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Subject:RE: SUMMARY: If You Were Gonna Teach... From:"Foster, Willow" <WFoster -at- friedmancorp -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:32:26 -0600
Tom Murrell finished a lovely summary for the question:
~> "If you were going to teach a write course to your
~> Subject Matter Experts, what would you stress?"
I'm gonna jump in late on this one.
The only thing I would want to teach my SMEs would be to get to the point.
Sometimes, I get these long, winding e-mails filled with lots of details,
but no real clear reason. When I go over to ask what it means, they say,
"Oh, users can't replace a widget with a thingy."
Willow Foster
wfoster -at- friedmancorp -dot- com
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