A
small sampling of work originally written for
various businesses.
Current (2nd
half, 2011)
Documentation
for VidyoCast, broadcast video production
over IP networks.
Currently working on the 4th through 8th product
operations manuals. Also editing assorted marketing writing,
site content.
Recent:
- Produced a 250-page Event
Productions manual on all aspects from overall and stage management to large screen HD video projection, and full video and sound recording; for WOPI, Los Angeles, 2010. Consulted on/edited inhouse documentation projects.
- Updated
and rewrote a course plan for a daylong introduction to
Mac
OS X.
- Added
interest pages to the site of The Waterfall House,
a vacation rental home in New York's Catskill Mountains.
Wrote: History -
produced:
Area, Vintage
postcards
- Press
releases for MarketingWorks,
Cold Spring, NY
- Posts
for Idea Champions' "Heart of
Innovation" blog, like
"No
Time to Forget About Innovation"
Documentation
B4M Fork
Tutorial / Reference (sample pages),
for a television station automation/database
system.
Reviews of
our documentation / technical writing / information design
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Complete
manuals and many more samples are available in print.
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"Our
Legendary Locale" – Web content for the Waterfall House,
Catskill Mountains vacation rental. (Also produced their purely
visual Vintage
Postcards page, and added a custom map to the Surrounding Areas
page.)
"Jaymark
Jewelers Travels to Antwerp..." for
Jaymark through MarketingWorks,
Cold Spring, NY
"Spotlight
on Local Business: Adams Fairacre Farms"
(Short promotional article for supermarket)
Affordable
Video Conferencing for
Every Desktop (PDF,
53K)
Wireless
Data Collection -
Capture, View Customer Data from Field (PDF 60K)
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
Brochures,
Data Sheets
Company
Product Brochure (for PDM/PLM) 6 pages
SolidWorks Integrator (for PDM/PLM)
Perl Toolkit
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
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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."
Photos by Bill
Ross —
Top,"Vistas" (Location:
Kaaterskill Clove, NY)
Below: NYC from the
air, 2010
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