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  * TRAINING: Content Management JumpStart ? January 18-19, 2005 (NEW)
  * STORY: SnagIt Outputs (NEW)
  * TRAINING: FrameMaker, XML, and Indexing with 
              Bright Path Solutions 
  * ANNOUNCE: Client Usability Testing Opportunity at CU Denver 
  * ANNOUNCE: WebWorks ePublishing Webinars: 
              The Fast Track to Advanced Skills
  * ANNOUNCE: Shorten Your Writing Time by Learning the 
              Information Mapping Method


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TRAINING: Content Management JumpStart ? January 18-19, 2005

The Rockley Group Content Management JumpStart
January 18-19, 2005
Research Triangle Park, NC

The Content Management JumpStart introduces the concepts, strategies,
guidelines, processes, and technological options required for a successful
content management implementation. This workshop helps content managers
and authors understand how to meet the increasing demands of creating,
managing, and distributing content through a content management strategy.
It covers the value of content management, how to analyze your content
lifecycle, how to calculate return on investment and more. It introduces
you to the information architecture of content management, and provides
guidelines for selecting tools and technologies. It also covers the
changing roles and processes that content management brings about, and
provides strategies for managing that change.

Content Management Jumpstart is part of The Rockley Group Content
Management Workshop Series, a professional training program designed to
provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the concepts and
techniques required to develop and implement effective content management.
Each workshop runs for two days. Take all four workshops and receive a
certificate in content management.

The series includes:

Content Management Jumpstart
Information Architecture for Content Management
Content Modeling and Structured Writing
Content Management Implementation Strategies

Learn more: http://www.rockley.com/workshops.htm

The Rockley Group Inc.
445 Apple Creek Blvd., Suite 120
Markham, ON L3R 9X7 
Phone: 905-415-1885
Fax: 905-415-3413 
moreinfo -at- rockley -dot- com
www.rockley.com 


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STORY: SnagIt Outputs

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"What's the matter, Lee?" Dan the technical writer asked his coworker.

"Oh, nothing - I'm just trying to think of where to take my girlfriend for
her birthday.  There are just so many choices!" he said.

"I know what you mean," Dan said sympathetically.  "I get the same feeling
when I try to pick an output when using SnagIt - the award-winning screen
capture software."

"Come again?" Lee said, sure he'd misheard him.

"SnagIt!" Dan said. "After I use SnagIt to capture, I can send it directly
to the printer, Instant Messenger, the Web, an e-mail message ... not to
mention to the Clipboard, SnagIt Studio, SnagIt Catalog, and even third
party programs like Adobe Photoshop."

"That IS a lot of output choices," Lee remarked.

"Yep," Dan said. "SnagIt fits all of my technical writing needs."

Lee turned to his computer and fired up SnagIt.  "Thanks, Dan - I've got a
great idea now.  I think tonight my girlfriend and I will stay home - I'm
going to introduce her to SnagIt!"

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Get SnagIt today for only $39.95, or two for $60!
Log onto:
http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/technicalwriters.asp?DCMP=BAC-Techwrl



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11/30/04-12/06/04
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TRAINING: FrameMaker, XML, and Indexing with Bright Path Solutions

Are you planning to attend a training class in 2005?  If you are planning
to attend a FrameMaker, XML, or indexing class early in the year, now is
the time to register for one of Bright Path Solutions public classes!

Submit your public class registration and payment to us BEFORE DECEMBER
17, 2004 and take advantage of one of these holiday offers:
>
- take a 20% discount on the class
- register a colleague to attend with you at half price

The classes to which this offer applies are:

- January 13-14 -  "XML and FrameMaker"
- January 24-25 -  "Mastering WebWorks Publisher 2003 for FrameMaker"
- January 26-27 -  "Creating Usable Indexes: A Systematic Approach"
- February 7-9 -   "XML for Single Sourcing" (with MULBERRY TECHNOLOGIES)
- February 21-22 - "Structured FrameMaker Authoring"
- February 21-25 - FrameMaker "Structured Document Publishing Boot Camp"

We'll help you start your year right by acquiring some of the skills that
you need. With the discount provided, we'll help your corporation to save
money on the training.  To find out more about these classes, visit
http://www.travelthepath.com.

These offers apply only to our public courses.  If you are interested in
onsite, private training for your team in January or February, contact us
directly for a written estimate -- including a similar holiday offer.

If you have any questions or need a registration form, feel free to call
or email.

Happy holidays!

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Kay Ethier
Bright Path Solutions
PHONE: 1.919.244.8559
mailto:kethier -at- travelthepath -dot- com
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12/03/04-12/09/04
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ANNOUNCE: Client Usability Testing Opportunity at CU Denver

Starting January 15, 2005, the M.S. in Technical Communication Program at
the University of Colorado at Denver offers a semester-length course in
Usability Testing (graduate level). We invite public and private sector
organizations to participate, by providing documents, software, or other
technology for which they would like usability-testing or
comprehensibility tests performed in our usability testing lab, or at
client sites. Students in the course design and execute usability testing
under close faculty supervision. We offer this service in exchange for a
monetary contribution to our program?s technology and scholarship
fund-usually client contributions are $1000-$1500, far below industry
usability testing rates. We test the following: web sites; software
documentation and interfaces; tutorials & instructions; all kinds of
technical documentation. If you think you may be interested, please
contact: Professor James F. Stratman, University of Colorado at Denver,
at: jstratma -at- carbon -dot- cudenver -dot- edu
Phone:(303)556-2884

11/29/04-12/12/04	
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ANNOUNCE: WebWorks ePublishing Webinars: 
          The Fast Track to Advanced Skills

WebWorks Services has made accelerating your learning curve easy
and convenient with live 90-minute online training sessions. Here
are our upcoming Webinar topics for November:

     * Getting Started with WebWorks Publisher Professional
          November 8, 9:30 a.m. PST (12:30 p.m. EST)
     * Delivering Localized Content with WebWorks Publisher
          November 10, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT)
     * Delivering 508-Compliant Content with WebWorks Publisher
          November 16, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT)
     * WebWorks Template Design and Maintenance
          November 18, 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST)
     * WebWorks Publisher Functions: Advancing Beyond the Basics
          November 30, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT)

These interactive classes are conducted via WebEx, so you can get
the most out of your investment in WebWorks Publisher -- without
leaving your desk. To sign up or for more information, visit us
at www.webworks.com/techwr-l/webinars or call WebWorks Services at
512-719-3399 ext.503.

11/02/04-12/30/05
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ANNOUNCE: Shorten Your Writing Time by Learning the 
          Information Mapping Method

Learn Information Mapping's method today and:

* Start writing more easily
* Reduce your writing time
* Get better results from your documentation
* Decrease your document revision time, and
* Increase your productivity.

You can learn the leading method for developing high-quality structured
content and documentation by attending one of Information Mapping's
seminars.  Go to
http://www.techwr-l.com/ct.php?link=http://www.infomap.com/lc/learning_programs/lc_schedule.htm







for more information, or call us at 800-INFOMAP.

One technical writing department using the Information Mapping method
survived a merger by convincing the new company of their value through a
usability study. This study showed how the Information Mapping method:

* Added value to the company
* Saved the company money
* Saved readers' time, and
* Reduced the errors encountered by readers.

Being able to offer this proof ultimately saved their jobs.  To read the
complete story, visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/ct.php?link=http://www.infomap.com/im_aboutus/news/insider/fall006305_5.htm







10/30/04-12/05/04
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