mjoneill

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by mjoneill 3y ago
> from my experience, professional writers are just low paid freelancers It tends to depend on the company...and what the writers are building, and of course, what the product is. Some products do not lend themselves well to a freelance
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by mjoneill 3y ago
BTW: If you want to connect, there's a professional society for the discipline: Society for Technical Communication (STC). https://www.stc.org They have local chapters in many geographies. Their annual conference is usually
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by mjoneill 3y ago
MadCap Flare was an awesome product. It grew out of the old BlueSky "RoboHelp" suite (which was also awesome) and could be used to output to many different formats (online help, web help, print docs, confluence). It's been
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by mjoneill 3y ago
Def. give a look at DITA...Darwin Information Typing Architecture is not a tool so much as an approach/framework that other products can support. Many modern tooling supports some of the DITA concepts, even if they aren't officia
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by mjoneill 3y ago
If this (or a similar policy) affects you and you suspect that it is an attempt by your employer to get you (and others) to quit in order to avoid having to pay severance, unemployment, etc... Understand what "constructive dismissal&q
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by mjoneill 4y ago
> Do newsletters work? Marketer here. Yes, they work very well...unless you're pumping out a crappy newsletter that nobody wants, doesn't provide value, etc. Not all products are the same, and not all sales funnels are identic
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by mjoneill 5y ago
Check out your local chapter of STC. The Society for Technical Communication has a job bank, but I think you need to be a member to access. Local chapters often share jobs without membership.
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by mjoneill 5y ago
Russia (Putin) is doing this now because Nato members are experiencing internal political discord, and the alliance itself is not presenting a unified front. The past US president threatened to stop aid to Ukraine unless they produced evid