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Subject:RE: Notifying for Reviews and Routing approvals From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"'Jeanne -dot- Keuma -at- ch2m -dot- com'" <Jeanne -dot- Keuma -at- ch2m -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:09:24 -0400
> To the group of reviewers, an email (with the document attached or
> linked to) via Microsoft Outlook using the "voting" feature
> so they can
> select a voting button ("I reviewed and approve" or "Reviewed and
> revised; forwarding document" or "No opinion" or something similar).
> The option to attach a deadline ("follow up by" with a red flag) is
> helpful too. Then you have a definite record that they were notified,
> they had a chance, and they did or didn't respond.
There might be something to this...let me think about this
John Posada, Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
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