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Category: Computers and Technology  >>  Tech-Writing

10 Tips for Tech-Writers

By Glenn Murray   [ 27/07/2005 ]
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  • Follow a sensible career path…
    STEP 1: Start in a team
    STEP 2: Stay only just long enough
    STEP 3: Manage yourself
    STEP 4: Manage a team
    STEP 5: Go contracting (depends on the market)

  • Knowledge is your lifeblood – learn
    the politics of your company. Know who knows what.
    Find someone who consistently gives you timely, reliable,
    technically accurate answers, and get their name tattooed
    on your shoulder! Every company has at least one.
    And they may not be in the project manager/product
    manager/customer/programmer roles. They are generally
    the people who’ve used the product in the real
    world, and dealt with real world customers.

  • Communicate WITH, not AT. Tech-writers don’t
    have enough power to get away with communicating at.

  • Track stuff (take spreadsheet printout and
    write it up on the board).

  • Develop good product and domain knowledge
    – The more you can figure out for yourself, the
    better off you’ll be (and the more respect you’ll
    get from the techies).

  • Find out who your users are, what they are
    trying to do, what they are having trouble doing,
    and how they want to be helped. Then provide this
    assistance. Help the user do what they are trying
    to do. Don’t just tell them what the product
    can do… a help system is only helpful if it addresses
    the users’ needs.

  • Treat everyone as a customer. Then manage
    their expectations and your commitments. Always ensure
    they know what you’re doing. Tell them when you’ll
    be finished. And pull out all stops to meet your deadline.

  • Provide a surrogate user testing mechanism
    for the development team – providing usability
    feedback.

  • Work as hard as required to get good quality
    doco finished on time and to budget – this is
    how you’ll get the satisfaction out of work that
    you need.

  • Have fun with it.


  • Don’t become jaded and cynical by the high-tech,
    harsh, uncaring IT world. Use your smarts, and make
    the most of the resources provided. Most importantly
    of all, make work satisfaction your number 1 goal. It’s
    the best way to stay happy and get ahead.

    About the author:
    Glenn Murray is a website copywriter, SEO copywriter, and article submission and article PR specialist. He is a director of article PR company Article PR and also of copywriting studio Divine Write. He can be contacted on Sydney +612 4334 6222 or at glenn@divinewrite.com.
    Visit http://www.DivineWrite.com or http://www.ArticlePR.com for further details, more FREE articles, or to download his FREE SEO e-book.
    Although not essential, I would really appreciate it if you could notify me when you make the change as well.


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