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STORY: SnagIt assists a job-seeking technical writer
Finally, the phone rang. Tracy punched the 'Talk' button as hard as if it
were an elevator button and she was late to dinner.
Happily, she heard the words she'd hoped to hear and quickly accepted the
technical writing position.
"Yes, Tracy," her new boss continued, "we were especially pleased with
certain elements of your interview. For instance - this SnagIt you talked
about? Could you again brief me on how it saves you time and can make
work easier for all technical writers?"
Tracy could hear the smile in her own voice as she told him SnagIt's main
virtues.
"You can input any area of the screen you want - which means you don't
have to edit. You can output where you want - the printer, the virtual
SnagIt printer, the Web, a file, the Clipboard, etc - or all of them
simultaneously. And last, it includes SnagIt Studio, which lets you
annotate your captures."
Tracy paused. "Maybe that's not last - the best part is that SnagIt costs
$39.95 for a single-user license, $200 for a ten-user, and $500 for a
25-user."
"A technical writer who's not only talented but also cost-conscious? I
knew we made the right decision," her boss replied.
As Tracy hung up the phone, she leaped for joy awhile and then saw the
SnagIt icon on her screen. "You know," she said to herself, "SnagIt is an
example of how I want to work - quickly and efficiently."
Was it too much to place a framed picture of the SnagIt icon on her desk
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Go to www.techsmith.com to learn how SnagIt assists technical writers.
ANN: Online-Learning.com presents Course Authoring & Delivery Process
Online-Learning.com (OLL) will share details from its very
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October 20-23 in Toronto, Ontario. Through research and a
collaborative methodology, OLL has been able to balance cost-
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rates increase to 80%.
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authoring and has developed a six-stage authoring process to
facilitate the development of its online courses.
OLL's proven mentored-learning model for delivering courses has
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industry whose eLearning dropout rates range up to a high of 70%.
OLL has been delivering courses online since 1995.
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