Tips for Technical Communicators
I formerly blogged on Steyer.net, offering insights for technical communications workers: how your project manager thinks, how to cope when working in the technology sector as a contract employee.
Here are the Steyer Associates posts along with parallel posts on this blog that focus on related issues for fiction writers.
- Back to the Future (May 2015)
[We are all Content Providers Now] - 5 Pet Trick with Spreadsheets (April 2015)
[DIY Tricks for Writers] - “Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”(late March 2015)
- “I’ve Got a Little List” (early March 2015)
- “You Want How Much Done? By When?” (early February 2015)
[I’d write less, but there wasn’t time in the schedule] - Program Management 101 – Session #1 (January 2015)
[Making Lists that Matter – Intro to PM] - Stage Fright Part II: Your Writing Sample (October 2014)
[Stage Fright: Your Sample & Your Back Cover Text] - Stage Fright Part 1: Your Resume(September 2014)
[Your Resume: Stage Fright Much?] - Making It Easy: The Basics (August 2014)
[Making it Easy for the Fiction Reader] - Ch-ch-ch-changes (late July 2014)
[Ch-ch-ch-changes – Dubstep version] - Ready for Review? A Checklist (mid-July 2014)
[Checklist for Writer/Editor Collaborations] - Peer Review Redux (June 2014)
[Tips for Beta Reviewers] - You Get What You Measure (May 2014)
[…Technical Communications Edition …Measure: Fiction Edition] - Lions and Tigers and Peer Review—Oh No!(Apr 2014)
[Raining Green Ink] - Mistakes Were Made: Yours, Mine, Theirs (Mar 2014)
[What Happens If I Click This?] - Writer vs. Editor = Spy vs. Spy? (Feb 2014)
[Editor/Writer in Tech Comms: No fighting, No biting] - Procrastinating … or Preplanning (Jan 2014)
[Preplanning? Si! … Procrastinating? No!] - “You Are Old Father William” (Dec 2013)
[Performing age in the tech-comms workplace] - Let’s (Not) Be Friends (Nov 2013)
[Boundaries between managers and team members] - Is it Political or Personal? (Oct 2013)
[Coping on dysfunctional teams] - 4 Rules of Thumb for Weekly Reports (Sept 2013)
[…and adding my own status report example] - Understanding the Triangle: Cost + Quality + Time (Aug 2013)
[Why I bullied editors into compromising quality] - Getting Started: Managing Up at Steyer.net (July 2013)
[“Your only job is to make me look good”]
