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>Subject: Re: "Air Force One" supports our craft!
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>Also, "Contact" emphasizes the importance of accurate assembly
>instructions! ;-D
"Contact" also brings into sharp focus the all-too-common attitude of
"If the target audience isn't smart enough to open the online help/read the
blueprints/find the power-button, they shouldn't be using the system!"
<smirk>
(Disclosure: Back when it was just a book I'd read several times, "Contact"
was the first thing that came to mind while I was attending my first STC
online documentation seminar -- 'Make the information *accessible*!' )
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Dan Brinegar Information Developer/Research Droid/Mac Guy http://www.vr2link.com
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to focus on educating citizens so they have the principles,
the framework and the tools necessary to effect change on their own."
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