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From: techwr-l-bounces+linlaurie1=hotmail -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com <techwr-l-bounces+linlaurie1=hotmail -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> On Behalf Of Mark Giffin
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 10:14 AM
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Subject: Re: Snagit - _used to_ be SnagIt, I believe
Ooh thanks Monique, this is good news if a company is getting rid of camelcase in their logo! I'm really sick of wasting extra keystrokes to type some company's precious camelcase trademark. I've already been typing Linkedin, Github, Latex etc and gleefully ignoring picky capitalization.
Mark Giffin
On 5/15/2020 8:27 AM, Monique Semp wrote:
> I don't know when, but I noticed a while ago that it now seems to be
> "Snagit", no camelCase. I used to be very careful to use camelCase,
> "SnagIt", so surely it was that way originally. But somewhere along the
> way I noticed that on their website it uses "Snagit", both in the logo
> and in their text ([1]https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html).
> So they must've changed it. Because I'm just certain that it wasn't
> like that "before".
> -Monique
>
> On 5/15/20 8:15 AM, Lin Laurie wrote:
>
> Good luck, John!
>
> I think Chris has a really good point. When I look at resumes, I tend
> to discoun t people who make mistakes on products. For instance,
> SnagIt is one of the most popular tech writing tool and most people spell it wrong.
>
> If you can't take the time to correctly spell products in your resume,
> how caref ul will you be with the documentation you write? It could
> even have legal conseq uences when you don't pay attention to things like that and trademarks.
>
> Thanks Chris for just sayin'...
>
> Lin Laurie
> 206.900.1861
> [2]www.linlaurie.com
>
> References
>
> 1. https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html
> 2. http://www.linlaurie.com/
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