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There is also the vague, "Member of Technical Staff" which offers no
clue as to one's profession.
I have noticed that companies usually go to titles like "Information
Developer" shortly after they start providing multi-medium offerings.
For example, they were "writers" when the only offering was a "paper"
manual. Then, they became "information developers" when they started
providing on-line help and CD-ROM forms of the documentation.
The "Information Developer" title seems popular with writers who work
in the multimedia arena because their job requires them to be more than
just a writer and deal with more than static illustrations and words
(e.g., music, voice narration, animatation, etc.).
In addition, some companies are combining customer documentation and
customer training so they writer is a document developer during the
first phase of the project and then becomes a training materials
developer and/or advertising materials collaborator. This is another
situation where "Information Developer" seems appropriate.
