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Category Archives: consulting
Translating Wisdom into a Career Path
As I’ve gotten older and have done more unusual things with my career, I’ve found more people asking me for advice. Not just students but peers, which is gratifying because the target audience for Heroic Technical Writing is quite a … Continue reading
Posted in consulting, freelancing, personal
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Putting on Your Lawyer Hat
One rare occasions, I’ve provided an initial “lawyer’s eye” review of small business documents. This has occurred simply because I have a general idea of the sorts of things lawyers will nitpick. That said, whenever I’ve reviewed business agreements, employment … Continue reading
Posted in clients, consulting, education, freelancing, leadership, management, Office Politics, philosophy, workplace
Tagged contracts, lawyers, legal documents, regulations, small business
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Guest Speaking Summary: Starting Your Technical Writing Business
I was asked to be a guest Zoom speaker for the North Alabama chapter meeting of the Society for Technical Communication. My talk was on February 4. I was asked to speak about the process of starting your own business, … Continue reading
Marketing as a Long-Term Consultant
I spent the first year and a half of my freelancing life taking any job I could find. Some of it was work I wanted, some of it wasn’t. I was not particularly adept at marketing myself as a solo … Continue reading
Handling Large Projects Remotely
I was asked to join a last-minute document push last week, and it was an interesting, in-the-moment case study of how to get a lot of work done by a lot of people in a remote-operation. Not everything went smoothly, … Continue reading
Posted in consulting, leadership, management, meetings, social media, technical writing, Technology, workplace
Tagged remote work, teamwork
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