On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote: > Don Cunningham wrote: > >> We were PROMISED an "enhanced" manual around Christmas, 2010... > > A new operating manual actually was written, by a third party (based > on their enthusiastic pitch, we agreed to let them have a crack at > it). But when we reviewed it last month, we had very significant > differences over style and content. So we're back to the drawing > board, looking for possible authors. Our own tech writer would do an > excellent job, but he's scheduled out many months on project manuals.
Wayne: I know this may not be the most popular opinion but the fact is in my opinion, you don't need an updated manual. Trying to develop the perfect manual is a complete loss leader with very little return. Trying to write a long compendium about an evolving product makes absolutely no sense to me! :-) What you do need is an Elecraft Wiki where you can leverage the strong/knowledgeable/enthusiastic customer base to generate helpful content in addition to this list. A content management system of some type (Joomla, Wiki, Knowledge-base, etc.) would not only provide a forum in which Elecraft could write more in-depth articles about various popular topics but also be self-updating to some extent. Users of Elecraft products would help in managing, updating, and contributing content on a regular basis. Obviously this has to be a managed site to some extent with Elecraft having the final say about certain types of content, but it seems to me a no brain-er that a lot of the information disseminated on the this mailing list should be aggregated to a central site. 73 -aps ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
