RE: Information gathering.....

[Tara Charter <chartertmc -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Thank goodness for unbelievable workloads.


--- On Tue, 7/29/08, Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> wrote:

> From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
> Subject: RE: Information gathering.....
> To: "'Lin Sims'" <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 6:43 AM
> The first thing I did was to generate an email to the
> engineering managers
> and engineers who would be affected by the video idea and
> ask for their
> input...pros/cons and any thing else they could think of.
> Only two have been
> positive about the video taping. One is an engineer who
> would not be
> affected and the other helped write the old manuals (in two
> weeks) that were
> so bad nobody (especially Field Service and training) is
> able to use them.
> The remaining individuals are 100% against the idea because
> it would
> increase their already unbelievable workload.
> 
> Al Geist
> Technical Communicator, Help, Web Design, Video,
> Photography
> Office/Msg: 802-872-9190
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>  
> "...I walked to work, quit my job, and kept walking.
> Better to be a pilgrim
> without a destination, I figured, than to cross the wrong
> threshold each
> day." (Sy Safransky)
> 
> Lin Sims wrote:
> 
> Just out of curiosity, has anyone asked the engineers, and
> their
> managers, what they think about this idea?
> 
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