RE: Reasons Your Company Needs Technical Commicators

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

I think approaching organizations that use Six Sigma is the best chance.
They are obsessed with quality and may well be interested.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com
 

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> Ronquillo, Michael wrote:
> > LOL well I'd like to get a non Technical Writer's point of 
> view. I'm 
> > sure they'll say something like oh, we can do it ourselves, 
> anyone can 
> > write!
> 
> I'm working on this very problem right now. Currently, from 
> what I can tell, there are a grand total one ONE tech writer 
> jobs open in my geographical area, and I'm unlikely to be the 
> lucky candidate, owing to the odds.
> 
> There are, of course, dozens if not hundreds of firms who 
> have documentation that stinks, if it exists at all. Will 
> they do anything about it? Only if it hurts. I'd like to know 
> how to make it hurt, but if I'm the one who finds and exposes 
> their problem, I'm hardly likely to be asked to fix it.
> 
> This is a "marketing" issue, and marketing is key to just 
> about any business, but that Gryphon stuff does not look 
> compelling enough to me.
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