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	<title>Writing for Techies &#187; The Basics</title>
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	<description>Getting Your Point Across</description>
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		<title>SMART Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard of SMART Goals? I&#8217;ve seen several variations on the title, but it&#8217;s used something like this:



S - Specific
M - Measureable
A - Achievable
R - Relevant
T - Time dimensioned


Most people think of them as important for things like life goals or large projects, but you need to think about them even for small projects.
There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Management 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Basic Project Management
Project Management exists on many levels and with many degrees of complexity. For example, at one end of the scale, I learned project management in the Navy, training to use PERT systems in shipyards on New Construction. I was on USS Enterprise during refueling and USS Virginia when it was built. Building something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning - It&#8217;s Essential to Writing - Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/12/learning-its-essential-to-writing-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to write something, you have to be willing to learn something. I&#8217;m not talking about grammar or style, though learning these things are important. No, I&#8217;m talking about the subject matter you&#8217;re writing about.
In order to write well, you have to understand thoroughly. Understand well enough to express yourself casually without misunderstanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Journaling</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/12/more-on-journaling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said several times, my journal is important to me. I think of it as an intellectual toolkit that helps me think thins through. I&#8217;m not always good about keeping it up, but I know I should.
I ran across this article about journal writing and decided that while I apply it&#8217;s basic points differently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journaling Tools</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/11/journaling-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many ways of keeping a journal, that any guidance given won&#8217;t make sense to someone. The blog Inspired to Journal talks about a number of tools people use to write their journals. All I can do is talk about what I use and ways I&#8217;ve tried.
Let&#8217;s start with my tools.

Notebook - I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journaling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Practical Applications]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several days I&#8217;ve done a number of things with my journal that have led me to say something about how important a journal can be to your writing and speaking &#8230; in fact to everything that you do. I&#8217;m going to use the next several posts to discuss my journal and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you use ME and I right?</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/11/do-you-use-me-and-i-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some looking around this evening and I ran across blog post which led me to another and to another. An interesting sequence because the topic was simple enough, the use of ME and I in sentences. Do you know the difference?
What drew me into this discussion was the title Pronoun Use is NOT Rocket Science. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Structuring Persuasive Writing</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/10/structuring-persuasive-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the main points on this blog is that you need to be understood when you write or speak. This is a problem for many people whether they&#8217;re technically inclined or not. I recently came across a blog post at copyblogger.com that takes an interesting viewpoint on Persuasive Writing.
For many years, people talked about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you writing a Blog?</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/10/are-you-writing-a-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terryd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are, then you should learn from the best. I was looking over a search today and found a blog entry at hackademia.net called &#8220;Good writing makes the difference&#8221; which pointed me a Computerworld article by John Brandon on &#8220;The top 10 best-written blogs&#8220;. I&#8217;m looking at each blog to learn how to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday Project Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter what you&#8217;re writing or speaking about, if it&#8217;s more than a few lines, it deserves some attention and some planning. That&#8217;s basic emphasis of my whole approach. it doesn&#8217;t require Microsoft Project or similar software and doesn&#8217;t require full-blown project management or a specialist like a certified PMP. You need something that I [...]]]></description>
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