atw: Re: Helping users find your docs via search engines

True, Brian (Clarke),

But, in some cases, we can only point out the folly of their stone age ways 
to them and, from then on, be it on their collective MS-DROSS or Windows 
Neanderthal Technology (NT) head.

In the meantime, using a logically named and structured directory system 
for one's documents will really help (us if not them).

Also, entering something meaningful (even in tiny or hidden text) in the 
first line of text can be of benefit when doing a Windows (Flag+F) find 
file containing... and when opening files using the MS Office file preview 
option.

You do what you can do, under the circumstances to add value to your 
customer or employer's business.  Sometimes they just don't want to know 
(scared of change).  Other times, nobody has ever had the gumption to let 
them know how much better things can be, because so many folk are terrified 
by progress, because progress means change and having to learn new 
things.  It also means having to push some entrenched people far beyond 
their areas of technical competence, so tread carefully, as some toes are 
particularly brittle.

That's where sometimes we have to step out of our comfy, but awfully 
tattered old tech writer slippers and step into the shiny shoes of the 
technical communications consultant, where we can take our job providers by 
the hand and lead them into the wonders of the information age.

Surely it is both our duty and our destiny to think outside the square and 
help them (and ourselves in the process) to advance.

There is little point in just sitting by and watching a technologically 
retarded but salvageable company fall even further behind.  They will 
simply become extinct even sooner, which is of no use to anyone except for 
their competitors, who should never be allowed to win without a fight.

Sometimes being a team player means having to take the reins and lead from 
within.

Michael Granat
Write Ideas

At 20:24 25/8/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Michael,
>In some establishments, it is very difficult to enter such data as Title 
>or Author because the IT department has decided such fields are not 
>editable by the workers, ie, you and me. In others where I have been 
>employed, people had been imbibing for so long at the MS-DOS pottie, that 
>all they could do was generate 8-character Filenames, that were almost 
>completely unintelligible to anyone else.
>Brian.

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