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Re: What alternatives are there to "Information Mapping"?
Subject:Re: What alternatives are there to "Information Mapping"? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Mark Baker <mbaker -at- omnimark -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:48:02 -0800 (PST)
I remember that memo, it used to be on a web site and
you would be timed on how quickly you could find
certain words or phrases.
The goal was to prove that their way was faster.
Ironically, I was able to scan for the words faster
than they said I should, so I "failed" the test.
--- Mark Baker <mbaker -at- omnimark -dot- com> wrote:
>
> ian.saunders wrote
>
>
> >Does anyone have any comments (good or bad) about
> the "Information Mapping"
> >method of organising and presenting information?
> Are there any other
> >alternative methodologies that I might consider for
> training staff to
> write?
>
>
> I recently attended a seminar (read: sales pitch) on
> Information Mapping. In
> the course of this seminar we were given a simple
> exercise.
>
> First, we were given a memo written in paragraph
> form. The memo was densely
> written without breaks or headings and with lots of
=====
John Posada, Merck Research Laboratories
Sr Technical Writer, WinHelp and html
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