Lisa, I have no good writerly suggestions....what other sort of writing besides technical writing are you doing? What would the next title up at your old job have been?

I'll be doing proposal & marketing writing. And updating their website content...which is really rather awful. I think I am a Technical Writer III here and the next one up is Lead Technical Writer. But that doesn't make sense for new job because I will be the only writer there.

Is Documentation Specialist dorky?

Is Documentation Specialist dorky?

It's not dorky at all, but it suggests something more tech than marketing to me.

We have Content Developers here.

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I have no helpful suggestions, lisah. Sorry!

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It's not dorky at all, but it suggests something more tech than marketing to me.

Well, I do want my focus to be technical. I am happy that I'll be getting some more marketing-writing experience, and clearly they need someone to do that kind of writing for them, but I'm not interested in marketing as a career.

Documentation Specialist is good, but it makes me think of manuals.

On the offbeat side, I like:

Messager or Wordsmith (which I've seen several times)

My personal favorite title was "Special Projects Juggler". It got a lot of attention, served as a conversation starter, smile generator and all around good-will launcher.

eta: oooh. I like Content Developer! It sounds tech and it breeds respect.

It got a lot of attention, served as a conversation starter, smile generator and all around good-will launcher.

I'd really rather have something that strikes fear in the hearts of everyone I meet.

Ha!

I love that image. Fear my words...they'll cut ya.

eta: for some reason, I just flashed on Director, Inquisitorial Squad

What about Technical Communications Specialist?

Argh, this is so fucking irritating. I'm in the office, where I'd like to be doing work, only I can't do work because I don't have a password to get onto the main office server, because they won't give me one. And there's no one with a password here, or returning my calls. Argh. And it's me who's going to be bent over tomorrow if it's not done. Argh.