Re: Mine, mine....ALL mine!

Subject: Re: Mine, mine....ALL mine!
From: "Tom Johnson" <tomjohnson1492 -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:54:39 -0600

Do you really need the term "User"? Could you replace it with the product
name? "User" sometimes has negative connotations. See this thought-provoking
post by Josh Bernoff:
http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2007/07/im-sick-of-user.html

Tom

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On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> POLL:
>
> User Manual
> User's Manual
> Users' Manual
>
> Which one blows your hair back?
>
> > Chris
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