FW: [dita-fa-edboard] RE: today's meeting...

["JoAnn Hackos" <joann.hackos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: JoAnn Hackos 
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:58 PM
To: Carol Geyer
Cc: Jennifer Linton
Subject: FW: [dita-fa-edboard] RE: today's meeting...


Carol,
I'll have Jen upload the document tomorrow morning. 

Scott has two questions below. There were no others.

How about --- plus Scott's questions?

Do you believe that transitional text is a necessary component of most
technical manuals?

Yes ____  No ____ Don't know ____

Do you believe that users of technical manuals find transitional text
valuable?

Yes ____  No____ Don't know ____

Do you have data to support your opinions?

Yes ____ No ____

JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
President
Comtech Services, Inc.
710 Kipling Street, Suite 400
Denver, CO 80215
303-232-7586
joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com
www.comtech-serv.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Prentice [mailto:sp@leximation.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 11:26 AM
To: JoAnn Hackos
Subject: Re: [dita-fa-edboard] RE: today's meeting...

Hi JoAnn...

Interesting article .. you make some very good points, although I think 
it may be hard to break people of this need to use transitional text.

A poll question might be ..

    "How long will it be until you're able to remove all transitional 
text from your content?"
    () don't have any to remove!  () 1 mo.  () 6 mos.  () 1 year  () 5 
years  () never

Or .. you could ask something like ..

    "What would be the impact on your staff of removing transitional
text from your 
documentation?"
    () none at all  () moderate initial confusion  () significant
problems

??

...scott


JoAnn Hackos wrote:
> Sounds good 
>
>
> JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
> President
> Comtech Services, Inc.
> 710 Kipling Street, Suite 400
> Denver CO 80215
> 303-232-7586
> joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol Geyer [mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org] 
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 7:10 AM
> To: 'Scott Prentice'
> Cc: JoAnn Hackos
> Subject: RE: today's meeting...
>
> We're going to call the monthly feature <soapbox>.
>
> Everyone should review the article JoAnn resent yesterday and send her
> suggestions for a related poll question. I think that was the only
> action item for the group. JoAnn will post the article to the FA and
> select a poll question from the suggestions, let me know, and I'll add
> the <soapbox> box to the homepage, set up the Forum topic, and switch
> the poll.
>
> Anything I forgot, JoAnn?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Prentice  
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:56 PM
> To: Carol Geyer
> Subject: today's meeting...
>
> Hi Carol...
>
> Was someone going to be sending out something that we were supposed to
> review? Were there any resolutions that I should be aware of? Sorry I
> had to skip out early!  :)
>
> ...scott
>
>
>
>
>
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