Archive for June, 2009

Identity and Authority: Why the Foundation of Documentation is Changing

Posted in Content Strategy, Online Help & Documentation, Technical Writing, User Communities, User Engagement on June 22nd, 2009 by Louis Marascio – Comments
Last week I attended the Web Content 2009 conference in Chicago. I found the conference informative and entertaining. I was glad to see useful content about an emerging and troubling issue: the identity crisis of the technical communicator. However, I was surprised to see the topic show up in a marketing discussion. On the second [...]

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Old Media, Technical Writers, and the Evolution of Documentation

Posted in Technical Writing, User Communities, User Engagement on June 4th, 2009 by Louis Marascio – Comments
I’ve previously discussed the evolution of technical writing and documentation on this blog, in fact that’s one of the primary topics I tend to orbit around. Regular readers will by now understand my fundamental belief that technical writers are an important and underutilized asset to most businesses; however, I also believe that technical writers have [...]

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