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Subject:Re: New Media From:"William Turner" <wturner -at- force10networks -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:31:08 -0700
When my co-writer saw my idea on this forum for using a blog to host doc
reviews, she recounted her failure to get reviewers to review documents
with Acrobat's annotation tools, by opening them from a common server.
In contrast, as someone here mentioned, email has the advantage of
keeping the subject in front of everyone, and I have received some
useful comments through emailed reply-all flurries.
Perhaps managerial enforcement of doc signoffs is the critical element
in making a blog (or something similar) successful as a doc review site.
Too often, people consider doc reviews as a low-priority task.
As a silver lining, now Walt Campbell has got me enthused about the
possibility of using a wiki for mutual creation and management of
internal documentation -- process docs, style guides, use of software
tools.
Will Turner
Sr. Technical Writer
Force10 Networks
wturner -at- force10networks -dot- com
408-965-5112
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