Author: wpoint

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Social Media / Technical Writing

Why Social Media is Important to Technical Writers

A long time ago...the world was created...and in this great world, there was a great order of communication with many laws. One law stated that engineers should not be allowed to speak to end-users and so, technical writers were born. Okay, that's not really how or why we were created. But the reality is, technical writers did come into existence because there was a gap between a user's ability to instantly understand a program or a product without…

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December 6, 2015
Agile

Scrum Resources

Over the last few months as we have watched one of our clients move to Agile, we've been asked by various project and product managers to help them figure out how documentation would function within their changing environment - the options were, at all times, relatively simple. In, out, alongside, after.... The complicated part was determining not what the options were, but which one would best serve the company and the end-users. During these discussions, we have used…

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November 26, 2014
Job Searching

How to Get a Job

Once again, I've chosen to join the JobMob annual guest blogging contest. To be honest, there's something that bothers me about it - as much as they want quality content, ultimately it is all about how much traffic you can drive to their site in a short period of time. So, I'm running an experiment - I want to prove quality and quantity count - so please help me out. The topic I chose was one that is…

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September 1, 2014
Uncategorized

War and Technical Writing

The title seems particularly appropriate now, as Israel has just fought a relatively long and difficult war. I won't get into the politics of it - other than to say that I heard from many technical writers who found it difficult to work, to concentrate. Many were going to bomb shelters regularly during the work week as sirens sounded nearby. For me, a lot of the war was worrying about our soldiers and civilians, friends who live particularly…

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August 14, 2014