RE: Requesting feedback for a user guide - good or bad idea?

Subject: RE: Requesting feedback for a user guide - good or bad idea?
From: "Victoria Nuttle" <vnuttle -at- cauto -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:25:01 -0500



When I started at the job I am now, I was surprised/pleased to see a
documentation questionnaire in each manual, especially since nearly all
the doc is internal anyway. After working at jobs where the writers
were so forbidden to talk to the users that we often wondered if we even
had any, I was anxious to start getting feedback to see what needed to
be done with the documentation.

Two years later, I have yet to see a SINGLE form or word of feedback
cross my desk. And no, that does not mean that the documentation is
perfect. There are manuals that haven't been updated since 1997 while
the software itself changes at least monthly. I find that at least *my*
users just don't bother with giving feedback, or in many cases, don't
bother with the documentation at all.

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Victoria J. Nuttle
Technical Writer, Creative Automation
vnuttle -at- cauto -dot- com
708.236.2377



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