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Writing for Business by Bill Ross

An experienced communicator in a wide range of media:

Technical Writing, editing and producing documentation (from user to system levels)
Tech marketing writing: Web content, success stories, promo/collateral, articles, whitepapers, information design, more

A small sampling of work originally written for various businesses.

Currently (summer '08):
Updating and rewriting a courseplan for a daylong introduction to Mac OS X.

Documentation

B4M Fork Tutorial / Reference (sample pages),
  for a television station automation/database system.

Reviews of our documentation / technical writing / information design

Complete manuals and many more samples are available in print.


Promotional Pieces

Spotlight on Local Business: Adams Fairacre Farms (supermarket)

Affordable Video Conferencing for Every Desktop (PDF, 53 K)

Wireless Data Collection - Capture, View Customer Data from Field (PDF 60 K)

Headlines for AltaVista e-commerce site

Product page for AltaVista e-commerce site

Article for regional business development promotion

Script for AltaVista/NBA Halftimes promotion

Script for teamwork training

Customer Success Stories

BUDGETexT Runs Its Business on jBASE

Cook Group Runs Globe-Spanning Array of Businesses on jBASE and Linux

Beta LaserMike Measures Needs, Goes with ProductCenter

Workgroup Rises to the Task for Canadian Forestry Equipment Maker

Data Sheets

SolidWorks Integrator (for PDM/PLM)

AutoCAD Integrator

BOM Editor

Whitepaper

Whitepaper on IBM mainframe security with RSA SecurID® Authentication

Articles/Editorials/Blogging

Blogging about innovation
for Idea Champions' "The Heart of Innovation"
(which I also manage:)

In Your Dreams  (Sept. 30, 2007)
Where do Great Ideas come from?  (Sept. 1)
Building "Living Space" around Railroad Stations (Aug. 21)
How the great Celtics teams won: by Keeping It Simple  (Aug. 10)
Frank Gehry's Designing By Prototype  (July 31)


Articles/Editorials:

An Introduction to XML (Extensible Markup Language)

Hawaii - the Next Silicon Valley?

Scouting the Techno-Frontier


My blog on tech/media/business

  here at Rosswriting.com/blog


Write to inquire --

bill @_rosswriting_._com


By Type:

National Reviews
of our documentation and technical writing
:

"The manual is very well-written…"

“...Thorough, intelligently arranged,” "...strong reference features and clear instructions.”

Reviewer David Pogue: "Then they sent me a draft of the fine new manual, and suddenly light dawned."

From Clients:

"The amount of questions to our Support desk decreased significantly."

"Users find the documentation clear and easy to use."


Voiceovers, too

VO demo, 1:37 (MP3)
 

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