When the marketing department asked me to write a blog about best practices for managing freelancers, I first thought it was too broad a topic. It could go in so…
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By Ofir Nachmani, CEO, IOD Today, more than ever, we see a constant tension between tech and marketing departments–a love/hate relationship, so to speak. Tech people always think they know…
It’s no secret anymore that strong writers have become a hot commodity at tech companies–and I’m talking about writers of sentences, not code. But can a given writer write about…
By Piotr Gaczkowski, IOD Expert When I first started writing for IOD, my belief was that writing was optional for engineers. I’ve changed my mind. Even though your main responsibility…
By Ofer Prossner, VP Operations, IOD When people ask me if I like to write, I admit that writing can sometimes be a pain, especially if the assignment is one…
By Ofir Nachmani, CEO, IOD Prepare yourself for the brutal honesty in this post. My first confession: I don’t write my own tech blogs. At this point in my career,…
By Ofer Prossner, VP, Operations, IOD
Hi. My name is Ofer, and I might still be a journalist.
I guess that statement requires some explanation. Here’s the background: In college, I studied film and TV with a focus in script writing, and by a stroke of luck and a dose of Israeli chutzpah, I got into journalism. (Okay, so if you want to know the details, someone wrote an op-ed about my favorite sports team and I wrote an – ahem – “highly opinionated” talkback in response. The editor of the paper contacted me and asked me if I wanted to write for them.)
The money in print journalism wasn’t that good when I got there (if it was ever good). To top things off, the newspaper group I worked for was constantly shaking things up, reinventing formats and coming up with plans for how to stop the inevitable fate of print news becoming obsolete as online news consumption became more widespread.
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Writing articles and blog posts is a lot like writing code. First, you nurture an idea in your mind. Perhaps, the idea came to you in the shower, or maybe…
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