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Category Archives: peers
Staffing for Events
Continuing my riff on Event Management, today I’ll be discussing recruiting team members for the event. A reader commented about an external event management company on the last post, so let me clarify that the assumption for these posts is … Continue reading
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Tagged event management, volunteering
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Technical Writing and Event Management, Revisited
I’ve written about event management a couple of times before (here and here, for example). However, I’ve not written about the activity in a comprehensive way because I have this lurking fear that if people see me writing about event … Continue reading
Posted in careers, clients, leadership, management, meetings, peers, personal, proposal writing, technical writing, volunteering, workplace
Tagged event management
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Friday Miscellany
I don’t have a single, long thought to share with you this week. However, I have a few shorter ones related to technical editing that you might find of value. Or not. Stranger things have happened.
Posted in blogging, consulting, editing, freelancing, graphics, management, peers, personal, technical writing, workplace
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Interview Questions: Caroline G, University of Limerick Student
A while back, I got a request from a student at the University of Limerick (Ireland) who wanted to interview me for her class. The magic of Zoom allowed this to happen. We were constrained by a time limit, so … Continue reading
Posted in audience, blogging, careers, clients, consulting, documentation, documents, editing, education, freelancing, graphics, interviews, job hunting, marketing, peers, research, technical writing, workplace
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Life in the Time of COVID
I can see a point–maybe 2-4 years from now–where I’ll need to put out an updated version of the Heroic Technical Writing book because it was written with the pre-COVID world in mind. As we creep up on the beginning of … Continue reading