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<\/a><\/p>\nDo you see the “Simulator” link on the right side of the ad (in the middle)?<\/p>\n
Of course I could not resist clicking on it, and of course, it led me to:<\/p>\n
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The requested URL \/simulator\/samsung\/droid_charge\/simulator.html was not found on this server.<\/p>\n
Undeterred, motivated by a strong desire to see “has Verizon really done it?”, I searched for the Charge simulator and found it off this page:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.verizonwireless.com\/fs-89def\/t1\/customization\/t1\/Support\/live.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n The first entry was for the Samsung Charge Simulator: Changing the Wallpaper:<\/p>\n It was an instructional tutorial for doing various tasks on the Samsung Charge. \u00a0From a training perspective, it clearly said how to do each function, but I feel this kind of training could benefit from more interactivity (rather than push this, push that). \u00a0This presentation was clearly designed as a training aid, but I wonder if the link from the banner ad went to the same area.<\/p>\n For some time, I have been talking about re-purposing training material as marketing material. \u00a0However, I think the verbatim use (just using the exact same thing) would not be the right approach. \u00a0Training\/support is about teaching skills and solving problems at a detailed level, whereas in a marketing application, I think there would be more of a tie-in to the whole experience (like a case study) and at a higher (less detailed) level, giving the viewer the confidence he\/she can solve the problem, not necessarily taking all the detailed steps.<\/p>\n Again, maybe there is a marketing simulator lurking somewhere that would address these higher-level concerns but in the context of interactive use. \u00a0If anyone does come across such a presentation, please let me know — I would love to see what they’ve done as distinct from the training content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just had a ‘near miss’ experience with something I thought was going to lead me to a simulator used for marketing a product (‘product simulation marketing’, as I call it). I recently bought a Samsung Charge (I’m not usually so hip with regard to my cell phone), but as I was looking around for\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n