RE: Technical writers and multimedia?

[kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com]

David asks:
>But how much are technical writers involved in producing 
>multimedia-based user documents? I don't see many signs of it 
>in job ads.

You may not see it in job ads where the specific job title is "technical
writer." But it's a legitimate and logical offshoot of the same skillset.
Multimedia is used extensively in creating training materials
(*somebody's* gotta write this stuff), and I frequently see positions for
Curriculum Developers, Training Authors, etc. where that skillset is a
plus, if not a flat-out requirement.

There's more to tech writing than creating a manual in a word-processor or
DTP tool and porting chunks of it into Help files.

Those whose skills go beyond that will find MANY more job prospects.


Keith Cronin
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