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		<title>London Tech Writers Social, February 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first London Tech Writers Social of 2010 takes place on 25th February 2010. Here are the details:
Date: 25th February 2010
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Garrick Arms, 8 – 10 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0HG
The Garrick Arms pub is 2 minutes walk from Leicester Square station (Northern and Piccadilly lines) and less than 10 minutes walk from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little more advice for job seekers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of finding work as a technical writer came up on a mailing list I subscribe to recently, and I want to share some advice here. I have been a job seeker in this market many times, and I was also involved in recruitment for a while some years ago, so I have literally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch that space! (more from TCUK09)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Kath Straub gave her presentation on Reading beyond the words: How text formatting can enhance the readability and persuasiveness of text at the Technical Communications UK 2009 (TCUK09) Conference she created an unexpected storm. That&#8217;s probably because what Kath was saying about a very specific meaning of &#8220;text formatting&#8221; seemed to be contradicting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>User Documentation Survey 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just launched my latest user documentation survey &#8211; click here to take part. 
Please do take part (it will only take you five minutes), and please pass this invitation on to anyone who might be interested. I&#8217;d like to get feedback from people who use the user documentation that comes with gadgets and software, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best place for a tech writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent most of my tech writing career working with product development teams in software and other hi-tech industries. It is what I enjoy doing. It&#8217;s what I do best. And I have come to the conclusion that it&#8217;s not the best place to be.
That conclusion may surprise other tech writers, and it did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bit of a grumble</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s happened to me so many times, I should be used to it by now, but I&#8217;m not. I meet people who are involved in product development, and when I try to talk to them about user documentation I get brushed-off with &#8220;It&#8217;s OK, we do all our user documentation in-house.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s great,&#8221; I say, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Declining writing standards?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone on LinkedIn Answers asked the question &#8220;Has writing gone the way of the Dodo?&#8221; and wrote that he didn&#8217;t mean that writing was extinct, just that standards of business writing appear to have declined. He provoked a lot of responses from writers, and his question certainly hit a nerve with me, so here&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Usability from the trenches</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2007/08/usability-from-the-trenches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Liberman is a linguist and mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also has some responsibilities for student accommodation.He has written a wonderful article about an example of poor usability for a new computer application which was supposed to let students report facilities problems &#8211; leaky pipes, blocked drains, or burnt-out light-bulbs &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technical Writing blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2007/08/technical-writing-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just added the details of this blog to Tom Johnson&#8217;s Tech Writer Blog Directory. 
There are a number of bloggers listed there who I know personally from various conferences and activities (mainly STC-related), including Mark Levinson, Rhonda Bracey, and Sarah O&#8217;Keefe, and other names I recognise as being &#8220;the usual suspects&#8221; (that is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tool Bar and Grill</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2007/08/the-tool-bar-and-grill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I became a technical writer back in the mid 1990s I have been impressed by the friendly and helpful attitude of almost every single person I&#8217;ve met in this profession. I have always benefited from the experiences of my colleagues, and I hope I now do my bit to help other professionals by [...]]]></description>
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