RE: Video vs The Written Word

[stevefjong -at- comcast -dot- net]

We had a manager come in with a grand plan to modernize the documentation with Camtasia videos. I agree that it is the way of the future, but in that implementation, not only did we encounter the revision issue already mentioned, but the few videos we produced took more space on the release CD than all the software, documentation, and Help put together--so much so that a second CD was required, to the ire of upper management.
(It was also my impression that it also took more time and effort to produce half an hour of simple tutorials than to update several thousand pages of Help--the same guy did both, but it wasn't me.)

With better tools, this is the way to go. Maybe not yet...

-- Steve 

Steven Jong ("Typo? What tpyo?") 
Past President, STC Boston Chapter 
stevefjong -at- comcast -dot- net, 978-413-2553 [C] 
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