Category: Release Notes
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The Difference Between A Changelog and a Release Note
Many teams get confused about the difference between a changelog and a release note. Often, they are grouped together or used interchangeably to describe written alerts that tell a product’s latest changes. However, there may be a few nuanced differences between the terms. Let’s dig in a bit and understand why they are actually two…
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Release Notes: A Study of a Few Great Examples
When teams are looking to template or organize their release notes, the first question is, “how should I present them to our audience?” The short answer is: it depends. You may have to ask yourself a few basic questions first. These might include: By clarifying these questions, you’ll have already begun to develop a set…
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Want People to Read Your Release Notes? Make Them Interesting.
Release notes can be practical marketing tools. However, like any other marketing material your team creates, the content needs to be engaging and meaningful. There’s nothing worse than writing something that nobody will read – which is why it’s essential to make sure your release notes aren’t too long, technical, or confusing. Why Are Release…
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Have a Product Update? Here’s How to Release the News Effectively
When your team is successfully rolling out new features or fixing bugs, it’s essential to share the news with your user base. An effective way to do that is to post release notes. Release notes allow your company to share the news that: Any update to your product that has increased or changed its usability…
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Release Notes Style Guide: How to Get Started
Many companies struggle with release notes. Either they don’t see them as necessary and treat them as an after-thought or overthink the process entirely and get into far too much detail. Release notes don’t have to be a pain to write, but they should be treated as an essential part of your marketing process. If…
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How to Simply Writing Your Release Notes
If you are a team or a company that has been struggling with release notes and how to do them effectively, you’re likely not yet standardizing the process. That involves creating a template you can stick to – one that any team member can access and understand so that they can write up release notes…
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Making Release Notes User-Friendly for Your Audience
If your company makes release notes, it’s important to remember that your audience is your user base. As your user base will be reading these informative documents, it’s important to remember that: Therefore, if your release notes are overly technical, and don’t explain to your audience why they should care, likely your release notes aren’t…
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The Art of Release Notes: Typical Problems and How to Address Them
Every company releasing software updates should have release notes – technical documentation that outlines recent changes, features and enhancements, or bug fixes. Typically, the job of drafting release notes falls to the product manager – who may or may not be much of a wordsmith. However, release notes are essential as they explain to a…