Re: How do you announce new features?

[david hendler <freetaco -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Email blast to installed user base who might be affected / interested in
feature or product, brief announcement on main web page with link to blog
post and/or product page, additions to release notes.



On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Bowes, Rebecca <Rebecca-Bowes -at- idexx -dot- com>wrote:

> When your company releases a new version of software, how do you announce
> its new features?
>
> Our company is looking for a better approach than our current method,
> which is a new-features guide that actually duplicates the same information
> included in the user manual.  I've used other methods at other
> companies-such as a release notes text file and a new-features online help
> topic--but I have no idea which approach, if any, is better than another.
>
> Any thoughts or recommendations from the community?
>
> Thanks for your insights!
>
> Rebecca
>
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