1. Blog Site
(Portfolio/Personal Web Sites)

The author and owner seeks to describe the overlapping worlds in whih we live. That is, the spiritual world and the physical, or temporal world. To the author, these include family, friends, commitments, ...

2. Publish & Promote a Book
(Portfolio/Commercial Web Sites)

... explains each step along the way simply and clearly so readers can fully understand. Glidewell publishes blog articles on his Web site that delve further into evolution, science, and religion by addressing ...

3. Hey! Where’s the Editor?
(Blog/Archive)

So, why did the New York Times need editors? Cosider the article highlighted in the image below, for example. Obviously, Star City has changed over the years—accommodations for staff, and especially for ...

4. What Do You Want?
(Blog/Archive)

Do you need a technical writer? A person who will work hard, produce outstanding results, and who has little need for compensation? You’re a business manager; you read the ads for professionals and you ...

5. Document Architecture—What Is It?
(Blog/Archive)

Consider what documents your company or professional practice produces, and for whom. Do you know: What information you publish? How do you publish it? The Designer's tools... For ...

6. Anyone Can Write...Right?
(Blog/Archive)

Good writing conveys a message as it is intended to be understood. I worked with cryptology in the Navy. We had to recognize activities and analyze their significance, and—and this is a critical “and”—report ...

7. Let's Talk about Design
(Blog/Archive)

Hardware and software engineers are designers by nature and training. They design the infrastructure of the product and build the mechanics that allow it to function. The product, or widget, they produce ...

8. Looking for Something?
(Blog/Archive)

Despite popular mythology, Benjamin Franklin never proposed the wild turkey as our country’s national symbol. He did, however, observe the turkey’s admirable qualities and contrast them positively against ...

9. Does Your Documentation Resemble a...
(Blog/Archive)

Is your documentation project about to cook your goose? The analogy of a documentation project with a stuffed bird is not the turkey it appears to be. Good documentation is stuffed with the proper information ...

10. Who Are You Looking For?
(Blog/Archive)

Technical communicators—writers, editors, designers, Web developers—are involved with information design, usability, quality assurance, marketing, editing, online Help authoring, instructional design, ...

11. We’re Not Robots
(Blog/Archive)

Professional technical communicators are not automatons. Neither their profession nor their professional associations are monolithic in nature. Just as engineering embraces a wide variety of specialization, ...

12. Lost in the Crowd?
(Blog/Archive)

It’s a tough business world out there. Even with the spate of mergers, takeovers, and downsizing that’s happened, there’s plenty of competition. In fact, it seems that the competition grows fiercer where ...

13. Your Documentation Program
(Blog/Archive)

All too often, I’ve been provided a document that someone wrote some time ago and have been told to, essentially, copy the format in that document for the one I’m to create. This gets even more interesting ...

14. Looking Into the Web
(Blog/Archive)

What does anyone mean when he says something about “the Web?” Well, people use the term loosely to mean the Internet, the World-Wide Web, or a local intranet and the information that can be obtained from ...

15. Death by Meetings
(Blog/Archive)

... If any effort is expended at all. Reid Hastie recently blogged this gem in the New York Times online: Time is the most perishable good in the world, and it is not replenishable. You can’t earn ...

16. Death by PowerPoint
(Blog/Archive)

Perhaps it’s pointless to point out that many of us have suffered Death By PowerPoint many times over. Sometimes as presenters of information; sometimes as participants. This condition has become, sadly, ...

17. English: Plain, Simple
(Blog/Archive)

England and America are two countries divided by a common language. These words are attributed primarily to the playwright, George Bernard Shaw, although some claim that Oscar Wilde spoke them, ...

18. Invoicing You
(Business Case/For James River Technical Communications)

... Fixed-fee works best on longer term projects that are more complex; time & expenses, or hourly billing, works best when you have a document, blog, or brochure (for example) that you want us to edit ...

19. Business Presentations
(About Us/Our Services)

... the attempt to kill their audience through the overuse of its bells and whistles. (I blogged about this; see Death by PowerPoint.) James River Technical Communications can create a PowerPoint document ...

20. Welcome
(About Us/Welcome)

... documentation that reduces your customer service overhead! Our portfolios, blogs, and articles show that James River Technical Communications is the provider to chose! James River Technical Communications ...