Category: Release Notes

While release notes themselves look streamlined and straightforward to the casual observer, there are many moving parts that need to stay organized, so the whole process doesn’t go off the rails. Here are a few helpful guidelines that can help you manage your template and make creating release notes faster and easier over time. The…

A style guide is an essential component of any marketing strategy. It’s a document that basically provides your marketing team with guidelines that outline the proper visual elements and language/grammar approaches that will define your brand. Style guides create clear and cohesive outlines meant to reflect your company’s brand voice and style to keep everything…

While release notes typically are designed as organized bulleted lists, there are ways to punch them up for extra impact – or to help you illustrate the story behind the change. When writing your release notes, considering adding in a mixture of these elements to help your user base understand what the release note means…

To get the most out of your release notes, you need to put them in the hands of the right person or team. Whoever owns them needs to maximize their use and ensure the information within them gets in front of the affected users. Typically, release notes end up being public versions of changelogs. However,…

There are quite a few choices on the market for a company looking for a solution that can help them manage and distribute their release notes. While some teams want to organize internal changelogs, others may want to use release notes as an opportunity to connect with their audience more closely. Whatever your goals, there’s…

Release notes should be used as a marketing tool and a way to connect with your audience. However, many companies end up burying their release notes in the back pages of their websites and don’t consider other ways actually to put them front and center. As a potential marketing tool, it’s a good idea to…

When it comes to making a good release note, there are some definite Do’s and Don’ts. This includes: DO: DON’T And, while every company is different, and each company will have its own layout and priorities when it comes to notes, there are definite ways NOT to present release notes to your user base. We…

If you are a company with a product that goes through many release cycles and updates, you want to keep your audience informed of the changes. Enter the release note. A release note allows a company to check in with their user base and explain changes such as bug fixes or UX tweaks. It’s an…