Product "training" and orientation: anything surprising/interesting?

Common Craft creates some great explanatory videos. Here's one
example: http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter

On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Gretchen Anderson wrote:

> Looking for some inspiration about how to orient people to a UI in a
> novel way. Of course, no training should be required, but there's some
> legal reasons why we need to do it for a project. Anyone seen any cool
> vids/demos/tutorial modes out there lately I could check out?

I liked the video for Google Mobile Apps:
http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/app.html.

--Mary

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You could spend tens of millions of dollars on placing advertising
that does little more than demo the product, the way Apple did with
iPhone.

(I'm only half-joking. It was a brilliant move on their part.)

--peter
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