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<title>Measuring Value Added: Rationale and Approaches</title>
<shortdesc>This panel will present case studies on the value&#xD;added by technical communicators and their&#xD;information products to the products and services&#xD;they support. Many of us practitioners would like to&#xD;do more value-adding assessments, but don’t know&#xD;how to adapt the measures to our real-world&#xD;situations of limited budget and often limited&#xD;interest among our customers. The panel will focus&#xD;on practical approaches for applying some of the&#xD;metrics used to calculate the value of our products&#xD;and services (1,2). We will also discuss the benefits&#xD;of this exercise for ourselves and our customers.&#xD;With the current economic clime, waiting for others&#xD;to determine the value of their work often means&#xD;waiting in unemployment lines.</shortdesc>
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<p>This panel will present case studies on the value&#xD;added by technical communicators and their&#xD;information products to the products and services&#xD;they support. Many of us practitioners would like to&#xD;do more value-adding assessments, but don’t know&#xD;how to adapt the measures to our real-world&#xD;situations of limited budget and often limited&#xD;interest among our customers. The panel will focus&#xD;on practical approaches for applying some of the&#xD;metrics used to calculate the value of our products&#xD;and services (1,2). We will also discuss the benefits&#xD;of this exercise for ourselves and our customers.&#xD;With the current economic clime, waiting for others&#xD;to determine the value of their work often means&#xD;waiting in unemployment lines.</p>
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