Goodbye Summer! Technical Writing Digest
Let’s start the autumn with some new resources to learn!
Knowledge Manager: The Role, Responsibilities, and Hiring Guide
If you’re searching for a new job opportunity but you don’t know where to start and what may be interesting for you, read about a knowledge manager.
A knowledge manager is a person in charge of the company wiki — a constantly growing information base. Information is one of your company assets, just like human resources or production facilities. If information is not managed properly (organized, shared, stored, used, and re-used), it becomes just a silo where useless documents are dumped.
To learn more about the role, responsibilities, salary, read this blog post:
Some advice if you’re just starting out your technical writing career
In addition to the previous post, here are some pieces of advice if you’re just starting out your technical writing career by Tom Johnson.
He recently spoke to some technical writing interns at his work on the topic of career advice. The topic was as follows: What advice would you give to those just starting out their technical writing career? Imagine turning back the clock 20 years. What advice would be most helpful? This post expands on some of these ideas. It also gave him an opportunity to play around with Midjourney, an art AI tool that automatically creates images based on text prompts. (For fun, he included the text prompts as captions.) Unlike his other posts, this post is more visual, as it was originally intended more as a slide deck than a blog post.
Does the current job market seem a bit slow to anyone?
Some tech writers noticed that the technical writing market became a bit slow. What do you think? You can read some opinions here:
Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World by Tim Harford
In Messy, you’ll learn about the unexpected connections between creativity and mess; understand why unexpected changes of plans, unfamiliar people, and unforeseen events can help generate new ideas and opportunities as they make you anxious and angry; and come to appreciate that the human inclination for tidiness — in our personal and professional lives, online, even in children’s play — can mask deep and debilitating fragility that keep us from innovation. The book is an exploration of the real advantages of mess in our lives. As Tim wrote the book, he grappled with the way Martin Luther King’s speechmaking style evolved from careful preparation to impromptu genius. Tim Harford tried to tease out the connections between the brilliant panzer commander Erwin Rommel, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, and the primary campaign of Donald Trump.
More info you can read here:
Now, it’s your turn to share with me your summer favorites in the comments!
