Technical Writers Group (STC): An Informal Discussion of Any Tech Comm Challenges You’re Facing October 23, 2008

This is a meeting for technical writers to share challenges they're facing in the industry and find advice from other professionals. It's sponsored by the Intermountain Society for Technical Communication.

Here are a few of the possible challenges we may discuss:

* Editing Subject-Matter-Expert-written articles (for publications such as corporate websites or newsletters) without upsetting the SME with required changes.

* Convincing developers and designers of the value of help, without having to make the case over and over.

* Assessing whether Web 2.0 strategies and other new technologies (such as wikis) are right for you.

* Staying employed in this time of economic turmoil.

* Finding ways to expand your team’s headcount and market your deliverables to departments who generally overlook you.

* Accommodating new documentation requirements mid-way through the project (usually newly thought deliverables such as quick reference material that weren’t in the initial plan) while still keeping within your estimated project hours.

* Getting everything done, especially trying new ideas and experiments, despite increasing burdens of documentation, editorial, and management needs.

* Dealing with the sense of marginalization and second-class citizenry that often accompanies the tech writer’s role.

Meet on the second floor, conference room 2

Full Details here at Tom Johnson's I'd Rather Be Writing blog

Official Website: http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2008/10/23/1023-intermountain-stc-meeting-an-informal-discussion-any-tech-comm-challenges-youre-facing/