Monday, March 3, 2003
Usable Help: Exploring embedded Help
"If Help is made inseparable from the user experience it might finally stop being mere 'documentation'".
8:40:24 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth []

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Gerry McGovern: Why content management software hasn't worked
"Content management software hasn't worked because it was badly designed and massively over-hyped. Software companies lied about their products, charging criminal prices for crap software. It hasn't worked because organizations didn't understand content. They wanted a quick fix. They issued specifications that bore little relation to what they actually needed."
[Via elearningpost]
Or maybe it hasn't worked because, like knowledge management, it's an oxymoron. Or perhaps because "content" is such a vague a word that no one knows what managing it would look like. Here's the punchline, though: organizations are able to write and publish effectively "because they have excellent editors and writers, and because they have well-defined, well-policed publishing processes and policies".

8:15:27 AM | permalink | Bare your teeth []

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