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Subject:How do you announce new features? From:"Bowes, Rebecca" <Rebecca-Bowes -at- IDEXX -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 7 Nov 2012 15:13:34 +0000
When your company releases a new version of software, how do you announce its new features?
Our company is looking for a better approach than our current method, which is a new-features guide that actually duplicates the same information included in the user manual. I've used other methods at other companies-such as a release notes text file and a new-features online help topic--but I have no idea which approach, if any, is better than another.
Any thoughts or recommendations from the community?
Thanks for your insights!
Rebecca
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