Re: Information Engineers

["iFaqeer (SIA)" <techdarwaish -at- gmail -dot- com>]

As a person who chose to be a tech writer partly because I really do
not want to be a code monkey, that kind of thing scare, one could say
distress, me--that job descriptions for folks who monkey with content
and information must have coding and thinks like "network
administration skills" in them. It seems like just another expression
of the attitude a lot of engineering managers (and CEOs) have, that
"You're only valuable if you also do technical stuff."

Don't get me wrong, I have written my share of multimedia script--and
enjoyed it--and love to monkey with Blog templates in HTML and CSS.
But I don't think even that should get in the way of finding
someone--and in the way of opportunity for folks--who can "think in
information hierarchies", write good text, and so on.

I have taken to going around saying that the deployment of Web 2.0
(blogs, Wikis, etc.)  means that some of the most exciting new things
on the web are exciting because of the content that they carry and how
it is organized. (And the technology side is open/Open.) And in this
wave, us content folks should be more critical and be in there owning
and riding this wave to a large extent.

Am I making sense?

S

On 4/30/07, Hickling, Lisa (TOR) <lhickling -at- express-scripts -dot- com> wrote:
> Another example of titles meaning whatever one wants them to. Isn't the
> Information Engineer in the article's context yesterday's Reporting/Data
> Warehousing Analyst?
>
> I suspect that the Information Engineer/Architect who is a trained
> librarian was hired primarily for information taxonomy skills, so maybe
> tech writers like me who have coding skills should be Information
> Programmers!
>
> :^
>
> Lisa H.
> GTA, Ontario
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Snipped From: arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com
>
> CNN Money has a list of the "Top New New Careers". Coming in at number
> three is "Information Engineer" which some on this list have been, are,
> or could become.
>
>
> http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0704/gallery.jobs_new_careers.b
> iz2/3.html
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