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Re: What do you do when you don't have anyone with the time to review and edit your docs
Subject:Re: What do you do when you don't have anyone with the time to review and edit your docs From:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:neilson -at- windstream -dot- net Date:Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:54:49 -0500
> Or call attention to the paragraph you have inserted in a FAKE FIRST PAGE from a fake version of the doc (a genuinely fake one, not kept with in actual doc's storage area) that proclaims, "If you experience any problems with this product or its documentation, please telephone DEVELOPER'S NAME at DEVELOPER'S ACTUAL CELL PHONE NUMBER any time, day or night."
>
> That'll get some sort of action.
I've done this type of thing before. It's definitely a
know-your-audience tactic, but with more laid-back groups it can
certainly be funny and effective. I had done that to one programmer,
and another reviewer corrected the contact info for that programmer by
providing a cell number, his home number, and a photo. ;)
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