RE: Still Seeking Your Thoughts About Technical Skills

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

Most of these are not technical skills...they are tools skills.  Technical
skill is how "it" works...not how "it" is used.

In my opinion, none of these, with the exception of two of them (XML and
software architecture) is going to help you obtain a position, unless the
position is to do it...example...Adobe InDesign is not going to get you a
position unless it is a position for being the InDesign person at a company.
You won't get a position BECAUSE you know Typography, unless it is for a BIG
layout and design company.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Special Projects; Information Technology
Barnes&Noble.com
NY: 212-414-6656 

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While defining technical skills is as difficult a task as defining 
pornography ("I know it when I see it..."), I believe the following are some

examples of skills that are either based in the knowledge of a software 
package or knowledge of a concept that goes beyond simply writing:

Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
XML
XSLT
Web usability
WebWorks Professional
Indexing
Page layout
Graphic design
Macromedia Flash
Typography
Information Mapping
VisualBasic
HTML
Software architecture
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