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Subject:Re: new title: Information Developer From:Ed Gregory <edgregory -at- HOME -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:24:42 -0600
As a technical content developer, are you the person who designs those
little doodads they put in small plastic bags when I buy a
built-it-yourself piece of furniture?
Hey, how about these possible titles:
---Senior Documentationist
---Technical Documentation Team Leader
---Technical Typologist
---Instructional Information Engineer - This one for those among us who
"really wanted to be engineers".
---Fine Fact Finding Fellows (in the non-gender sense), or 4F for short.
- This one for those among us who would rather be farmers.
I'd offer more, but I have to get to my cubicle at Dilbert's Inferno. This
thread could be fun. A challenge! A prize to the person who creates the
most meaningless title!
At 10:02 AM 1/7/99 -0500, Kathy Borg-Todd wrote:
>To all Tech Writers, Content Developers, Info Designers, Word
>Wranglers, Grammar Gurus, et al:
>
>At the risk of making some of my more pompous colleagues irate, I
>prefer "Practitioner of the Invisible".
>
>At 09:35 AM 1/6/99 -0800, George Beinhorn wrote:
>>SNIP>
>>
>>I'd rather be called a tech "editor" and do the real work of
>>clarifying and creating content.
>
>and still more...
>
>As you'll note in my signature, my title is "Technical Content
>Developer",
>which seems to strike a happy middle ground. Thoughts?
>
