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		<title>Word 2010 Tip: Keep the last autosaved version if I close without saving.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most users of Microsoft Word make good use of Word&#8217;s autosave functionality and have appreciated the ability to retrieve documents that fell victim to sudden power failures, mysterious operating system or application crashes, or even the cases of overly helpful children or pets. At least you are able to get back the work up until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2011/09/16/word-2010-tip-keep-the-last-autosaved-version-if-i-close-without-saving/</link>
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		<title>Mentoring in Technical Communications (Part 1) &#8211; The Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mentoring is a subject I am passionate about. I have a fiction mentor currently and have had other mentors for other disciplines in the past. I also mentor others on a pretty regular basis. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s my love for instructional design that makes me so passionate about mentoring, but I don&#8217;t remember [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2011/07/05/mentoring-in-technical-communications-part-1-the-problems/</link>
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		<title>Word for Writers talk at the Emerald City Writers Conference!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be giving my short (1 hour) walk through the cheat sheets of my Word for Writers class at this year&#8217;s Emerald City Writers conference in October. Right now I&#8217;m scheduled for Sunday at 11am! Hope to see folks there! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2011/04/03/word-for-writers-talk-at-the-emerald-city-writers-conference/</link>
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		<title>Word for Writers talk today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I gave a shorter talk on my Word for Writers class to the Greater Seattle Romance Writers group. I came away with great data on adding Word 2003 to the book/class and some good questions on issues people have faced with Word specifically. I&#8217;d love to hear more challenges/problems/question as well. Just drop a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2011/03/05/word-for-writers-talk-today/</link>
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		<title>Review: Snagit version 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being able to taking a screen capture and effectively and clearly annotate it are essential skills in both my prior job as a software tester and my current job as a programming writer. I work in the software industry and it’s extremely common for me to have to visually explain how to perform a task [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2011/02/16/review-snagit-version-10/</link>
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		<title>An Experiment in Transpection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, in the course of commenting on James Bach&#8217;s blog, I explained that I liked to learn by laying my beliefs and understandings in front of others for them to question things I may not have questioned and, in turn, to question them to see if knowledge or views they have fill in something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2010/06/25/an-experiment-in-transpection/</link>
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		<title>Chaos != Agility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have the dubious pleasure of trying to provide documentation for a small application that is basically a helper application for our product. It&#8217;s NOT complicated and it shouldn&#8217;t be causing nearly the amount of drama that is currently occurring. This has been probably twenty times more frustrating than my big project. Now, one thing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2010/06/21/chaos-agility/</link>
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		<title>Diversity Groups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was asked an interesting question about how I felt as a female tester and whether I thought I needed or wanted a group focused on Women in Agile. I had to think a bit about my own history in test and remember the few bad times I&#8217;ve had as a female tester. Most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2010/06/05/diversity-groups/</link>
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		<title>Rodent Program Managers &#8211; Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week the rodent program managers have become Nutria: When I stopped to talk to them on Thursday, they told me that one of the development leads had confessed to both the capybara and nutria monikers and they think another PM had started it off with the squirrels tag but they&#8217;re not sure who labeled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2010/04/02/rodent-program-managers-update/</link>
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		<title>The Rodent Program Managers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As in most offices, there is a bit of a tradition of pranking at my office. Pranks that cause physical damage, make it impossible for the victim to work or which are mean are discouraged but some fun pranks still take place. It does help lighten the day, I&#8217;ll admit. Right now there seems to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2010/03/24/the-rodent-program-managers/</link>
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