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I'm my own department, but at this point in my career, I'd kill just to
have my own office with a door on it. I'm in the middle of the phone
help department (thanks to the infinite wisdom of the higher-ups here),
and, believe it or not, it can hinder the concentration sometimes.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:13 AM
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Subject: Re: Desiging your Documentation/Writing Department
My ideal would be to have a staff consisting of technical writers,
editors, technical illustrators, developers, publishers, and IT
engineers.
Writers - focus on developing content.
Editors - focus on detailed editing of what writers produce Illustrators
- focus on providing clean, consistent, accurate illustrations in
support of content development Developers - focus on building sample
applications, integrating Help, and maintaining code-side documentation
Publishers - focus on producing all deliverables for all writing
projects IT - DBA or like role supporting a CMS
This is an ideal, but will likely not be a reality outside of very large
shops.
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Bill Swallow
HATT List Owner
WWP-Users List Owner
Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter http://techcommdood.blogspot.com
avid homebrewer and proud beer snob
"I see your OOO message and raise you a clue."
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