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  * ANNOUNCE: Welcome Malaspina University-College as a 
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  * CONFERENCE: Information Design and Management 2005 (NEW)
  * ANNOUNCE: WritersUA--Salary Survey and More
  * STORY: Act Before Dec 31!  Two SnagIt for $60!
  * WORKSHOP: "FrameMaker and XML: Advanced Techniques" 
              taught by Lynne Price
  * 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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ANNOUNCE: Welcome Malaspina University-College as a 
          new TECHWR-L Sponsor!

Join us in welcoming Malaspina University-College as a new TECHWR-L
Silver-level Annual Sponsor: http://www.pr.mala.bc.ca/tech_comm.htm

Malaspina University-College is a publicly-funded and accredited Canadian
University-College with its main campus in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island
(www.mala.ca). Malaspina U-C offers a part-time non-credit certificate
program in Technical Communication completely online. Delivered by
Technical Communication professionals, the curriculum follows the
guidelines of the Canadian Interest Committee (1997) who were formed from
STC professionals to determine just what a technical communication program
should cover in terms of training. Details of the Technical Communication
Program can be found at: www.pr.mala.bc.ca/tech_comm.htm

The online Technical Communication Certificate Program offered by
Malaspina University College, Canada includes training in technical
writing skills, current software tools (FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Dreamweaver,
Acrobat), designing documents, web design, writing manuals, and job search
for technical writers.

Welcome--and thanks to--Malaspina University-College as a new TECHWR-L
Annual Sponsor! Annual sponsors provide key support for the variety of
TECHWR-L services and features. For more information about sponsorships,
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01/03/05-01/09/05
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CONFERENCE: Information Design and Management 2005

Saul Carliner, Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at Concordia
University, is the Keynote Speaker for the annual technical communications
conference sponsored by the James River Chapter, STC.

Joing him are Kay Ethier, Bernard Aschwanden, Ann-Marie Grissino, Mary
Archer, Mel Lester, Richard T. Evans, Mark Wallis, Jennifer Raisig, Yvonne
Earnshaw, Robert Meyer, and Ellyn Hassell.

Topics presented include:

* Introduction to DITA
* e-Learning in Online Help Systems
* Developing an Element Definition Document
* Communicating Technical Ideas Persuasively
* Template Development: Best Practices
* Choosing and Using a Digital Camera
* How to Create \"Search Engine Friendly\" Web Content,
* Information Architecture & Content Reuse
* Making Procedure Manuals Meaningful-and Interactive
* Editing Indexes for Quality and Usability.


XML, FrameMaker Workshops

Kay Ethier and Bernard Aschwanden will lead workshops on January 16 on XML
& FrameMaker and Word & FrameMaker template development.

The Conference will be held in the Four Points by Sheraton hotel in
Williamsburg on January 15, 2005 from 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.


Registration

Register online at www.stc-jamesriver.org. Contact Don White at
IDMconf2005 -at- comcast -dot- net for further information.

01/02/05-01/08/05
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ANNOUNCE: WritersUA--Salary Survey and More 

In this WritersUA User Assistance Update, read about:
 * Salary Survey in Progress
 * WritersUA Visiting STC Chapters
 * An Article about Trends in Software User Assistance
 * Australasian Conference Announced

* Survey: Contribute to the WritersUA User Assistance Salary Survey
The WritersUA 2005 Salary Survey is now in progress. The results analysis
of this survey will be made publicly available. Your participation is the
key to results that help us all.

http://www.winwriters.com/surveys/salary05/index.html

* Events: WritersUA Visiting STC Chapters
Joe Welinske, President of WriterUA, will be speaking about Trends in
Software User Assistance at the following STC chapters in January:

  Phoenix - January 11th
  San Francisco - January 19th
  NorthBay - January 20th.

http://www.stc-phoenix.com/calendar.html
http://www.stc-sf.org/stc-meetings.htm
http://www.stc-northbay.org/

**Article: Trends and Opportunities in Software User Assistance
This article is designed to provide an overview of the latest trends in
software user assistance based on surveys, interviews, and observations by
the author and other experienced user assistance professionals.

http://www.winwriters.com/articles/trends/index.html

**Event: Australasian Conference Announced
The eighth annual Australasian Online Documentation and Content (AODC)
Conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from 4th to 6th May 2005.
The Web site is being regularly updated as the agenda develops.

http://www.aodc.com.au/

01/01/05-01/14/05
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STORY: Act Before Dec 31!  Two SnagIt for $60!

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Dan the technical writer's coworkers hailed him as he walked past.  "Dan -
come in here!  We're telling our new year's resolutions!"

"Great!" Dan said. "I resolve to eat better, work out more, and help
people see how SnagIt SolvesIt."

"Excuse me?" Kelly said, thinking she misheard him.

"SnagIt SolvesIt!  SnagIt is the award-winning screen capture program
that's not just for technical writers - you can save your online receipts,
send errors to the help desk, make short videos, create perfect
presentations ... it's a solution for anyone with a computer," Dan said
earnestly.

"So ... your resolution is to teach people about it?" Kelly asked,
gesturing to the rest of the group.

"Yes!" Dan said. "And it looks like I'm already well ahead of the game -
it's only December!"

He opened his bag of chips and made his way to his desk for some serious
sitting.

"Ah well," he thought, "one out of three resolutions isn't bad."

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12/21/04-12/27/04
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WORKSHOP: "FrameMaker and XML: Advanced Techniques" 
taught by Lynne Price

Title: FrameMaker and XML: Advanced Techniques
Date: February 15, 2005
Location: Research Triangle Park, NC area
Fee: $259
Instructor: Lynne A. Price

Maintaining your documents in both FrameMaker and XML lets you make the
most of both FrameMaker, with its intuitive interface for editing
structured documents and its rich capability for formatting long
documents, and XML, with its ever-growing set of tools. Bright Path
Solutions and Text Structure Consulting, Inc. are pleased to bring you a
workshop on strategies for building effective document publishing
environments in structured FrameMaker. Unlike a course that teaches
FrameMaker's native XML capabilities, this workshop focuses on practical
matters such as which features to use in particular situations.

In this workshop, you will learn:
-How to apply software development techniques to build maintainable EDDs
and read/write rules
-What import/export problems can be solved with read/write rules and
when to augment your XML applications with the Frame Developer Kit
(FDK), FrameScript, XSLT or FrameSLT
-How to write structured read/write rules
-When to define different structures in your EDD and DTD
-How to create EDD fragments that can be reused in multiple EDDs

**You are encouraged to bring your own FrameMaker XML applications and
apply the learned techniques during the seminar. You will have the
opportunity to ask questions about your application.**

About the Instructor:
Instructor Lynne A. Price is an independent consultant specializing in
applications of structured FrameMaker. Before founding Text Structure
Consulting, Inc. in 1996, Lynne was a software developer at Frame
Technology Corporation and then Adobe. She was part of the team that
added the structure capability to FrameMaker. Lynne has been active in
the SGML community since 1985 and participates in US and International
SGML standards work. Her interest in structured documentation began in
graduate school. She completed a Ph.D. in computer sciences at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978. Her dissertation was titled
"Representing Text Structure for Automatic Processing."

Registration:
SEATING IS LIMITED. You are encouraged to sign up right away to avoid
missing this unique training opportunity. Visit the Bright Path
Solutions website at
http://www.travelthepath.com/readwriterulesplus5.html for more
information and to download a registration form. Call Kay Ethier at
1.919.244.8559 if you have any questions or with to sign up a group.

12/15/04-12/21/04
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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




10/30/04-12/31/04
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