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You are all missing my intent and purpose for posting to this group.
I don't need to post to this group for marketing reasons. I already
have over 15,000 users and a few Tech writers won't make a hill of beans
for me in that department.
I intent for being on this group and several others like it, is that I
would like to influence you in some small way to open your minds to a new
way of teaching and learning. With our computers we are no longer
restricted to just TELLING our users how to do this or that, but we can
help them to discover for themselves.
This is the reason I sent the testimonials! These are people (I have
thousands more!) who have learned something, and were moved enough to
write and thank me. How many people on this list have such testimonials
to THEIR documentation??
If you are thinking of writing INTERACTIVE documentation, make it
USERactive. Give them an environment to experiment in, to take chances
in, and most of all to create in.
"I hear and I forget, I see and I forget, I do and I forget" -- confused.
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Walker, Arlen P wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I'm inclined to give folks a lot of slack, but I think we're dancing close
> to the edge here. You say it's applicable to some recent questions: I
> didn't see the questions, but then I may easily have missed them, so I'll
> take your word for it.
>
> But now we're all the way into the Marketing Zone. Against the opinions of
> some accomplished professionals we're asked to balance a bunch of vague
> testimonials from folks who, as far as we can tell, have no basis for
> comparison, little or no knowledge of the field, and, for that matter, who
> may not even exist.
>
> I ask you, haven't we crossed over the line from intelligent discussion to
> blatant commercialism?
>
> I don't know about the rest of you, but if it comes to a contest between
> the judgement of the mysterious "Cindi", "Brandon", and "Nuriya" (we'll
> leave aside the bubble-headed High school kid) against Jim Chevallier's, I
> know who I'll trust. (And, for the record, I am not affiliated in any way
> with Mr. Chevallier, and have disagreed with him on issues in the past.)
>
> FWIW, I tried to access the site to see what it looked like. How many bugs
> were there? Can't say. You see, I couldn't even get in the door to try it.
> ;{>}
>
>
> Have fun,
> Arlen
> Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
> DNRC 224
>
> Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
> ----------------------------------------------
> In God we trust; all others must provide data.
> ----------------------------------------------
> Opinions expressed are mine and mine alone.
> If JCI had an opinion on this, they'd hire someone else to deliver it.
>
>
>
