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1.	Bookmarks: 0	More Simplified NRI Banking! Opening up an NRI account is no big deal. If you choose the online route, you will soon realize how simple the whole process is. If you are a non resident Indian, you can open up your bank account sans any lengthy documentation. You are allowed to open multiple accounts in a single application. It takes the tension away from you, as you and your spouse can apply for it simultaneously.
2.	Bookmarks: 0	The Effects of Steroid Use One of the more interesting findings of the highly publicized testosterone-builds-muscle study recently published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine is the lack of mental aggression seen among the participants of the study. This seemingly contradicts previous extensive medical documentation concerning the negative effects of anabolic steroids on psychological status, popularly known as ‘roid rage.........
3.	Bookmarks: 23	Why Have ID Cards in Youth Sports Through an online tracking system and photo id cards for coaches and players a process can be created requiring documentation to only be checked once. In many cases, organizations are required to check the players eligibility several times during the year.
4.	Bookmarks: 1	A Cooling Real Estate Market and Investing in Pre-foreclosures Many lenders have turned to mortgage products designed to lower monthly loan payments and to help borrowers qualify more readily for larger loan amounts, while others require little in the way of documentation during the approval process. These loans do make it easier for some people to get mortgages, but they also can raise the possibility that some borrowers may end up in foreclosure. For the real estate investor or home buyer these market conditions represent a window of opportunity.
5.	Bookmarks: 0	New Technical Writer: Use The Persona To Create The Most Useful Section Of Your User Document OVERVIEWA good User Document includes sections on how to set up, use, and care for the product. However, to create a great User Document , the technical writer should use the Persona, generated in the analysis of the User/Reader, to create the topics for the most useful section of the User Document. This article describes this procedure.THE MOST USEFUL SECTION OF A USER DOCUMENTThe most useful section of a User Document is the one that helps the User get what he...
6.	Bookmarks: 5	How Poor In-house User Documents Cost You Twice & What To Do About It OVERVIEWMany organizations produce in-house tools or modify commercially-available tools for their own use. These tools should get documented so they are of use to others in the organization.If this documentation is not created or is poorly written, it costs you twice:* The first cost (attributed to any poor user document) is the cost of answering the Users' questions (technical support).* The second cost, arises from the lost time of your employees trying to...
7.	Bookmarks: 0	What Is Freelance Technical Writing? Technical writing requires the ability to write clearly, plainly, and accurately about extremely complicated material. If you can do that—and quickly—then becoming a successful technical writer is well within your grasp.The most common clients for freelance technical writers are educational firms, training companies and manufacturing/electronics/software companies. All of these demand a high volume of documentation-style writing, and thus a high volume of technical writ...
8.	Bookmarks: 0	Great Technical Writing: The User-Product Life Cycle - A Documentation Tool The User-Product Life Cycle (U-PLC) is a powerful tool for the User Document writer. Use the U-PLC to generate the high-level topics for your User Document.THE USER-PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE (U-PLC)Usually, when we think of a Product Life Cycle, we think in terms of the development and production of the Product itself. When writing User Documentation, consider the U-PLC to help you generate all the topics necessary for a complete document. User Documentation should support y...
9.	Bookmarks: 5	Great Technical Writing: Tell Your Users What To Expect OVERVIEWIn your User Documentation, you direct your Reader to perform tasks with your product. If you don't tell your Reader what to expect when performing those tasks, you will have a baffled Reader, resulting in dissatisfaction and expensive calls to technical support.EXAMPLE: REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER FILTERI bought and installed a Reverse Osmosis water filter. The instructions told me to fill, and then empty (the instructions foolishly used the term "dump," which ...
10.	Bookmarks: 4	Great Technical Writing: Sell Your Readers On What's Important OverviewOur humdrum, sterile headings and writing manner do little to encourage our Users to read parts of the product documentation that would be especially beneficial for them. This article presents two real-world examples, how they fail their users, and how to correct the problems.Not the Legal & DisclaimersAlthough the Legal and Disclaimer sections of your documentation are important for the protection of your company (and protection of your company should be ...
11.	Bookmarks: 0	Great Technical Writing: Make Your Product Fit OVERVIEWMost product documentation sounds like their product is the only thing in the User's life. Such thinking results in User confusion and dissatisfaction. This article presents three real-life examples of this attitude, and what should be done to remedy these unfortunate situations. The article concludes with some techniques for the writer.BACKGROUNDThere are two important facts that User Documentation ignores:1. Your product is a only minor item in your ...
12.	Bookmarks: 0	Benefits Of Creating User Documents In-House OVERVIEWFor small companies, creating their product's User Documentation in-house, provides benefits to the company, to (idle) staff, and to the product. This article describes the benefits and some downsides of producing User Documents in-house.THREE OPTIONSIf you have no in-house writing staff you have three options:1. No User Document for the product. This is NOT a valid option. Every product needs User Documentation. It completes your product package, an...
13.	Bookmarks: 0	Writing Helpful Help – A Minimalism Checklist User documentation is all too often written by programmers for programmers. It tends to focus on the product’s features, rather than the user’s tasks. Generally, programmers aren’t in the ideal position to be writing user documentation. They’re too close to the bits and bytes, and they’re too far from the user. To them, what the product can do tends to be far more important than what the user can do with the product.