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Websites & Blogs: Besides the ones you're looking at, Melodie maintains another website and two additional blogs. (These are totally NOT technical or high tech sites, in fact they are spiritually oriented.)
Luna Wellness Center, LLC (website)
Luna Wellness blog (blog)
Working with your Angels (blog as the main page, with the website built around it)
She's also routinely maintained several intranet sites for various clients over the last 10 years.
Newsletters: Melodie wrote, edited, and distributed the newsletter examples below. She has a long history of writing, editing, and publishing newsletters that goes back to 1993 when she took over her HOA neighborhood newsletter, kicked it up and notch and made it more "professional."
She was also a professional newsletter staff writer on an award-winning newsletter while working in technology transfer. The examples below are from an IT department talking to its customer base in the rest of the company / agency. This newsletter was put in place as a marketing tool to change the perception of the rest of the agency that the IT department didn't really care about the users and just did whatever they wanted to whenever they wanted to without considering them.
PDF format 4-page done in MS Publisher.
HTML format made for e-mailing (printed length is 10-12 pages).
HTML format made for e-mailing (printed length is 10-12 pages).
She had several people comment about how useful they found on the last issue.
Additional examples (hard copy) from her newsletter staffer days are available on request.
High-level overview: This document is an example of a 50,000 foot overview of a network architecture that's suitable for senior management personnel who do not have much technical depth. Melodie wrote this piece and had the WAN enginner review and comment before it was published. Sensitive details have been redacted from the example.
CBT: Melodie created this computer-based training video using Adobe Captivate. She also did the voice-over and editing. The Flash file is about 6 minutes long and shows you how the Search Commands tab in Microsoft Office 2007 works in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The Search Commands tab is not part of the standard Office 2007. If you would like to download it on your home version of Office 2007, here’s the location at Microsoft: http://officelabs.com/projects/searchcommands/Pages/default.aspx.
Editing: Before and After editing example of a memorandum. Sensitive information has been redacted from the example.
Procedures:
Most technical writing is procedure oriented, and it is not unsual in large companies to have the procedure writer also draft the policy if there is no existing policy. Often, those writing the procedures are the first to identify the need for a new policy, when the new procedure gets to the point of stating policy. (A big no-no because they have two distinct purposes.) Sensitive details have been redacted from these examples.
This example is from a network (LAN/WAN/Network) library she wrote (yes, the entire library!) that contains approximately 122 procedures ranging in length from 50 to 150 pages
This example is one small section of roughly a 4000 page user guide software library that she took over maintenance of, in addition to the LAN/WAN network library. The software library contains approximately 53 "book" sections and is continually expanding.