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Technical Communication Poll: What content do you publish to your corporate blogs?

Written by Connie Giordano on June 18, 2013

Now that you've had a chance to take a stand on the corporate blog content you search out as a consumer, it's time to turn the question back to technical communication and content management and corporate blogs. If you work for a traditional technical communication department, a trendy content management team, or some as yet-to-be-named hybrid communications function, we want to hear from you about what kinds (and formats) of content you publish to your corporate blogs. Continue reading »

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Users’ Advocate: We Have to Treat the Buyer as a User

Written by Mark Baker on June 17, 2013

Traditionally tech comm has tried to steer clear of marketing and all its works. Many tech writers still seem to have a strong aversion to anything that smacks of marketing, regarding it as either fluff, or outright dishonest. Here’s the problem, though. The buyer is a user too, and what works for the novice user, or for the expert user, does not always work for the buyer. Continue reading »

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TechWhirl: Technical Communication Recap for June 14, 2013

Written by Connie Giordano on June 14, 2013

If anyone were to ask me what online references I use the most during the course of a workday, they might be surprised to learn that acronymfinder.com ranks near the top (after TechWhirl.com and Thesaurus.com of course). Maybe it’s just me or an age factor, but I'm finding more and more initialisms and acronyms creeping into what I read, what I write and what I edit. I think perhaps I didn't eat enough alphabet soup when I was a kid. Continue reading »


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