RE: A technique to get on development's good side

["Cliver, Barry" <CliverBarry -at- PRAIntl -dot- com>]

John wrote "My point was, reach out. Meet them more than half way and
they'll do the same. Know what you do and see if what you do, no matter
how trivial you think it is, is a service that you can offer that makes
you noticed."

I usually refrain from non-technical issues, but John is absolutely
right. Too often, tech writers build their own boxes of confinement. Ask
to test, lead projects, provide customer support, perform a client
installation, and so forth. I am trying to mentor junior writers in that
direction. A writer might be the master of online help, but the last
several years demonstrate that those jobs tend to disappear.

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