Shanghai Tech WriterTechnical Writing, Technology, Web2.0, Google, Shanghai, China

The Google+ project launched to a small number of people yesterday. There’s been quite a bit of news coverage on Google+, so I won’t write much about it for now. I’ve got a major product release coming up soon (and no, I’m not on the Google+ team), so I’ll just share an intro video of Google+ below. [...]

Ads Quality Evaluator (full-time contractor position with BeyondSoft) – based in Google Shanghai Quality Evaluators are analytical, multilingual team players who will help us improve the quality of Google’s advertising products. You should be a quick learner, passionate about providing a better advertising experience for Google users and is voracious reader with a broad range [...]

My highlight of the day is eating breakfast at work! I don’t usually have time to eat breakfast at home, so by the time I get to work, it’s 2 hours after waking and I’m starving!  Breakfast is served by the same caterer that serves our lunch, Maggie’s Restaurant (西郊5号). It’s your typical Chinese breakfast [...]

My technologically-challenged husband (who happened to graduate from MIT) finally decided to buy himself a laptop! He has never owned a computer or a laptop in his entire life, so this will be his first laptop! After doing some research, he decided to get a MacBook Air 13-Inch with 128GB flash storage. The next step [...]

There’s a documentation writer job opening in Google London for those who are interested. See job description and requirements below. The area: Engineering Simply put, Google engineers make computers do amazing things. Populated by extraordinarily creative, motivated and talented people, our Engineering team gets excited by developing new applications that really make a difference and [...]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been learning to read/understand the source code of the product I’m working on and gleaning whatever useful information I can find to help me write documentation. The product I work on is developed using both Javascript and C++. I don’t have an engineering background nor do I know much about programming, [...]

My product team has been working on a major release coming up in another few weeks. The engineers are busy coding away to meet the code freeze deadline. I’ve been busy working on the docs, not entirely confident I can finish everything (or anything) before the release date. I’d say, the amount of new docs [...]

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There’s a program manager (technical writing) job opening in the Google Mountain View office for those who are interested. See job description and requirements below: The role: Program Manager, Technical Writing As a Program Manager in Technical Writing, you will drive projects in which Technical Writers will communicate complex technical information in a lucid, concise and [...]

Ever wonder what the appendix looks like without going through an appendectomy?  (Not that you get to see your removed appendix…)  Now you can with the amazing Google Body! This cool app allows you to see a 3D model of the human anatomy. You can see different layers of the human body, such as the [...]