Annik Stahl

Award-winning writer

Denver, Colorado

Award-winning, Fortune 500 writer with a 20-year successful business writing and editing track record, from the highly technical to the all-purpose in the B2C, B2B, eLearning, technical, internal communications, marketing, end-user, and social networking spaces.

Annik Stahl

Award-winning writer

Denver, Colorado

Busting the Myths of Cloud Computing
For the past several years, the term “cloud computing” (also known as Software-as-a-Service ― SaaS) has been on the minds of technologically-connected people everywhere. For a while it was only mentioned in the tech or business section of the newspaper or perhaps given a five minute treatment on NPR or the nightly TV news.
Tech Writing and White Papers Marketing
Microsoft's Crabby Office lady: Software Advice + Humor
For nearly 10 years, I wrote and produced the "Microsoft Crabby Office Lady," tech/advice column + blog.
Software Advice and Humor eLearning
The Microsoft® Crabby Office Lady Tells It Like It Is: Secrets to Surviving Office Life
Humorous but practical, the lovable know-it-all reveals her secrets in this easy-to-read survival guide based on her popular column.
Software Advice and Humor
What is a Conservationist?
Maybe your idea of conservationists is Birkenstock-wearing, granola-munching hippies with picket signs in front the Capitol building blasting slogans linking global warming to the extinction of the Macedonian Dodo Bird.
eLearning Education
Case Study: Command Transportation
In fact, while Command's one-person cash application team was keying in all the receivables on the busiest days, another four people spent upwards of another half day processing ACHs. Rudich knew that the time had come to look for a more efficient solution.
Marketing
Take your elbows off the table and mind your e-mail manners
I get truckloads of letters imploring me to address the universal lack of e-mail etiquette. From that infernal "Reply to All" button to server-choking graphic files, some cyber-discourtesies are driving us all nuts.
Software Advice and Humor
What is an Exorcist?
Beelzebub. Baal Davar. Leviathan. Antichrist. Prince of Darkness. The Devil. Axl Rose. Whatever you want to call him, this moody, pitchfork-wielding, horn-sporting, fire-breathing, guy is the star of the show (him and his pals) when it comes to exorcisms and other rites involving the removal of devils/demons from bodies/souls/buildings/rooms.
eLearning Education
7 Reasons Your Cash Application Process Needs Overhauling
Time marches on and waits for no man — or cash application process, apparently. There are many symptoms of a sick and suffering cash application process. If you're managing that process the old fashioned way with many dedicated people scanning (and sometimes rescanning) remittances and then keying in data, it's time to consider a new toolbox of tricks.
eLearning Marketing Tech Writing and White Papers
Windows NT Workstation Resource Kit: Deployment Strategy and Details
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation Resource Kit includes essential reference information on installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsnt/4/workstation/reskit/en-us/dep01.mspx?mfr=true
eLearning Tech Writing and White Papers
Demystify a few computer terms and get on with your life
This week, let's explore some of the most common software words and phrases that threaten all that's lovely about our language.
Professional P.R.
A video produced by Denver’s NBC Affiliate, KUSA Channel 9 about the pitfalls of email at work. University of Colorado at Boulder (Alumni magazine): Featured Alum. Columnists Celebrates Eight Years of Getting Crabby With Customers. The Writer’s Gateway: Let’s talk instructional design: Meet the Crabby Office Lady.
Marketing Tech Writing and White Papers Software Advice and Humor eLearning Journalism
Crabby demystifies Access terms
This week's column in my summer "demystifying" series is a great way to introduce you to what some of these basic terms are in Access. And after you have a better idea of what's what, you and I can waltz hand in hand down the path to database nirvana. Everybody say "Om."
Software Advice and Humor Tech Writing and White Papers
Video: Recall, replace, or resend sent mail
Tech Writing and White Papers eLearning
Crabby's tips for telecommuting
While working from the comfort of your own home may seem like a fuzzy-slippered fantasy come true, it does have its pitfalls.
Microsoft Crabby Office Lady
Software Advice and Humor
Cattle Rancher
You have fond memories of your tenth birthday, when your parents gave you a cowboy hat and a rope you later used to lasso and then hog-tie your little brother. You spent hours with that hat and rope, pretending you were a cowboy on the open range. You rode an imaginary horse, herded imaginary cattle, survived imaginary stampedes, and sang melancholy tunes while eating imaginary beans beside an imaginary campfire.
eLearning
Use mail merge to create and print letters and other documents
Tech Writing and White Papers Software Advice and Humor

About

Annik Stahl

Microsoft Office SME

Adobe Creative Suite

Case studies

RFPs

Microsoft SharePoint

Executive comms

Content strategy & management

Blogs

Technical writing

Interviewing skills

Business intelligence

Audience sentiment metrics

Graphics editing

White papers

Articles

WordPress

Editing

Multiple CMS

DITA

Fortune 100 award-winning writer & communications specialist. Strategic storytelling executive comms, and change management for internal & external audiences, digital media, and audience sentiment/engagement.

6 Things About me
1. I'm the one and only "Microsoft Crabby Office Lady." (Look it up.)
2. I have 20+ years experience in content creation, production, curation, and strategy in a variety of geeky industries.
3. I'm a natural program manager--I want to see what everyone is up to & work with them to develop processes to make it more efficent.
4. I geek out on communications. Sure, I can chat you up but I'll also come armed with killer data to back up my recommendations.
5. I don't just edit writers; I teach them to "fish" so that they learn what I changed and why so they can grow.
6. My college job was delivering singing telegrams dressed as a bee, a penguin, or a chocolate chip cookie.
7. Oh wait, I said 6... (#aboveandbeyond)