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Subject:Re: text production process From:Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:39:17 -0800 (PST)
"CB Casper" wrote
> If one team provides text, another Word, another pencil
> sketches, etc. the conversion process to Frame burdens
> the writing department, not the senders, but it affects
> the entire company. If everyone used one tool, it would
> allow the writers to focus on the content, the IT group
> would only have to support one tool, etc.
Yeah right. Put 10 people in a room and try to get them to agree on anything.
Put 10 IT guys in a room and watch them kill each other over a "my Linux kernel
is better than yours."
> Sitting down and talking to the ones involved in preparing
> the materials and determining what they need, when they
> need it, etc. can make a big difference.
...and eat up all sorts of time. Why work when there are MEETINGS to be had!
A doc department should take information from any source it can get it. If you
put a sphincter in front of your work, you get shit.
Andrew Plato
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