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Visit WritersUA and get the latest news on user assistance. Among the topics:

  • Skills and Technologies Survey results now available
  • Salary Survey in progress
  • Tools Survey in progress (restarted due to glitch…if you’ve already taken it, go take it again!)
  • Free Apple Help tutorial by Matt Neuberg now available
  • User Assistance Group started on LinkedIn

In addition, get $100 discount of the full conference price for the 2009 WritersUA Conference if you register by 9 February 2009.

Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf Ltd has started the “I’m a Tech Writer” project. From the website: “Technical Writers (aka Technical Authors, Content Wranglers and Documentation Managers) have an unfair image. This project aims to challenge this image, by showing technical writers in a different light. The photos below are of technical communications professionals, doing a variety of activities.”

Over 40 pictures have been uploaded so far. (Great shots, too!) As a general rules, technical communicators are considered introverts, but as these pictures show, we have lots of interests. And we really like to travel!

Visit the I’m a Tech Writer project and submit your picture today!

If you use Twitter, follow @helpstuff, which has been set up as a broadcast account. (That is, it only sends posts relevant to Gridlines, helpstuff, and HAT-Matrix.)

If you don’t use Twitter but don’t want to miss out, go to the helpstuff Twitter page. Or you can add the RSS feed from that page to your RSS reader.

If you have any news related to Help authoring, online documentation, new tool features, and so on, feel free to send an email to Gridlines News.

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