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Subject:RE: Are you innovative? From:mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:52:52 -0500
Steven Brown demanded to know:
> We talk a lot on this list about word choices,
> document contents, help authoring software, etc., but
> let's think big for a few days. I wonder....
>
> What is the most innovative thing you're doing in your
> current job as a technical writer? Are you doing
> something that other writers or companies haven't even
> thought about? Are you breaking new ground or taking
> risks?
Hell no.
Constrained by budget, by other-departmentish control of resources like our
external web site, by lack of a clue as to what would constitute
"innovative", and by generally conservative nature of superiors (assuming I
would come up with something "innovative" in the first place).
For us, it was an innovation to move from PDF and paper to WebHelp --
something that techcomms did years ago.
Someday, we'll "innovate" from exclusively command-line interface to
something GUI, and I'll be playing catch-up with the trailing edge of
tech-comms as I figure out integrated, context-sensitive Help, and try to
train the developers to build in the hooks it needs. But not yet. We aren't
there, yet, and I've got deadlines to meet and miles to go before I sleep.
:-)
Kevin
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