Hi John, I haven't done much freelance in the last few years, but my rates have still gone up :) It all comes down to how much you depend on those revenues or...
Double-Header Event from STC-Montreal "STC-Montreal Town Hall" & "Our Friends, the Programmers" Two events for the price of one! ==============================...
I had planned to raise my rates, but my main client made it clear that they were tightening their belt, so I wimped out and kept them stable. For smaller,...
This link might be a useful bookmark in case a client tries these tricks on you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY Tip o' the hat to Erika Buky on...
Thank you, Geoff. I have not laughed this hard in a long time, possibly years. :-D Next time we meet up, the drinks are on me. (Damn, I know you'll remember ...
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STC-Montreal Spring Banquet 2009 Come join us at Café Saigon for delicious Vietnamese dishes. Eat, drink, and network. Café Saigon makes some of the best...
Hi, I'm a technical writer from India. I've a very unusual requirement by one of my clients for some kind of authoring tool that can automate the documentation...
Manoj Singh Rawat wondered: <<I've a very unusual requirement by one of my clients for some kind of authoring tool that can automate the documentation process...
I recently signed up a one year contract that perfectly suits my needs and decided not to raise my rate to facilitate the negociation with that client,...
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Greetings! I'm noticing that many contracts and jobs in the technical documentation field require an understanding of programming code. This has always been a...
Dave Hickey wondered: <<I'm noticing that many contracts and jobs in the technical documentation field require an understanding of programming code. This has...
JD, I used the "Teach Yourself" series for C and C+ and found it really useful. It won't teach you to be a developer, but at least it'll help you decipher code...
Hi all, Dave Hickey asked: <<I'm noticing that many contracts and jobs in the technical documentation field require an understanding of programming code. This...
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This announcement is also posted online: http://www.sfbayptcuser.org/blog/ Please join us online for our next online meeting: *“Information Quality Lifecycle...
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Start the STC season on the right note. Join your colleagues and friends for a cold drink and cool jazz at Le Cabaret. Do you want to meet other technical...
I thought that this might be of interest as it's DITA focused and there's been a lot of interest online, on many of the DITA mailing lists, and elsewhere about...
STC Annual Wine & Cheese Schmooze! At Le Cabaret Monday is the day! Start the STC season on the right note. Join your colleagues and friends for a cold drink...
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Please join us online for our next meeting: *"Content is King"* *Presented by Rajal Shah, Juniper Networks* *Date*: Saturday, 24 October 2009, 9:00-10:30 AM...
Mediaville Montreal Where freelancers go to town! Attention writers, editors, publishers, translators, and anyone interested in pursuing a career as an...
Eight-Step Editing: A One-Day Workshop With Jim Taylor Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned editor, a would-be writer, or a business manager supervising...
I'm trying to produce French Help using DITA, and it's working pretty well, except that strange characters are appearing for accented characters and...
... This sounds like a problem with the character encoding, it usually happens when a Unicode text is being interpreted as Windows Latin-1 or some other...
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