Hi, folks: "Lisa Gielczyk (TCP ADMIN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everybody, > > Traffic to the TCP website and membership on the list have increased > dramatically in the last week or so. Could you let me know where you > heard > about TCP? You're welcome to post your answer to the list, or you can > write > to me offlist. If you post to the list, why don't you also let us know > what > you do in your tech comm career? > > About a week ago, in response to a long-running thread on a FrameMaker list that seemed less about FM, more about technical-writing and documentation-department issues, I posted this note: I've been deleting messages on this thread for some time because it's not relevant to me. However, you all might find a more engaging community at techcommpros, the new tech writers listserv, that branched off techwr-l some time ago. Here's the contact: followed by a contact to this techcommpros.com list. Honk if you joined this list because of that post. I'm now back in Minneapolis, an independent Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in FrameMaker, Acrobat, and InDesign trainer. I entered the world of computers when I was a commercial photographer and got an Osborne 1 (huh?) to "help me run my business and free me for the creative photography stuff." Right! The usual "I got hooked" experience led to my teaching introductory application classes in the Osborne user group, which led to becoming the first instructor and course developer for the Science Museum of Minnesota's new business-computer applications classes. I developed classes and taught them, for all the hot stuff - WordStar, VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, dBASE II, and stuff like that. That led to an invitation to join the Ashton-Tate (who?) dBASE II tech-support team in California, and then take on dBASE III, FrameWork (*NOT* FrameMaker), dBASE Mac, and FullWrite Professional. (What are these names?) I also did testing on the Apple Newton (the Apple what?) If you take a certain slant on this history, you might think, "Hmmm, he gave the kiss of death to every major and minor application, and company he touched." DON'T take that slant<G>! It wasn't MY fault. That led to becoming a technical writer, and a brief exposure to an early release of FrameMaker on Macintosh. I found that training and support were really my strongest interests and my best match, so I returned to training and became a FrameMaker trainer. Since1994, I've been doing mostly FrameMaker training, adding Acrobat, WebWorks Publisher, and InDesign to my repertoire, as they came along. I worked for a great company, in Mountain View, California - Highland Digital, which begat Highland Software, which begat HighSoft, Inc., which begat KnowHow ProServices. Our students and customers were mostly technical writers at companies like National Semiconductor, Intel, Bay Networks, NorTel, JDS Uniphase, LSI Logic, PriceCoopersWaterhouse, Apple, Sybase, Network Appliance, Cisco Systems, Cadence, Oracle, and others. In 2002, I became independent, and with the company's blessing, got to take the KnowHow ProServices name. Currently, I'm writing a book for FrameMaker users who are moving to InDesign, or thinking about it, which is equally valuable for InDesign Users who are moving to FrameMaker, or users who want to be bi-applicationists. Regards, Peter _______________________________ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ Author Help files and create printed documentation with Doc-To-Help. New release adds Team Authoring Support, enhanced Web-based help technology and PDF output. Learn more at www.doctohelp.com/tcp. Interactive 3D Documentation Parts catalogs, animated instructions, and more. www.i3deverywhere.com _______________________________________________ Technical Communication Professionals Post a message to the list: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, unsubscribe, archives, account options, list info: http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com Subscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need help? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the TCP whole experience! http://www.techcommpros.com
