time, 25% were “really nice people,” 20% were business opportunities, and 5% were friends. A quick bit of math: if he answered 1 email a minute, 600 emails would [...]
Tags: Chris Brogan·email·Facebook·Google·google docs·Google Spreadsheets·Productivity·social media·Social network·Time-wasting·Twitter
