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#1 (API) Using JavaScript libraries like jQuery or Node.js
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#2 Lightweight DITA / DITA future
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#3 Markdown for Techcomm
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#4 Freelancing
Scribe: John Perry
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- Know your audience
- Network with power partners: people who know the people who need your services but don’t do what you do: eg. graphic designers, commercial photographers, are good power partners for writers.
- Cold calling:
- Don’t call tech pubs, call a project manager, product mgr, program manager
- Social engineering: contact sales group and ask for the person in another group (eg project mgt) that you actually want to contact; they’ll transfer your call.
- Social media presence:
- blog, facebook, LinkedIn, twitter, facebook
- professional organizations
- A youtube channel with over 2000 subscribers gets monetized: monthly royalties
- blogging
- Self-publish
- Cafe press; Lulu – can lead to sales of your book on Amazon
- Zazzle: photo, drawings, paintings, books on cafe press
- networking: time intensive not necessarily a lot of return
- avoid networking that targets general population
- network of professional business consultants that target Fortune 50
- Advertising
- Conferences
- horizontal network at technology conferences
- business printers
- LI Profinder: respond quickly; opportunities close after only a few responses are posted
- Mom Project: small projects (2 wks part time) to longer term (3 mo) to full time. Meant for moms returning to workforce but you don’t HAVE to be a Mom.
- Writers Market book:
- 3000-4000 markets for writers; magazines, newspapers, etc.
- Uses $ symbol to rate pay of various employers from one $ to three $$$
- Query letters: how you submit a freelance article to a publication
- typically for one article but one article can lead to long term work
- multiple submissions
- sending more than one query letter a month
- it’s frowned upon but you can do it anyway
- evergreen article: general enough to be republished in different magazines
- Magazines may take two years to respond to your query and 5-6 months to pay you,
- secondary rights: mention that someone else has published your article
- To see if magazine takes freelancers look in the masthead for “contributing editor”
- Contract tech writing
- last April new law in CA has made 1099 harder to get
- linksv – venture funded startups:
- where to find potential cold-call candidates
- these companies are not going to be on indeed or glassdoor
- If you post your resume on sites like linked in, glassdoor, monster, dice, you will get spammed a LOT
- Most Bay Area TW jobs prefer onsite W2 but if you have expertise they need you may have some leverage
#5 Ways to simplify complexity
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#6 Amphitheater
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