[TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Brasel, Russell
Good morning! My ever-evolving help system is about to be launched on the Intranet and will be viewable by our development and testing team. This is the first time my company has ever done this, and, well, it's up to me to further the project and create new procedures that have never before exist

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Brierley, Sean
lf Of Brasel, Russell Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:50 AM To: tcp@techcommpros.com Subject: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates Good morning! My ever-evolving help system is about to be launched on the Intranet and will be viewable by our development and testing team. This i

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Char James-Tanny
> The problem is time. We don't have time for the dedicated overhead of > creating such a system. I happen to know a consultant who can help you get one set up :-p Char James-Tanny ~ JTF Associates, Inc. ~ http://www.helpstuff.com -- Please

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Brierley, Sean
or us, it's doubtful we'd get the okay to spend money on improving tech pubs processes. Cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Char James-Tanny Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:14 PM To: tcp@techcommpros.com Subject: Re: [TCP] Us

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Char James-Tanny
> Well, I kinda wanna figure it out myself. If I have some skilled, > educated, trained, experienced, and generally wonderful consultant do > it, then I don't learn nout. True...of course, you also don't learn the things that you'll need to do once and only once ;-) I appreciate your point. But t

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Bill Swallow
Ah yes, but a truly skilled, educated, trained, experienced, and generally wonderful consultant would help you through it and allow you to do all the work so you learn... and at no additional cost! ;-) On 1/18/07, Brierley, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I kinda wanna figure it out myself

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Milan Davidovic
On 1/18/07, Brierley, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I kinda wanna figure it out myself. If I have some skilled, > educated, trained, experienced, and generally wonderful consultant do > it, then I don't learn nout. And what looks better on your list of achievements for the year, or your

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Brierley, Sean
Whaaat? Am I receiving a hard time? LOL! Actually, it's not my call. But I stand ready, willing, and eager to keep learning what I need to make it happen. And, if it doesn't get done, then, well, hakuna matata, but it will, someday. Well, if we improve tech pubs, send writers to

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread John Posada
> ...For the last two major releases, our documentation was > ready for press before the product CDs were ready to ship. Sean...doesn't that go without sayimg? John Posada Senior Technical Writer "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the qu

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Brierley, Sean
re is always that chance that some content changes significantly. Cheers, Sean -Original Message- From: John Posada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:43 PM To: Brierley, Sean; tcp@techcommpros.com Subject: Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development up

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Brierley, Sean
; tcp@techcommpros.com Subject: Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates > ...For the last two major releases, our documentation was ready for > press before the product CDs were ready to ship. Sean...doesn't that go without sayimg? John Posada Senior Technical Writ

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread John Posada
> LOL! > It should. The docs should be sent to press a month > before the CDs ship, so the books can be present to > ship with the CDs. > But. > We don't automatically print docs. Docs are printed > when an order is based. I HATE those "buts". Around here, we put ALL documentation except Relea

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Brierley, Sean
A freeze. How quaint. -Original Message- From: John Posada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Since there is a period of about 2 weeks between CD freeze and GA, anything that is discovered in that period of time goes on the RN, w Grins, Sean DISCLAIMER: Important Notice ***

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread John Posada
How do YOU address the period between the cutting of the gold master CD to the availability of the distribution CDs by manufacturing? --- "Brierley, Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A freeze. How quaint. > > -Original Message- > From: John Posada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sin

Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates

2007-01-18 Thread Brierley, Sean
properties and there is no freeze. Cheers, Sean -Original Message- From: John Posada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:20 PM To: Brierley, Sean; tcp@techcommpros.com Subject: Re: [TCP] Using an internal blog for development updates How do YOU address the per