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Being part of team WAS RE: assessing a lone-writer gig
Subject:Being part of team WAS RE: assessing a lone-writer gig From:"Jones, John B." <jj7018 -at- att -dot- com> To:"Pro TechWriter" <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>, "Mary Arrotti" <mary_arrotti -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:01:56 -0400
Mary wrote:
>I definitely want to part of the project team, and from the beginning,
like
>you said. I have had to justify this, but it didn't take the team long
to
>find that I knew what *everyone* was working on, sometimes when they
didn't.
>And, I take excellent notes :-) that many team members have liked
access
>to.
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I agree it is important to have access to application builds and team
members for the job, but I am extremely hesitant to become the team
"note-taker" at meetings. People start relying on you to become a
secretary and who knows if you correctly capture everything that's
flying around.
John B Jones
Technical Writer
Reachview Technologies
AT&T Service Assurance
Atlanta, GA
john -dot- jones2 -at- bellsouth -dot- com
jj7018 -at- att -dot- com
jjones -at- reachview -dot- com
770-927-9131
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