Sooo, is all digital tech writing micromanaged to death with no editorial process or is it just me?

As first months go, this is terrible 😂

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Uh oh... can you elaborate? (Former editor, starting a new content job in tech next week)

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The draft > markup > edit > draft process is all mashed together because everyone is working live in cloud documents. Few people seem like career writers. Requests for feedback are met with 'well, what do you think?"

Pretty much all the copy sins.

So far everywhere I’ve been…yes. But I think I’ve been unlucky enough to specifically have micro managers for supervisors and the process has been super messy with like 10 separate rounds of feedback from different stakeholders vs consolidated/let’s make sure all of this isn’t conflicting.

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They also think they can mob their way to creative work in a one hour meeting with 12 people. I've never seen anything like this 💀

Similar, but different: our writers are all working for a machine. Keywords and SEO matter more than the actual content or compelling writing.

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