Questions posted on a whiteboard in a high traffic area at work intentionally stimulate discussion and whiteboard posting from passing coworkers.

Recently, the whiteboard displayed the following statement:

You know you’re a technical communicator when…

Check out these technical writer responses:

• your first question is “WIIFM?” (your audience wants you to give them the scent of: “what’s in it for me?”)
• you try not to edit someone’s work, unsolicited
• you avoid using red ink when proofreading someone’s work
• you mindmap conversations
• you always have a main point, surrounded by 7 +/- 2 sub-points
• rather than bash Micro$oft Weird as your coworkers do, you’ve mastered and tamed it to create monster user documentation
• like this post, everything you write scores below 8.5 on the Flesch-Kincaid scale