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>Is there anyone on the list that works for IMI?
>
There's one around here somewhere, dunno if she can answer for IMI, and I'm
not attempting to answer for her, but here goes....
The way it stands now, as far as I know; is that you can't claim to be
using IMI methodology (or advertise your documentation services as such) if
you're not IMI certified <ahem!>, nor can you use IMI software tools, or
the terms "Information Mapping," "InfoMap," etc., without noting that
"Information Mapping is a registered trademark of IMI...."
Fortunately, the chunking Police have never come around asking for my cert
or wondering where my copy of _Strategies for Producing High-Performance
Documentation_ went... 'Well, <ahem> y'see, when my marriage ended..."
More important than that, tho, will be how lame that excuse sounds when I
hafta apply for Social Security, get recalled to active duty during WWIII,
or want to listen to a particular Beatles record.
[Extra points to thos who can identify which IM principle has been violated
by the previous sentence].
>I was taught Information Mapping when I worked for a company nearly ten
>years ago. The company took the basics of IMI and revised it somewhat to
>fit their corporate policies.
>
>Later....I was told by the company that they had
>approached IMI once and were told that if IMI principles were followed in a
>document (like block lines, chunking, the 7+/-2 rules, etc.) that they
>would have to pay a royalty back to IMI.
>
>I need to know if this is true so I won't accidently break any copyright
>laws.
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Phoenix, Arizona
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