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RE: What's the most fun/creative project you've ever worked on in your career?
Subject:RE: What's the most fun/creative project you've ever worked on in your career? From:"Janoff, Steven" <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- ga -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> Date:Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:58:20 -0800
Hey Tony, those are awesome! The home fire safety one is really slick. :)
Thanks for sharing. (Did you submit these to STC competition?)
Steve
From: Tony Chung [mailto:tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:32 PM
To: Keith Hood
Cc: Janoff, Steven; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: What's the most fun/creative project you've ever worked on in your career?
I haven't done core technical writing. Ever. Although I've written loads of how-tos, wiki pages, manuals, and illustrations, I've never written a help file, and have never spent more than a few months in FrameMaker.
The most fun I've had, I'm still having. I support a CMS at the City of Vancouver, and have had the pleasure of writing content and coding front-end interfaces for numerous sections. This past week I was in training to better support the backend and implement improvements directly into the CMS.
Some examples of front-end stuff:
- Home safety tips from the fire department: http://bit.ly/covfiresafety
- Organizational chart: http://bit.ly/covorgchart
- Sample map of development master plan: http://bit.ly/covhpplan
Yeah, tooting my own horn here--Again. And most of you might have seen this before. The source code is easy to find, being on a public website and all. What's important is to get the initial idea to work into the project. And having the opportunity to exercise these ideas was a great opportunity for me.
Cheers,
-Tony
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