Re: Has technical writing fallen from grace?

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

In the case of tech writing, the "fad" would be whatever the writing was 
about, be it dotcom sites, complicated cell phones that lack user 
friendly UIs or what have you. All of these, in their time, generated 
"new" professions, which were really just existing ones that few people 
had heard of before because they were esoteric and required specialized 
knowledge to qualify for, but for brief periods generated short term 
opportunities at inflated rates of pay for people with lower level skills.

During the period from 1995-2000, the attendance at monthly meetings of 
the Silicon Valley Chapter of STC swelled to the hundreds, filled large 
convention halls at the Sunnyvale Hilton and formed long lines at the 
catered buffets.  By 2005, meetings had gone back to being held in the 
conference rooms of rotating host companies, with refreshments being 
carted in from Togo's.

Gene Kim-Eng



On 10/26/2014 11:03 AM, Daniel Friedman wrote: