Nine Great Last-Minute Gifts

OK. It’s Friday, December 19, and Christmas is NEXT THURSDAY! What can you possibly do now to find the perfect gift for the really deserving technical communicators who are still on your list…the ones who are so hard to buy for?

Here’s a random assortment of uncommon gifts for technical communicators who…

  • Work from their easy chairs
    • Thai Silk Armchair organizer: a shimmering silk chairside valet that lets you keep what you need at hand, like eyeglasses, pens, small notepads, and note cards.
    • Lapalot Lap Desk: a solid, spacious work surface that gives you room to read, write and use a laptop, with a large compartment for writing/reading tools underneath the liftable surface.
  • Organize the offline way
    • Action Note Card Board: a bulletin board without tacks or push pins, where you can post notes to yourself, to-do lists, business cards and more. The board can be mounted on the wall or placed on a table or desk.
    • Single-Sheet Paper Cutters: quicker and safer than scissors for clipping articles, receipts, even tenacious shrinkwrap, this cutting element is a tiny speck of ceramic that barely sticks out beyond its housing to cut just the top sheet of any stack of papers.
  • Are picky (and willing to laugh) about their English
  • Have everything(thanks to Tom Johnson for the these)
    • Fortune cookies with fortunes rewritten as numbered lists
    • Bobblehead with favorite SME’s face pasted on the front
    • Copy of the writer’s favorite style sheet written in Japanese calligraphy
  • Are avid readers
    • Don’t Make Me Think
      The book to read for those who are involved in anything to do with human/machine interfaces, be it computer software, hardware design, websites, even a humble retail store sign.

Rus-shipping orders placed with Levenger.com or Amazon.com by noon on Monday, December 22, are guaranteed to reach their destination before Christmas. INon-retail items require a little more ingenuity.)

Happy last-minute shopping!