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How to Get Out of Technical Writing and into Better Paid Jobs

October 5th, 2009 · View Comments · Career, India

Many IT professionals, technical writers included, have seen their salaries frozen or reduced over the past 18 months. Contractors are suffering the same fate as short-term projects dry up.
However, several of my colleagues have managed to move out of technical writing and into other, better paid lines of work. Here’s a roundup.

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Should Gmail be the Hub of Your Company’s Social Media Strategy?

July 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing

Should Gmail be the Hub of Your Company’s Social Media Strategy?

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Connect Facebook To Twitter, more options coming soon

July 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Facebook

Facebook hosted a conference call on July 1 to introduce new privacy settings. It plans to offer new settings so you can share links, text, video and photographs with your friends, sub-set of their friends, or ‘everyone.’ At the moment, you can only share these with your friends.

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New TweetDeck lets you manage multiple accounts & sync with iPhone

July 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

New TweetDeck lets you manage multiple accounts & sync with iPhone

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How to link your Flickr and Twitter accounts

June 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Facebook

You can now link your Flickr account to Twitter, allowing you to send photos in real-time to this very powerful social media application. Before you start, you might want to read the tips on getting started over on the Flickr Twitter Beta site. It’s an easy read and you’re bound to pick up some nice [...]

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Wikipedia Join Forces with StumbleUpon.com

June 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

Wikipedia Join Forces with StumbleUpon.com

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Achilles heel in Amazon Kindle – KindleGate: Confusion Abounds Regarding Kindle Download Policy

June 21st, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

Achilles heel in Amazon Kindle – KindleGate: Confusion Abounds Regarding Kindle Download Policy

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Social Media & Web 2.0 Mosaic

June 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing

Social Media & Web 2.0 Mosaic

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First Thoughts on Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine

June 1st, 2009 · View Comments · How To

The entrance of Bing to the search engine market has triggered the predictable Google Killer articles, denouncements of all things Microsoft, and a few insights into what it actually does. This is the first in a series of articles on Bing, where we’ll try to sift the wheat from the chaff, so you can get an idea of where Bing stands in the overall scheme of things.

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Interview with Vinish Garg, vhite.com

May 24th, 2009 · View Comments · How To

Vinish Garg is the Director of vhite.com, an Indian technical writing firm that provides technical documentation and medical writing consultancy services. I interviewed Vinish recently and asked him how he started as a technical writer, about technical writing in India, and new trends he sees emerging in this field.

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