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RE: Eric Sedor has a piece on tech writing for the cloud
Subject:RE: Eric Sedor has a piece on tech writing for the cloud From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:36:10 -0400
Unless I'm mistaken, I think the question was directed more toward the notion of working as a technical writer, using cloud-based authoring tools, and keeping your source files in the cloud, and possibly collaborating with other writers, editors, and reviewers, by that means.
Let's offer a hypothetical case, and leave to your imagination exactly which list member(s) it might apply to.
Say somebody was a developer and vendor of equipment that governments and big companies (like Google and AWS) use to secure their cloud-ish offerings. The supplier of the equipment and tools trusts that equipment and those tools.
The individual cloud-providing customer trusts those tools and also trusts their own tools and practices that would use the first party's security stuff. But... the other big customers - like governments, or like big companies competing in the same cloud-provider space - would prefer that the security-equipment vendor NOT put all their development, communication, storage, and other eggs in the cloud-basket of a competitor or of a company they don't control fairly closely.
So, that unnamed developer and vendor of equipment would be a big part of the security infrastructure of various cloud-ish offerings, but could not, themselves "eat their own dogfood" by entrusting to any given big customer. Their other big customers simply wouldn't stand for it.
By strange coincidence, I do all my writing and collaborating and passing-around-for-review inside our corporate boundaries, and nothing is stored or shared in any public cloud, and no cloud-based tools are used.
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From: Robert Lauriston
Sent: March-13-14 1:54 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Eric Sedor has a piece on tech writing for the cloud
I've been documenting SaaS apps since 2000. It's pretty much identical to documenting installed client-server applications with web clients.
The main difference is if it's SaaS only any installation and admin docs are for internal distribution only.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
>http://www.shoap.com/technical-writing-for-the-cloud/
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> Is anyone here already working in the cloud?
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> Cordially,
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> Craig Cardimon | Technical Writer
> Marketing Systems Group
> www.m-s-g.com<http://www.m-s-g.com/>
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