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• I'm a senior technical writer for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. I'm also the one who manages this site.

My Posts

• Alltop - Top Technical Writing News

  November 30, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: alltop, content aggregator, RSS
  

   

• Technical communication, past, present and future: a review [TechScribe software documentation].

  November 29, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: future, trends
  

   

• Manifesto — Slow Blog.

  November 29, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: blogging, fast pace, keeping up
  

   

• The Blogosphere is Not Dead. So What’s Really Happening?.

  November 24, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: blogging, blogosphere, technorati
  

   

• Information scent: helping people find the content they want » Step Two Designs. (Thanks to Geoff Sauer for pointing this out.)

  November 24, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: navigation, usability
  

   

• Usability Post » Usability Tip: Use Verbs as Labels on Buttons

  November 24, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: labels, usability
  

   

• A typical day « Don’t Call Me Tina

  November 21, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: careers, day, tasks
  

   

• Huge Buried Water Glaciers Discovered on Mars | Wired Science from Wired.com

  November 21, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  
  

   

• Writing Technically: User is king.

  November 21, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: correction, edits, punctuation, style
  

   

• Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own

  (Thanks to Sarah O’Keefe for this link.)

  November 21, 2008 | 1 | permalink |
  
  

   

• Will Write for Metamucil: User Assistance

  November 19, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: age, translation, video
  

   

• Becoming a technical communicator by Communications from DMN

  November 19, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: careers in technical writing
  

   

• The Psychology of Waiting Lines

  November 18, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: psychology, waiting
  

   

• How a Teacher Reminded Me Why I’m a Writer > Gryphon Mountain Journals

  November 17, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: creativity, dreams, writing
  

   

• PDF Manuals: The Wrong Paradigm for an Online Experience :: UXmatters

  November 17, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: online help, paper, printed PDF
  

   

• TwitterBerry [User Review]

  November 14, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: blackberry, twitter, twitterberry
  

   

• Results of a Study about Online Experience — Gryphon Mountain Journals

  November 14, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: appearance, content, design
  

   

• Writer Profile: John Hewitt, Technical Writer and Poet Warrior - Quiet Rebel Writer

  November 14, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: career, internet, poetry, writing
  

   

• Share the Love - a social network poetry sharing site

  November 12, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: poetry, social networking
  

   

• gladwell.com: The Uses of Adversity

  November 12, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: adversity
  

   

• The Lazy Man’s Guide to Getting Things Done | Zen Habits.

  November 12, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: efficiency, productivity
  

   

• Links Roundup: Technical Writing | Shanghai Tech Writer.

  November 12, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  
  

   

• Adobe Acrobat.com — Free online web conferencing through Acrobat.com. I think it’s limited to 3 people, but still, how cool!

  November 10, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: adobe, conferencing, web sharing, webinar
  

   

• BuddyPress » A Wordpress MU Based Social Network Platform

  November 10, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: social networking, wordpress
  

   

• What’s New in Camtasia Studio 6, TechSmith’s Screen Recording Software.

  November 6, 2008 | 1 | permalink |
  Tags: camtasia, video recording
  

   

• Communications from DMN » Talking shop with Anne Gentle

  November 5, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: community, dita, wikis
  

   

• Presentation Zen: Think graphic design doesn’t matter?

  November 4, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: design, visual, voting
  

   

• UX Designers Focus On Your Users | Designing User Experience.

  October 31, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: design, programmers, user experience
  

   

• DocTrain East, day two by Communications from DMN.

  October 31, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: dita, doc train, social media
  

   

• Mad Hatter :: Conferences Help Authoring Tools :: DocTrain East Conference currently taking place.

  October 31, 2008 | comments | permalink |
  Tags: dita, HAT, help authoring tools
  

   

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