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Friday, October 19, 2007

Monday's readings

Three essays by Kathy Sierra:
“Are your users stuck in ‘P’ mode?”

“Why marketing should make the user manuals!”

“How to get users to RTFM”
Posted by Chuck Stull at 1:44 PM
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