Archive for April, 2008
Why Must There Be A Balancing Act?
Rahel Anne Bailie–who blogs over here –left some interesting comments on our post: “Please Tell Me He Was Kidding…” which I am paraphrasing here:
There’s a saying that goes like this: If you can’t measure the effects, it’s not worth doing…. Technical communicators have been punters in this arena. I’ve worked for decades in departments where [...]
The Expanded Roles of Professional Communicators in Other R&D-Intensive Organizations
In continuing our discussion on the role of professional communicators we will examine the changing roles of communicators in other research and development organizations to see what can be learned by those writing in the life science R&D arena.
In the aerospace proposal industry, for example, “best-in-class” billion dollar organizations rely heavily on seasoned writing [...]
Please tell me he was kidding…
I just got back from the local Society for Technical Communication chapter meeting where I listened to Scott Abel (http://www.thecontentwrangler.com and http://thecontentwrangler.ning.com) talk about why technical communicators need to embrace technology, and more importantly, embrace metrics as a way to demonstrate the need for more technology as a way to improve document quality. He pitched [...]