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Re: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway"
Subject:Re: A Good Response to "No One Reads the Help Anyway" From:"Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> Date:Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:52:28 -0500
I was about to disagree with #3 until I saw #4. ;-)
But come on, who doesn't want to see a stupid YouTube video while
looking for useful info? ;-)
On Dec 13, 2007 2:42 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> I think they have a third thing in common:
> 3) content that people want/need
>
> and a fourth:
> 4) content that most people don't need.
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