RE: Why marketing should make the user manuals

["Joe Malin" <jmalin -at- tuvox -dot- com>]

Interesting idea, but if I have to choose between great-looking stuff
and stuff that actually *helps me*, I'll choose the latter. My prejudice
is that most of the flashy stuff I've seen either online or in print was
kinda low on content. Organize it, make it clear, and make it accurate,
and I'll take it hand-written!

Joe

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Subject: Why marketing should make the user manuals

Here's a blog post from the Creating Passionate Users blog calling 
for marketing to make user manuals..the marketing brochures look 
great, then when we get the people in, we give them dull black and 
white user manuals. 
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/08/why_market
ing_s.html

Both the article and the comments (pro and con) are interesting.

Keri Morgret
Morgret Designs
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