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How would you get a novel, timely and topical idea with U.S. national political overtones into the media and rapidly?

Like you, when I sit down the words that I write are not in the pen before I pick it up. Over a just completed 36-hour blur a 1500 word opinion piece titled "The Ruling Class" emerged from my keyboard. It describes how rules and definitions are central to the U.S. Democratic National Party’s Presidential nominee selection process and raises logic issues about the impact of this on their pending decision. My confidants say that “this clearly breaks new ground in a fresh and thought provoking ...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good direct marketing writer/coach, with specific experience in web DM copy? Looking for someone who is qualified to help train in-house staff on a short-term contract status. Thanks in advance for any help.

I need an autoresponder. Does anyone have any recommendations? Of course I'd like something economical, easy to use and reliable. Thank you!!

I want to market ebooks.

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Does anyone use social networking sites to help coordinate multi-author projects? What do you use? We're considering setting up some sort of a system that can be both a blog and a network - kind of like Ning.com, but on a professional level.

Closed Question: Anyone ever deal with literary agents?

I got a hot book idea, the research is done, the outline is done, it's just they seem to be a fussy lot.

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Job Title:: Documentation Specialist and President of communications company

Company Name:: Wyndham Vacation Ownership (full-time) Write Way Designs, Inc (part-time)

About Me:: Susana Maria Rosende holds a BA in English/Technical Communication with a minor in visual arts from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and has over 18 years experience in written and visual communication, mostly as a technical writer in IT.

She has also taken Web programming and digital design courses at local community colleges, as part of an ongoing challenge in her copious spare time toward earning an A.S. in Programming, one semester, and one class at a time, including Introduction to: Web Programming, ASP.net, C#, XML, Visual Basic.net, and FLASH.

In her 20-year-plan on her road to retirement, her lofty goals include earning both an MBA and a Masters in Creative Writing, as well as growing her part-time company into a full-time venture that will sustain her in her retirement years. It is good, she says, to have goals.

Her eldest son attends Florida State University for Music Composition, and her youngest son started high school with dreams of becoming a software engineer. Her other "children" include a White German Shepherd dog, a Shih Tzu, a Yorkie, two Jack Shitz (Jack Russell/Shih Tzu crossbreeds), a cat, and a parakeet.

Susana is a member of both the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and the IEEE Professional Communications Society (PCS). Recently, she hired on as the Documentation Specialist in the Learning and Development department of Wyndham Vacation Ownership. Prior to that she was the Technical Publications Supervisor of a team of technical writers in the IS division of Attorneys' Title Insurance Fund, where she was employed for almost 11 years.

A first-generation Cuban American, Susana also has English/Spanish technical translation experience at Fiserv, an international banking software company, and has written and translated website content, articles, and technical documentation for several start-up software companies.

Susana is also a visual artist who owns an online t-shirt business. She has also illustrated newsletters and painted murals for various events.

At her part-time communications company, Write Way Designs, Inc. (writewaydesigns.com), Susana offers technical writing, copy writing, ghost writing, editing, proofreading, illustration, cartooning, website authoring and design, photography, and English/Spanish translation...for your communication needs.

Website:: www.writewaydesigns.com

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At 9:51am on May 13th, 2008, Mary Olson said…: I'm impressed and inspired by your profile. Curious about how you've been pursuing the Web programming. Community Colleges in my area (Minneapolis) don't seem to teach the programming part except with on-line, non-credit classes. I'm also interested in getting an MFA in Creative Writing but can't afford it. And we have a common pet interest; I have a terrier-mix, cat, a couple fish, and two horses. Nice meeting you.

At 6:53am on May 13th, 2008, Rajeev Jain said…: Hi Susana, I would like to invite you to join "API SDK Writers, Programming Writers" community. Professionals like you are an asset and we can learn a lot from you. You are also welcome to join yahoo group http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/APIWriters/

-Rajeev

At 3:05am on May 6th, 2008, Harjot Dhodi said…: Thanks Susana! I hope my page will contribute and help other tech writers. Also, its a learning phase for me aswell. I have around four years of exp. and still learn a lot in terms of new tools, processes, and skills. I have'nt got any technical communication certification or degree. All I am learning through is from the industry experience.

regards,

Harjot

At 9:57am on May 5th, 2008, Harjot Dhodi said…: Hi Susana!

Please check this out under following sections of http://harjotdhodi.googlepages.com/technicalwritingcourses

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Regards,

Harjot

At 4:39am on April 22nd, 2008, Robbie Thompson said…: Susana, I've been with www.Army.mil for four years. I'm currently the Program Manager for operations. Please thank both of your brothers for me for their service to our nation. Will keep Alberto in thought and prayer as he begins his deployment to Iraq.

At 8:37am on April 21st, 2008, Mike Gardner said…: Hi Susanna
What sort of aspect of SharePoint are you particularly interested in? Are you thinking about content management and principles from a business perspective, or thinking about the technical aspects of SharePoint. I can talk more to the business side of things, and would not necessarily claim to know the detailed technical side of things.
I think you need to think carefully about SharePoint in a company, as it is one of those tools that can easily proliferate and you can suddenly find you have no control over the content. I believe that there needs to be an imposed architecture to your SharePoint sites such that your enterprise content is clearly defined for specific sites and these are more acrefully managed and controlled. You can then allow other sites, WIP sites, team sites, etc, to be more of a collaboration set of content, which you may not need to control.
So you need to then make sure that those collaboration, etc type sites don't take perference on finding content over the enteprise sites.
Also need to carefully consider whether you want to manage the SharePoint columns consistently. These can provide great benefit if managed across site collections, enabling effective advanced search. However, SharePoint (and Microsoft) do not provide tools to do this (we have implemented our own).

At 4:43pm on April 14th, 2008, Karen said…: Hi Susana,
Thanks for the invitation, and sorry it took me so long to accept. We have a lot in common, including white German Shepherds. I don't have one now, but I did when I was growing up :-) Since then, we've owned three others. The last was with us 15 years.

Cheers,
Karen

At 6:43pm on April 8th, 2008, Karen Bachmann said…: Hi, Susana! Thanks for the invitation to connect. I'll let Coco know you think she's the cutest—but then I've never met a ferret who wasn't. ;-)

Best regards,
Karen

At 1:57am on April 5th, 2008, Peter Grainge said…: Hmm! Must have missed a link. Clicked your invite link and there was no obvious Accept link so I clicked the Invite link thinking that the requests would sort of match. Now you've got an invite to be my friend! What did I miss?

Thanks for the invitation.

At 11:14am on March 31st, 2008, Mike Murray said…: Great to see your smiling face Susana. I'll be out for 2-4 weeks beginning 4/7 for knee surgerey. I wont be active in Content Wrangler until after that.

ALL the best!

Mike

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