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Ten Tips to Keep You Upbeat while Unemployed

15. July 2009

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If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The barn where I board my horse is located in Sunol, which is about 30 minutes away from the heart of Silicon Valley. Because of this many boarders at the barn are professionals–engineers, graphic artists, technical writers. Unfortunately, because of [...]

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Social Networking and Technical Communicators

18. June 2009

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At the last Society for Technical Communication (STC) meeting, DJ Cline the President of the STC Silicon Valley chapter, asked those sitting at our table this question, “How many of you are using social networking tools, such as Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter?” Half of us at the table, raised our hands. Those who did not [...]

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Part 1 of the STC Conference: Future Trends for Technical Communicators

27. May 2009

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Future trends. Structured content. Wikis. Book sprints. What do these buzz words have in common?  These were all topics I learned about while at the Society for Technical Communication (STC) Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia this year. Since I hadn’t attended an STC conference in years, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Luckily, I was pleasantly surprised. [...]

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Freelancer’s Strategies for Today’s Uncertain Economy

16. April 2009

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Now a days a lot of writers are in an “in-between state” or what Shelley DeLuca of Freelancing:Bizia calls the state of “meanwhile.” DeLuca writes that Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary gives two meanings for the word as an adverb: 1) during the intervening time, and 2) at the same time. For some, this is a waiting period caused [...]

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