Wanted: Technical Writers for Wipro Technologies, Pune

Wipro Pune is looking Technical Writers with three plus years of relevant experience.

If you

• have worked on creation of user manuals, installation guides, FAQs, and glossary



• Possess an incisive perspective of the technical writing process



• Are well versed in publishing tools like Framemaker, Dreamweaver, MS-Office, and Webworks

Send your updated resumes to suman@sumankumar.com



Job location: Pune

Number of vacancies: four



Rush your resume now!




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Job openings for young under-grads and graduates in Spectramind

Spectramind the BPO arm of Wipro is looking for Under Graduates/Graduates with Knowledge in Operating Systems, Email Support, Trouble shooting in Connectivity Problem, Windows 2000, XP, 9X.Microsoft Internet Explorer, Networking Management, Working knowledge of Microsoft® Windows NT® Server and Windows 2000 Server, Working Knowledge of Exchange or comparable e-mail system TCPIP, Hands on in Switches, Routers & LAN / WAN, DOS and PC technology and applications.

Rush your resume to one of the following e-mail ids based on your location preference.

Rush your resumes to one of the following e-mail ids

New Mumbai - wsmcareersbelapur@wipro.com




Chennai - wsmcareerschennai@wipro.com




Delhi - wsmcareersdelhi@wipro.com




Powai - wsmcareerspowai@wipro.com




Pune - wsmcareerspune@wipro.com

Please refer my name (Sumankumar.R) and e-mail id [kumar.suman (at) wipro (dot) com]in your e-mail

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Installing a gas stove: Why I think technical writers are important to this green earth

This morning my wife woke me up from my dreams of swimming with the Dolphins in Mauritius and hollered, 'get the gas stove working man!'. Groggy eyed, I went to the kitchen and unpacked the stove. The burners kept falling off and there were no instructions on the stove or the packaging about how to fit the burners and the knobs. That was the easiest part, you can bring your eyebrows down.

So, I pulled the new gas cylinder that weighed a ton. I had to fix a regulator to the cylinder. A closer look revealed a seal on the mouth of the cylinder. I glanced at my wife who was watching my progress. 'Pull the seal off honey!', she purred, as if it was something even Bush would have figured out. I mumbled an incoherent retort and started pulling the strong wire that bound the cylinder and the seal. I pulled hard. No luck, the damn thing wont budge. I squatted and peered on the walls of the cylinder to find some information that would help me. Nope! No such luck. So, I pulled harder. And the wire cut my left-thumb. My left palm was all crimson. I was incensed. What kind of a manufacturer would ship some thing like a cooking gas cylinder without an installation manual? Bharat gas. Ah!


I squatted again and this I noticed an arrow mark on the seal. Out of curiosity I pulled the wire parallel to the ground (I was pulling it 'up' earlier) and the seal slipped off the cylinder's mouth. Neat! But hey, you know, I would have liked it better if some one had stuck a sticker or probably given a single-page manual on how to install the regulator. If you thought my troubles are over. Think again.

Overjoyed with the seal coming off the cylinder I pounced on the regulator and -you guessed it right - blinked. I rolled it around to find some directon, some snippet that could get me started. My wife started admiring the ceiling, suppressing her laughter. But dude that I am, I was least offended. I took the regulator and started jamming it on to the mouth of the cylinder. Nope. Things are never that easy. I tried everything from banging the regulator's head to dropping it off from a height on to the mouth of the cylinder. Nothing worked. It would just not sit and settle down in the mouth. Frustrated I was pulling up the regulator, and I discovered the slide lock around the regulator. Slide up the lock, sit the damn thing on the mouth, and let go! The regulator squatted firm on the mouth, like a drunk on a barstool. Simple, yes, but... Yeah, yeah if only some one has written it some where.

Now, if you thought my troubles were over. Think thrice. The cylinder supplies the stove with the gas using a reinforced rubber and steel hose. I had to fix the pipe on to the tiny nozzles of the stove and the regulator. And I managed to do it using sheer force. And lost more blood from the cut on my thumb. It is absolutely impossible for a housewife to do it.



As my wife made coffee on our new stove, I was thinking: We technical writers are an important link between products and users. We guide and direct a product's use. A rocket engineer might design a rocket, but who tells the astronauts how to use the loo or the inter-galactic phone in the darn rocket? You.

So, my technical writing friend, the world would be a miserable place without writers like us. Don't go on that cloud number nine yet. Relax. Come down here and listen to daddy: Please remember this poor guy that cut his hand while pulling off the seal from the gas cylinder. If you had had written that small note ('Pull gently, parallel to the ground.') he wouldn't have a cut his thumb today. Remember a product's use overrides the product itself. No use. No product. No user. No use. Follow this and you will be able to afford those cruise trips, and yes, Dolphin watching in Mauritius.


Write to me: Suman[at]techwritersindia[dot]com

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Context Sensitive 'Sticky Notes': Stick a Sticky Note to your Blog!

Conceptworld's Quick Notes Plus might appear like any other Sticky Notes Plus (QNP) program, but its context-sensitive notes feature is mind blowing: QNP is the closest to our paper sticky notes. What I mean is you can stick a paper note anywhere you want and that's what makes them useful. Say, your TV needs repair. You just stick on note on it saying 'Take me to the mechanic or call the mechanic' and every time you drown your lazy butt in the couch the note on the TV reminds you that you have to fix the TV. Paper Sticky Notes are naturally context-sensitive. Most Virtual Sticky Notes software are not. That's where QNP scores. And I think its context-sensitivity alone will make it a leader in its market. So, good luck QNP.

Other possible uses of context-sensitive notes by QNP:

QNP allows you to stick a note to a window. Any window that's open on your PC.


1. Stick a Note to your weblog: 'need to write about the Paris trip' and every time you open your weblog the note would remind you that you got to make a post about your trip. This is cool or what?



2. Stick a note to any document (finished, unfinished)



3. Stick a note to Winamp! (download reminder?)



4. Stick a note to your e-mail program (Outlook or Notes or Eudora). Though most e-mail programs have notes in built; the notes are not prominent... QNP notes appear when you open the e-mail program... and appear prominent.



5. Stick notes to your Yahoo Messenger 'remind John about the party'!

I can go on but I know you got the drift. So why don't you

visit QNP's site and give it a spin? And hey QNP's priced version is only $24.95 and that my friend is a steal.



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New resources for tech writers in India

People I have added a 'Classifieds' program to this site. It is in beta. I am just testing it. Give it a spin at Job Ads and also see The Job Forum.

Tell me which one you like the best. If you have other ideas please let me know. Pass it on to your tech writer friends too.


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You are Invited

After a marathon long-distance courtship of four and a half years, Chitra and I are tying the knot. Be there to share the moment, wish us luck, and see us off as we take our first step towards a journey of a life time.

"When? Where? Whaat?" -> More information here. So all ye blogger friends: be there.

Write to me: suman 'at' techwritersindia 'dot' com

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Opportunity: Tech writer for developing dictionary of terms

Tore Nestenius is looking for a good tenchical writer who can help write a kind of dictionary for software development terms and computer hardware terms. Where terms/words are explained. Interested? Rush your mail to synchron(at)algonet(dot)se .




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