radical revamping of techpubs

Bill Swallow techcommdood at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 19:54:41 PDT 2007


I don't buy your "few companies" generalization. Perhaps small pre-IPO
companies and the like, but I've not met an established company that
didn't have a solid tech writing staff in place.

On 10/10/07, Chris Borokowski <athloi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My prediction is that it will be a partial disaster, and then they'll
> hire a contractor to come clean up. Few companies are interested in
> keeping technical writers around full time, since they're only needed
> at the end of the design process. They want dual roles, such as project
> manager technical writers, developer technical writers and probably
> even technical writers who can cook to reduce catering costs.

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