RE: This too is technical communication

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Don't light up just yet! Your previous post said that they had "refused
to document some internal stuff." That kind of decision is generally
made outside of the publications department. Doesn't sound to me like a
situation that a tech writer could fix.

But if you're looking for financial disasters that a good tech writer
*could* have prevented:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1999/Dec/hour1_120399.html

http://blockquote.be/2006/03/24/

http://www.jnj.com/news/jnj_news/20050603_104923.htm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:28 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: This too is technical communication
> 
> ... "EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes told the Guardian 
> that she was near the end of her patience. "I don't have eternal 
> life," Kroes remarked. "I am not impressed if someone says 90 
> percent of the information is already there when we need 100 
> percent. It's a jigsaw and some parts are missing...
> 

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