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Ted Rainey

Technical Writer

Certification for Technical Communicators – do we really need it?

By tjrainey | Published: May 17, 2010
Some of those in the Tech Comm profession may feel (and rightly so) that we spend a lot of time attempting to legitimize our existence – whether it be to our current employer, as a required member of a development team, or generally feeling the need to prove the value we provide. There’s often a [...]
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MadCap Flare on Mac OS X (virtually)

By tjrainey | Published: January 28, 2010
I use MadCap Flare, an XML-based help authoring tool, regularly in my work as a Technical Writer. Until recently, I was a Windows user, so running Flare (a Windows-only application) was never a problem. Not too long ago though, I switched over to Mac for various reasons (none that are worth exploring here – that [...]
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