RE: If you had 15 minutes...

[Viv Crawford <viv_crawford -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Thanks everyone on- and off-list for your suggestions. 

 

I don't want to do anything grammar or English related. Anyone who writes anything is competent already. And I am already the person that puts the words on the UI. 

I don't want to sell 'User doc' as the (customer-facing) people who hired me already know User doc is required. The others will never be convinced. 

 

(I didn't tell you this up front to try and avoid prejudicing any responses!)

 

I might try something around the 'I am an interpreter' vein. I translate 'expertese' from my experts into 'userese'. Hopefully, it will demonstrate a value-added activity whilst allowing flattering of egos :) 

 

If you've got other ideas though, I'd still like to hear them. I have to do this every few weeks...

 

Thanks!
 
> From: viv_crawford -at- hotmail -dot- com
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> Subject: If you had 15 minutes...
> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:32:19 +0100
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> to present something to your entire company, what would you present?
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> Every morning, one of us presents a 'something'. Often developers do show and tells of whatever they've developed recently, or tools or technologies they are investigating or implementing. Managers and account managers will update us on how various opportunities are progressing. The admin people will periodically update us on the procedures we should be following. 
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> Normally, when I present, because I'm fairly new in post, I'm able to preset a new thing. First time, I showed the tool I was intending to buy. Next time round I showed some prototype output I'd made with said tool. The next time I used this slot to get developer buy-in and feedback on how I was intending to refer to various UI elements (hemidemisemisubtabs etc...) in the forthcoming manual.
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> I'm due to present again next week and am wondering, if you could talk to your entire company for 15 to 20 minutes about anything at all, what would you tell 'em? 
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> Would love to hear,
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> Thanks!
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