Comments on: Open-Source Tech Writing: the Time is Now http://www.2morodocs.com/2009/10/open-source-tech-writing-the-time-is-now/ New-age technical communication trends Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:20:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jim Duszynski http://www.2morodocs.com/2009/10/open-source-tech-writing-the-time-is-now/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Jim Duszynski Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:12:00 +0000 http://www.2morodocs.com/?p=294#comment-10 Your point about it being impossible for any one person keeping up with all the advances is a good one. While I also agree that nothing accomplishes more than at a face-to-face meeting at times, I don't quite understand the point of meeting just to meet. Even if the purpose is to encourage free communications, in this day and age I my subject matter experts have trouble getting time to meet with me to work on the manual. How do you sell a meeting like this? Your point about it being impossible for any one person keeping up with all the advances is a good one.

While I also agree that nothing accomplishes more than at a face-to-face meeting at times, I don’t quite understand the point of meeting just to meet. Even if the purpose is to encourage free communications, in this day and age I my subject matter experts have trouble getting time to meet with me to work on the manual. How do you sell a meeting like this?

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