[TCP] the traveling technical writer

2007-01-25 Thread Lisa M. Bronson (TCP)
Hello everyone, Tomorrow, I send my manager on his way with an updated copy of the I3D presentation I made for the sales manager a couple of weeks ago, which he will show at our company's service conference in Georgia next week. I would have liked to make the presentation myself, but the budget

Re: [TCP] the traveling technical writer

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas Johnson
will be interesting, but not as much fun. Tom Johnson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa M. Bronson (TCP) Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:54 AM To: TCP List Subject: [TCP] the traveling technical writer Hello everyone, Tomorrow, I send my

Re: [TCP] the traveling technical writer

2007-01-25 Thread Harkness, Holly
The only travel I've done (in 7 years at this job) was to yearly STC conferences or out-of-town training. Several years ago our team offered a writing class to employees. It was so popular that we flew two of my writers out to California to deliver the class to employees in the Bay Area. They

Re: [TCP] the traveling technical writer

2007-01-25 Thread Charles Beck
Hi all, I have not done much travel in my current job, though last summer our whole doc team took a field trip to one of our clients-a state penitentiary!-to see how they're using our software. However, in my previous job, and even during my three-year stint as an indie, I got to do some

Re: [TCP] the traveling technical writer

2007-01-25 Thread John Garison
Over the years I've actually gotten the opportunity to travel a fair bit. I've done site visits to places that used our products like Lawrence Livermore Labs where they were using our real-time operating system to control attempts at nuclear fusion as well as a paper manufacturer that was

Re: [TCP] the traveling technical writer

2007-01-25 Thread Jones, Donna
Do you get to travel as a technical writer? For what purposes do you travel? Do you wish you could travel more? Or less? Up until now, none of my jobs as a tech writer have required travel, and none of them involved customer contact for tech writers. As Carla mentioned earlier, we may get to