Category Archives: social media

Transitioning from Freelance Life Back to Full-Time Employment

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Bart Leahy

If you read the past few months’ entries, you’ll see that I’ve had an interesting year, which began with being told that my ongoing (it would have been eight years as of May 30) contract with Nissan would be coming … Continue reading →

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Writing and Distributing Surveys

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Bart Leahy

As some of my regular readers might know, I tried to distribute a survey as part of my “Arts and Recreation on Mars” paper for Kepler Space Institute. The goal was to assess how people consumed/engaged with art or recreation … Continue reading →

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Handling Errors in Social Media

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Bart Leahy

A few years ago, I wrote a post about handling errors on social media. Recently Matt, a regular reader of Heroic Technical Writing (thank you!), found an example of this sort of situation in the wilds of the working world and wanted … Continue reading →

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Guest Speaking Summary: Starting Your Technical Writing Business

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Bart Leahy

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 →

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Handling Large Projects Remotely

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Bart Leahy

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 →

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