Re: Snagit - _used to_ be SnagIt, I believe

Subject: Re: Snagit - _used to_ be SnagIt, I believe
From: Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 15:15:09 -0400

They probably hired some of those offshore senior web developers. This is
all top secret James Bond kinda stuff, don'tcha know.

Bob

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 3:08 PM Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:

> that's hilaroious - they shut down their website for 6 months to add
> their logo to every page??
>
> On 5/15/2020 11:21 AM, Lin Laurie wrote:
> > LOL they do seem to have changed. But they are still TechSmith.
> ServiceNow is another one that's a pain. I think they used to be two words
> and now they are one but with a cap on the Now. It's tedious but I used to
> work on checking all that stuff with legal before publishing and I still
> occasionally have to do that. Trademarks have to be used appropriately too.
> >
> > I got sued once in the 90's for using a name similar to another
> company's. I'd checked before picking that name and the company had not
> used their trademark at all on their web site or other materials. Plus
> their business wasn't similar. I did have to change my company name, but
> they had to pay me for my expenses to do it because they didn't use their
> mark correctly and they almost lost their rights to their name, plus they
> pulled their web site down for 6 mos to rewrite it so that it appeared on
> every page.
> >
> > Lin Laurie
> > 206.900.1861
> > www.linlaurie.com
> >
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> John Allred
> > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 10:48 AM
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> > Subject: Re: Snagit - _used to_ be SnagIt, I believe
> >
> > To me, it's fine to honor a company's preference, or even its trademark,
> if you choose. And it's fine to ignore it, if that's your preference.
> > Not sure it qualifies as an "issue," though. Some things simply are.
> >
> > ~john
> >
> > On 5/15/2020 12:14 PM, Mark Giffin wrote:
> >> Ooh thanks Monique, this is good news if a company is getting rid of
> >> camelcase in their logo! I'm really sick of wasting extra keystrokes
> >> to type some company's precious camelcase trademark. I've already been
> >> typing Linkedin, Github, Latex etc and gleefully ignoring picky
> >> capitalization.
> >>
> >> Mark Giffin
> >>
> >> On 5/15/2020 8:27 AM, Monique Semp wrote:
> >>> I don't know when, but I noticed a while ago that it now seems to
> >>> be
> >>> "Snagit", no camelCase. I used to be very careful to use
> >>> camelCase,
> >>> "SnagIt", so surely it was that way originally. But somewhere
> >>> along the
> >>> way I noticed that on their website it uses "Snagit", both in the
> >>> logo
> >>> and in their text
> >>> ([1]https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html).
> >>> So they must've changed it. Because I'm just certain that it
> >>> wasn't
> >>> like that "before".
> >>> -Monique
> >>>
> >>> On 5/15/20 8:15 AM, Lin Laurie wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Good luck, John!
> >>>
> >>> I think Chris has a really good point. When I look at resumes, I tend
> >>> to discoun t people who make mistakes on products. For instance,
> >>> SnagIt is one of the most popular tech writing tool and most people
> >>> spell it wrong.
> >>>
> >>> If you can't take the time to correctly spell products in your
> >>> resume, how caref ul will you be with the documentation you write? It
> >>> could even have legal conseq uences when you don't pay attention to
> >>> things like that and trademarks.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks Chris for just sayin'...
> >>>
> >>> Lin Laurie
> >>> 206.900.1861
> >>> [2]www.linlaurie.com
> >>>
> >>> References
> >>>
> >>> 1. https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html
> >>> 2. http://www.linlaurie.com/
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References:
Linked-In and Job Interview: From: John Posada
Re: Linked-In and Job Interview: From: Carolyn Palo
Re: Linked-In and Job Interview: From: Chris Morton
RE: Linked-In and Job Interview: From: Lin Laurie
Snagit - _used to_ be SnagIt, I believe: From: Monique Semp
Re: Snagit - _used to_ be SnagIt, I believe: From: Mark Giffin
Re: Snagit - _used to_ be SnagIt, I believe: From: John Allred
RE: Snagit - _used to_ be SnagIt, I believe: From: Lin Laurie
Re: Snagit - _used to_ be SnagIt, I believe: From: Mark Giffin

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