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Subject:Re: Current industry trends for technical writers From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:42:33 -0700
I think virtually all software will move to the cloud model within the
next ten years, so that's maybe less of an area than a trend.
Trends in UI / UX probably mean less customer-facing end-user
documentation and more internal development and operations docs.
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Rich D <jaguarxox -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Hi Y'all,
>
> I'm looking a technical areas that may be needing more technical writers in
> the future, such as cloud-based technologies and security. Does anyone have
> experience or suggestions on which areas might need more writers now and in
> the future?
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