Supporting Multiple Scrum Teams as a Single Technical Writer in an Agile Environment
Last Thursday’s Clear Point coffee was hosted by Courion Corporation in Westboro. Lynne Swenson, Technical Publishing Manager and solo technical writer gave a presentation based on her experience as the only writer supporting all Courion development teams. Wikipedia defines agile software development as a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, … Continue reading
Technical Writers Webinar: Structured Documentation Primer July 20th
I have received a number of inquiries as to where to take a class on structured authoring.Neil Perlin, one of our local thought leaders and trainers in the industry has agreed to offer a half day Webinar to address this need.Neil has been providing online documentation training and consulting services for 15 years, is a … Continue reading
Documentation and UX: Partnering for Success
Attendees at our Clear Point Coffee on June 10 viewed a compelling slide show on the new direction for documentation managers. Doug Gibson, Senior Manager of the User Interface Design team at Symantec, had both good news and bad news to report, but our audience was already well aware of the biggest challenge – … Continue reading
Multiple contract elearning jobs open now!
Contract elearning jobs open now! We have a client that has priority deliverables within the next 1 to 6 months. Work is mostly on site in Boston. Rate will depend on experience and specific job. Feel free to pass this on. Contact: Marlene Favaloro Marlene@clearpnt.com Contract 1: Instructional Designer/Course Developer needed for large high tech … Continue reading
Virtual Collaborative Writing in the Workplace
On Tuesday May 18, Clear Point invited Charlotte Robidoux, content strategy manager for the HP Enterprise Storage, Servers, and Network documentation group, and Judy Kessler, senior staff technical writer for Sybase, to discuss this timely topic. Charlotte is the editor and Judy one of the contributing authors of the forthcoming book Virtual Collaborative Writing … Continue reading
UX and Documentation news and events
The date has changed for our June Coffee with Doug Gibson: User Experience and Documentation – Strategic Partnerships for Success to Thursday June 10th. Please make a note of it! Don’t forget the UPA mini conference on June 9th. Clear Point is proud to be a sponsor of this event. Learn more about the conference and … Continue reading
Web Strategies for Health Communication
There is still time to enroll in Lisa Gualtieri’s terrific summer course Web Strategies for Health Communication. Use discount code clearpoint for $100 off. Enroll in the Tufts Summer Institute on Web Strategies for Health Communication to learn how healthcare and public health organizations develop and implement Web strategies to drive the success of … Continue reading
Clear Point Coffee for June: User Experience and Documentation-Strategic Partners for Success
We are very pleased to be hosting Doug Gibson, Senior Manager of the UI Design team at Symantec for our Coffee on Thursday June 10th. We’ll be back in Cambridge at Endeca. We’ve changed the format to allow time for networking after the presentation. User Experience and Documentation – Strategic Partnerships for Success Speaker: Doug Gibson, Senior … Continue reading
Clear Point Coffee: Virtual Collaborative Writing in the Workplace
Meet contributing author Judy Kessler and editor Charlotte Robidoux discuss some of the ideas in their newly published book: Virtual Collaborative Writing in the Workplace: Computer-Mediated Communication Technologies and Processes Does this refrain sound familiar: “I was more efficient before single sourcing and XML”? Do your writers complain that working on their own is the … Continue reading
Positive jobs report: Contract Technical Writing Jobs in New England
We finally have some good job news on several fronts indicating job growth for technical writers. The New York Times reported today that 162,000 jobs were added last month, the largest private sector job growth being in health care and temporary services. Temporary help services added 40,000 jobs last month. In addition I can tell you antecdotally … Continue reading