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> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe malone [SMTP:joe -at- MANAGE -dot- COM]
> Subject: "Guided Tour" - Preferred tool?
>
[...] Any suggestions on how to get started? Hire a consultant? Take
a class?
> Just take a guided tour or two for other products? Buy some must-have
> software?
[O'Neill, Kate] Yes. To all of the above. :-)
Seriously, though, the first thing I would do, in your shoes,
would be what you suggested: to take "a guided tour or
two for other products."
Then, depending on the time available, I would proceed by
either figuring out what technologies I wanted to use and
acquiring appropriate tools, or by hiring a contractor to do
it. Even if I hired a contractor, though, I would want to be
closely involved in the project so I'd learn how to do it. But
that's just a personal preference.
At any rate, good luck!
--
Kate O'Neill: Manager of Documentation
Cinebase Software
kate -at- cinebase -dot- com ... direct -at- 650 -dot- 568 -dot- 7343
