Resources

Following are some resources that you might find of value when considering a professional communications specialist.

Assessing Your Documentation Issues and Solutions

• Business Problems Caused by Poor Communication
• Content Management System Survey
• Documentation Challenges and How to Overcome Them
• Don’t Think You’re Spending Much on Documentation? Think Again.
• E-Mail and the Decline of Business Communications
• Meeting Your Organization’s Information and Communication Challenges
• Writing Policies and Procedures that Reduce Corporate Exposure and Increase Employee Productivity
• Essential Technical writing skills for the near future
• Secrets for Making Silicon Valley Professional Opportunities Work for You on the Central Coast

Estimating Documentation Costs

• A Guide to Estimating Writing Projects
• Putting a Cost to Unstructured Information
• The Bottom-Line: Calculating Savings from the Information Mapping Method
• Freelance Rate Chart
• What Technical Writers are Paid in the United States (2006)
• WinWritersUA Salary Survey (2007)

Hiring Technical Writers (including Contractors)

• Choosing and using a technical writer
• Considerations for Hiring Technical Writers
• Hiring a Technical Writer
• Hiring a Technical Writer
• Hiring Contract Technical Writers
• How Technical Writers Add Value to Your Team
• How to Justify Hiring Technical Writers During Hard Economic Times
• Potential Position Descriptions for Information Engineering Professionals
• Reasons for hiring a technical writer
• Six Reasons You Don't Need A Technical Writer (And Why They're Dead Wrong!)
• Strategies when hiring a technical writer
• Tips For Outsourcing Your Technical Documentation
• Why do I need a technical writer?

Managing Documentation Projects

• What makes great product documentation?
• Project Management for Technical Documentation: 10 Tips for Success
• Proving Worth: What Technical Communication Managers Must Do to Prove the Value of Their Deliverables
• Training Technical Communicators for Management

About Offshoring

• Outsourcing documentation development: Assessing the offshore option
• How Offshore Outsourcing Failed Us
• Business 2.0 article: The Real Risk in Indian Offshoring
• Offshoring of Technical Writing

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