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Oct 09

Books for Technical Communicators

STC’s Intercom magazine for September/October 2009 includes a featured article available to all. We often find technical writers or aspirants looking for resources that would equip them to learn and build skills. The following article has a good list of useful books.

Foundation Books: A Lone Writer’s Annotated List
By: David Kowalsky, Senior Member
Kowalsky provides a compilation of suggested foundation books for technical communicators. He includes books on style, management, editing, design and presentation, writing for the web, and DITA and HTML.

I wonder if we could lay our hands on these books. If not, it would be a good idea to recommend them to the libraries at work or closer home.

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Apr 09

Recommended: kARNATRiix Album

We love good music any time. Like the famous saying in The Alchemist, good music seems to follow us anywhere we go. My brother Raghu was once in the Landmark shop in Bangalore’s Forum mall. There was this music playing, and it didn’t take more than a couple of seconds for him to decide to buy the album. He asked the shopkeepers, and they didn’t know which was the album. Raghu grew desperate, he rushed to the next floor – if the music stopped, he may never know the name of the album.

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3
Apr 09

Take care of your comfort, productivity and well-being

While we toil away in front of the computers day in and day out, we take for granted and ignore the most valuable resource we possess – our safety and well being.

Take a moment to review the ergonomic guide at http://www.hp.com/ergo/.

What we do today has an impact in the years to come, and not just on ourselves.

Take care!

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17
Jul 08

Recommended: Jack Welch's Winning

This is the recent book I read and I’m cursing myself why I didn’t read it 3 years back. It was on my to-do list for that long, when it was published, and somehow I missed it.

Why am I cursing myself? Because it would’ve saved me about 3 years of common, avoidable mistakes at my job and life in general. It’s that simple. That’s why, this is coming with a ‘recommended’ tag.

Jack Welch, GE’s legendary former CEO of about 20 years, first wrote the book ‘Straight from the Guts’. This was about his life, how he started and ended his career at GE. The second one, ‘Winning’ is more universal and influential. I’m not going to say what’s in the book, but I will certainly tell you where it benefits you career-wise – which you may apply in your personal life as well.

You’ll get an idea how to identify and get the job you love, how to get promotions, how to deal with issues at office, work-life balance, how to beat competition – and so on.

Enjoy and Start Winning!

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