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A Day in the Life of a Cloud Technical Writer: Daniel Morton Daniel is a member of the Content Team. It's a relatively new team at CenturyLink Cloud. They're the engine for technical content across the cloud platform, public and the Developer Center. Their main focus is improving the developer experience by facilitating great documentation, tutorials, sample apps, copy edit, and blog posts. Basically, they take the fear and anxiety out of content creation. The word on the street is that they do all the "heavy lifting" for you to make that happen.

They help the other cloud product teams navigate their content through corporate marketing, legal, social, and imagery. They also provide editorial and topic guidance along the way, and encourage the different teams wherever they can to build documentation into their sprints. It's all about driving traffic to the web site and the results coming from that.

The Content Team shares a team room with the Digital Team on the 4th floor. Their room is affectionately called "Words and Numbers". It's a good set up. The two teams often work closely together. The time clock below is a general rule of thumb for his day. But it's pretty typical --- when he drives to the office that is. The team also works from home. Ah, the perks of working here. He says the only difference on a WFH day is that he tends to dress a little more on the casual side and his commute is a lot shorter!

Daniel lives in St. Louis with his wife, Laura. They don't own a television. He's also a canonically ordained Orthodox Christian priest; so he's usually busy on the weekends. They both love cycling: Forest Park, Creve Coeur Lake, all points in between, the wetlands, Katy Trail, or the Great River Road. Heat and humidity isn't an issue. The hotter the better. You sweat buckets. They're used to it; and they love it. You just have to stay hydrated. That's all.

Stay tuned for future installments of our "Day in the Life Series," and let us know if there's someone in particular you'd like to hear from!



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