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Help: How helpful is it? I read on Usable Help: “According to the 2002 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, about 50% of the US adults studied demonstrate literacy skills at Type 1 or Type 2 levels. This means that respondents are, at best: “[A]pt to experience considerable difficulty in performing tasks that required them to […]

Character Sets: What are they? Unicode and Character Sets: Thanks Joel! (It looks like Joel’s taking up too much space on this blog… hmm?) write to me: Suman@sumankumar.com

Joel on Software – The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing How to weed out the ‘unwashed masses’? How to discover and hire the brilliant superstars? Read on: Joel on Software – The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing

The Best e-Learning Sites Links from e-LearningGuru.com The Best e-Learning Sites Links from e-LearningGuru.com

Blogging and Security Scott Granneman writes on securityfocus.com about how blogs can be a security pro’s best friend. SecurityFocus BASICS Columnists: Blogs: Another Tool in the Security Pro’s Tool

Re: [twin] Course Content for Technical Writing

HiYour hard skills are okay. But you are not specific when you say ‘team skills’ I mean today everyone is expected to be a team player so it is not necessarily a skill you know? I’d rather focus on specific skills like ‘interviewing skills’ and ‘survey skills’: a tech writer spends lot of time interviewing […]

Latin Words Used in The English Language Trust me, you’d feel like an oaf when someone rattles out a Latin phrase like ‘Sine Qua Non’ or ‘Summa Cum Laude’ and it goes over your head. You just grin, not indicating whether you understood the damn phrase or not. That’s definitely not the position I want […]

Importing Word2000 Documents to RoboHelp HTML Article on Robohelp Community Above article in Flash-help format write to me: Suman@sumankumar.com

How to hire a ‘Future-Proof’ Technical Writer I came across quite a few recruitment ads in the papers and job announcements in mailing lists that ask for a technical writer. It is good to see that the demand for my ilk has shot up. What’s appalling though is the emphasis that the companies place on […]