Gmail for Tech Writing

Subject: Gmail for Tech Writing
From: Ed Wurster <glassnet -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:53:09 -0500


Instead of using Word for documentation, Access for content
management, and Excel for payroll, I recommend Gmail. Companies can
save enormous amounts of capital, and spend it on important stuff like
presidential inauguration decorations.

Anyone who has a Gmail account can invite six (6) others to Gmail.
Suppose you have a new product that detects WMD through astral
projection and enhancement symbiosis. You'll probably need six
chapters for that. I can send you six Gmail invites. You, the
documentation and food services manager for WMD-apes Corp., will open
gmail accounts:

1. WMD-Apes -dot- OVERVIEW -at- gmail
2. WMD-Apes -dot- INSTALL -at- gmail
3. WMD-Apes -dot- CONFIG -at- gmail
4. WMD-Apes -dot- BACKUP -at- gmail
5. WMD-Apes -dot- ADMIN -at- gmail
6. WMD-Apes -dot- TRAINING -at- gmail

Give these six addresses to your development team. Whenever a team
member sees something worth keeping, they can email it to one of the
doc accounts. When the project is delivered, give the customer the six
accounts and passwords, and they can search the documentation.

There are many advantages to this approach. It costs nothing (execs
are smiling.) It is scalable (each account can send out six invites.)
It holds a lot (1000 MB per account - that's a lot of Q and A.) You
can hire anyone who likes email to manage this. It is backed up
forever. It costs nothing (bean counters cheer.) Users can add
important items. It has a spell-checker. And best of all, everyone
understands email!

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Ed Wurster
Tech Tips Blog
http://www.ewurster.com/html/tech_tips.html

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