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Engineers, Technical Articles and Marketing

05/25/2005 1:00 PM

Engineers are swamped. They need to meet deadlines, answer to bosses, and satisfy cutomers. Some enjoy writing. Others do not. Many simply do not have the time.

About a year ago, an article called "Engineers as Credible Marketers" appeared on-line in IEEE's Today's Engineer. In it, author Richard Burnham argued that technical articles written by technical experts are powerful marketing assets.

A year later, what's the view like from where you work? Do you write technical articles, work with what Burhham calls "ghost writers", or leave marketing to the marketing department?

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The Feature Creep

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05/25/2005 3:21 PM

This is the extent of my "technical" writing other than the help files I write as part of my domain at Globalspec. I write them for technical accuracy and completeness and then the editing staff goes through and worries about stuff like my mixing of the active and passive voice.

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