Emerging Skills Sets for Technical Writers

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Brevity alert

I’m in the middle of my construction project for the next two weeks, you will see some brief reports from which I’ll have to go indepth later in a Part 2.

Yet another trend report about Technical Writing shifting towards employment of Web 2.0.

Quoted from Head Spins: Emerging Skills Sets for Technical Writers

This month, as I persued job listings on , Monster , Careerbuilder , and Indeed, I found some companies are now looking for writers who, in addition to the core skills outlined above, are also versed in web design and content management…I love using Wikipedia and have long kept a personal blog, but the idea of companies using Wikis and blogs to communicate with their employees, customers, and potential customers is new and intriguing to me.

I’ve been looking at how ready corporations may be for the use of Wiki in a recent article. The results may surprise you.