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feedback

How to Give Proper Feedback to a Writer

04. Oct, 2011 8 Comments

Have you, as a writer, ever received feedback on a doc that didn’t give you what you need? As an editor or stakeholder, have you ever had to give feedback on a doc, but it didn’t work out as well as you’d hoped? I think sometimes the problem is that the person giving edits doesn’t [...]

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General Writing
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Grammar! That vs. Which

07. Mar, 2011 8 Comments

The words “which” and “that” have a long and tangled history together. I’d guess that most native English-speakers don’t recognize a difference between the words in most sentences. For example: The spaceship that looked like a tulip crashed into my swimming pool. The spaceship which looked like a tulip crashed into my swimming pool. Most [...]

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Language/Usage, Tech Comm
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A Resource for Technical (and Other) Communicators….

A Resource for Technical (and Other) Communicators….

01. Dec, 2010 Comments Off

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Some Online Resources for Tech Comm

23. Nov, 2010 3 Comments

Here are links to blogs and other resources for Tech Comm on the Net….

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Net and Tech, Tech Comm
A Better Place for Related Topics

A Better Place for Related Topics

30. May, 2010 0 Comments

…usability tests, my group found that people just don’t click the Related Topics button. Which made us sad, because we’d put good content in there. Maybe I should say we had HIDDEN good content in there….

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Tech Comm
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coming soon

Never Say “Coming Soon”

27. May, 2010 1 Comment

Here’s something that I’ve learned through hard experience.

Never say or imply that some feature, app, update, or anything else, is coming soon….

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Tech Comm
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Signing In

Signing In

25. May, 2010 2 Comments

Do you “sign into” the web site, or “sign in to” the web site? It’s used both ways all over the place, but in my opinion, only one way makes sense….

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Language/Usage, Tech Comm