Wikipedia talk:Wikipedians/Technical Communicators

Leads into the profession

I've begun to ask the people on this list what they do for a living and how they'd define "technical communicator." I'd love to have a full-time job editing sites like Wikipedia. Does anyone know of any avenues that would make this a possibility for me? Others have already mentioned looking into my local STC group as well as offering to guest-blog and get my name out by contacting websites that I admire. I'd love to get my Scripture Database idea on the ground someday; megsnjj.com is my most recent site. Any other recommendations would be very much appreciated! Feel free to e-mail me if you have more personal recommendations.

I'm watching this page, so you can reply here. Thanks! --J. J. 14:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Technical Communications Professions

I'm Konrad Roeder, a systems engineer at T-Mobile and an author of technical books. To me in order to be an effective engineer, you really have to be a good technical communicator. About half of my career depends on reading and writing technical documents. My audience of my engineering work is my engineering department, the marketing department, the operations department, equipment vendors, contractors, airport officials, city and county officials, railroad and subway officials. As an author of technical books and Wikipedia, I have a much broader audience.

There are many jobs that entail technical writing. Here are a few ideas: 1) Technical Writer 2) Technical News Service 3) Technical Book Author 4) .. My favorite .. Engineer

Kgrr 18:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Thomprod

I am the Senior Editor, Avid Administrator and a Technical Director at a broadcast television station located in Michigan, USA. I also train producers on editing techniques and work as a liason between the Creative Services and Engineering departments. I graduated from Oakland University with a B. A. in Communication Arts, so I enjoy writing manuals and standard operating procedures. I am willing to edit and add to existing articles to better explain technical details to laypersons.Thomprod 16:22, 13 July 2007 (UTC)