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”]