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RE: Refining My "Cutting Edge" Technical Writing Skills Post
Subject:RE: Refining My "Cutting Edge" Technical Writing Skills Post From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:18:17 -0400
Ted...we could answer the question so much clearer if we knew what field you
were in.
In my field, anything having to do with Windows Distributed Network
Architecture and relational databases. Prior gig, anything having to do with
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), prior to that, Asset Management.
What field are YOU in?
>In creating the posting, I may not have made myself clear. Specifically, I
>was looking for technical skills that would place a technical writer at the
>forefront of their craft as it is practiced today. Obviously, the skills
I mean, what good would it be to learn XML if nothing in your field has
anything to do with it? What if I went to my management and said "I know
lots about UNIX". "So? We don't have anything about UNIX for you to write
about."
It's no longer good enough to know alot any technology unless it has to do
with the technology you are writing about?
John Posada
Information Hunter-Gatherer
Special Projects; Information Technology
Barnes&Noble.com
NY: 212-414-6656
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