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How we should certify technical communicators

by techcommdood on July 19, 2010

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The whole certification discussion right now has me thinking…

Some of the arguments against it (and folks, it’s in concept flesh-out mode; give it time to grow some meat on its bones before you pick it clean) seem as logical as the process of determining whether someone is a witch.

Sorry for the aside. I couldn’t resist. ;-)

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I bit the wax tadpole

June 29, 2010 Humor

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Language is an amazing and beautiful yet dangerous thing, especially when crossing its barriers. Just as Coca-Cola learned about it’s Mandarin transliteration, I too recently discovered an interesting twist to my long-standing personal brand ‘techcommdood’. One of my LinkedIn connections wrote me with the following:
I can see the dude/dood [...]

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Silly error of the week

February 26, 2010 Humor

I ran into this error just now and laughed out loud. I’ll let you study it and then learn how I ran into it.

Are you ready for this? I pressed the left cursor button on my keyboard when at the insertion point of a table.
Rather than going up to the previous line like other authoring [...]

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The Freelance Writer Anthem

February 16, 2009 Humor

My friend George forwarded this one on. I have to say, it’s both funny and sadly realistic. Setting out on this freelance experience myself, if I can promise anything, I won’t be working in the buff.

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