Re: New Poll: Stability of your current tech pubs organization?

[Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

No option for this, so replying via email.

Other/not applicable: I'm a self-employed consultant.

Trends I've seen (not all apply to any one situation):
* shrinking: doing more with fewer people
* shifting: tech writers/tech comm professional groups either taking
on a wider variety of responsibility or shifting focus from
traditional technical writing practices to something new or a hybrid
approach to tech comm based on new needs
* advancement: employing smarter tools to enable capable writers to be
more productive
* devolution: abandoning infrastructure and practice
advancements/improvements for more rudimentary tools and processes to
suit a lesser qualified pool of writers, either contract or permanent
to "just get the job done"

Bill

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Deborah Ray <debray -at- raycomm -dot- com> wrote:
> Hey, Gang!
>
> Check out the new poll question on the TECHWR-L Web site:
>
> How would you describe the stability of your current technical publications
> team or organization?
>
> * Growing: Hiring new team members
> * Stable: Not hiring, but stable, consistent team
> * Holding our own: Have had departures, but hiring replacements
> * Shrinking: Have had departures, and not hiring replacements
> * Unstable: Departures (or multiple new hires) hindering progress
> * Unstable: Near future of our team within the company is uncertain
> * Unstable: Near future of our team is not expected to be positive

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