Sometimes, if you look out the corner of your eye, you might see your life zip by in a blur. You’re moving so fast with family, work, home and all sorts of responsibilities that the days just meld one into the other. Holidays go even faster, discernable only by the shape of the chocolate. But [...]
My Blog’s One-Year Anniversary: A Retrospective & Lessons Learned
May 11, 2010 By 5 Comments
My blog is a year old. Yea! At this important milestone, it seems appropriate to take a moment and look back over this past year. I’ve learned quite a bit, have enjoyed it immensely, and am looking forward to implementing my plans for the future.
I’ll give a quick background, a development timeline, highlights, negatives, and [...]
Tech Writer or Tech Communicator? Or TechWtr?
April 4, 2010 By 8 Comments
For some reason, I just started thinking of the age-old debate of using Technical Writer or Technical Communicator (or variations thereof). My preference is neither: it’s Tech Writer. Short & crisp. Snappy. Other reasons are listed below.
1. I don’t want to be known as a Communicator, or have to introduce myself as such. I’m a [...]
Twitter Hashtags: Which Ones to Use – and When
February 26, 2010 By 3 Comments
You’ve seen them on tweets, no doubt. The hashtags. They provide a way to group and organize tweets, to bring them front and center, and to enable one to participate in a discussion with the Twitter community at large.
In case you’re wondering about using some, but not sure which, I’ve compiled a list from which [...]
7 Ways to Keep Up With Trends
February 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Two facts: we have to try and keep up with all the changes in IT, and we don’t have much time, if any, to do so. What can you do? Here are some ideas. They’ve been working well for me. Hopefully they will for you as well.
Blogs
Bloggers are out there in the trenches: finding information, [...]
On Writing and Finding Words
December 3, 2009 By 2 Comments
Now, I don’t know how other writers view the world of words, or all the letters and words available from which to choose when composing some sort of written material. For me, I always visualize words up in the sky, like stars, and when writing, I just reach up and gather some. Sometimes they’re easily [...]