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How to Prepare A Winning Book Proposal

Preparing a winning book proposal is very similar to bidding on many other freelance documentation projects. This article will show you how to create a book proposal that will give you the best chance of selling your book idea to the publisher you want.

Hedtke, John. IEEE PCS (2008). Articles>Publishing>Proposals

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Ten Rules for Bad Development

here are advantages to being a bad development manager. For one thing, you don’t stand out from the crowd; most development managers are pretty bad. For another thing, bad development managers have a knack for getting promoted in the face of all evidence to the contrary. With mediocrity as the norm, bad development managers have an edge: nobody expects much of them. Perhaps best of all, bad development managers don’t have to do a lot of original thinking. This article identifies the 10 most common things that bad development managers know in their bones. If you follow all 10 of these rules, you’ll be able to hold your head up as the baddest of the bad.

Hedtke, John. IEEE PCS (2005). Articles>Project Management>Documentation

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So, Why Should You Be a Member of STC, Anyway?  (link broken)

As a former Board member, I was often buttonholed by members to discuss what the Board was doing and our plans for STC's future. One of the most common topics of discussion was, "What am I getting for my membership and why should I renew?" Why should you renew? Beats the heck outta me. But I can tell you why I renew, year after year after year.

Hedtke, John. Tieline (2008). Articles>TC>Professionalism>STC

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