I am a long-time technical writer who has finally decided to get into this blogging caper. I read a lot of blogs, and participate in other blogs in a bit of a random fashion. It's a great way to maintain the writing habit and get published!
Over the years I've got to know quite a bit about help authoring tools, and Word and the other Office modules, so these issues will be my main topics. And blogs seem to be a great place to keep up to date with new technology trends and tools, so there'll be plenty to have an opinion on.
But what is a technical writer, I hear you ask? We're a bit like used help salesmen - we take the existing information out of specifications, out of people's heads, or out of the air (trial and error), then polish it up so that it works, it's useful, it's nice and shiny, and "sell" it to the users.
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