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* ANNOUNCE: Call for Speakers - LavaCon 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii
* EVENT: Free Online Event - Accelerate your
XML Document Review Process
* EVENT: Free Online Event - Reuse: A Substantial Factor in
Determining ROI for Content Management (NEW)
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* JOB: Technical Writer position in Austin TX
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ANNOUNCE: Call for Speakers - LavaCon 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii
LavaCon is a conference for technical communication managers and team
leads.
Quotes from previous attendees:
"This was a terrific conference!"
"Best conference I ever attended!"
"Great info and LOTS of real-world examples. I wish I
had attended these sessions a year ago!"
The next LavaCon will be held at the Ilikai Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii,
September 25 - 28, 2005.
Session stems: Managing Technical People and Projects
Management Tools and Technology
Managing Your Personal/Corporate Development
See http://www.lavacon.org/2005callforspeakers.htm for the complete
Call for Speakers. Deadline for submitting proposals is February 14th,
2005. (Speaker slots are limited, so get your proposals in early!)
Interested in attending LavaCon rather than speaking? See
www.lavacon.org <http://www.lavacon.org/> for information about LavaCon
2004, and mark your calendars for this September.
Questions? Email me, or call 888-378-2333.
See you in Hawaii!
Jack
LavaCon: The Conference for Technical Managers
September 25-28, 2005 Honolulu, Hawaii
www.lavacon.org <http://www.lavacon.org />
EVENT: Free Online Event - Accelerate your XML Document Review Process
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 -1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
Register today! http://blastradiusevents.webex.com
Learn how collaborative reviewing is turning XML content reviewing hell
into reviewing heaven!
It's an age-old problem. Despite your best efforts to improve efficiency
with XML, documents still get bogged down in reviews. It's a bottleneck
that everyone faces, seems impossible to unblock, and is made even more
important by today's uncompromising demands for accuracy. What can you do?
Attend this one-of-a-kind Tech Webinar with industry expert Ann Rockley
and Cisco Systems' Bruce Nevin, you'll learn more about the content
reviewing challenges facing organizations today and how industry leaders
like Cisco Systems are tackling them.
Attend this Webinar and learn how to:
1. Reduce development time and cost by removing bottlenecks from the XML
content creation process using collaborative reviewing.
2. Comply with regulations by automatically preserving an audit trail of
reviewer comments and annotations across document drafts.
3. Improve clarity and effectiveness of team communication.
** Win an iPod! **
Register and attend this free online event and get a chance to win an
iPod, a copy of "The XML Handbook", co-authored by XMetaL's Paul Prescod
and Charles Goldfarb, and a copy of "Managing Enterprise Content: A
Unified Content Strategy" by Ann Rockley, Pamela Kostur and Steve Manning.
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
EVENT: Free Online Event - Reuse: A Substantial Factor in
Determining ROI for Content Management
March 1, 2005 - 1:30pm EST
Sponsored by Data Conversion Laboratories
When developing a business case for content management there are many
factors used to determine return on investment. One of the most important
factors, content reuse, can provide an excellent return on investment and
can be used to help sell the need for content management to your
organization. Reusing content (write once, reuse content many times)
results in substantially lower costs of creation, maintenance and delivery
of content. And, if you translate your content, reuse can have an even
greater impact on lowering costs.
Join content management maven Ann Rockley to learn how content reuse can
be used to determine return on investment for content management.
Attendees will learn:
- Where reuse has an impact on return on investment
- How to identify your percentage of reuse
- How to calculate return on investment using reuse
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
The position is an IT/IS position that is involved in reverse engineering
a system that will be delivered at the end of March. Essentially, the
automotive company developed a system under a tight timeframe and did not
do the documentation that describes the application and how it was
engineered. It is like a word problem where you have the question and the
solution, but not the "work" in between.
? Reorganize and streamline the existing documentation
? Identify gaps in the documentation and schedule for coverage
? Interview analysts and developers to "fill in the blanks"
? Design reports and research methods to find information in the library
Skill set needed:
? Understanding and knowledge of business and systems process flows and
what documentation "should" be there
? RUP process and software, Rational product desired
? Word
? Visio
? Excel
Contact
Amanda Abelove, (562) 468-6678, amanda_abelove -at- toyota -dot- com
Rate DOE. Please include desired rate and resume in response.
Metreos Corporation needs a motivated and experienced writer to produce
various types of customer-facing documents, including software manuals,
customer support web content, help content, product white papers and more,
from start to finish.
Desirable traits include the ability to interview engineers to extrapolate
a big picture from disparate nuggets of information, the creativity and
motivation to identify information needed to assemble a document and to
identify and utilitize various sources in the gathering of such
information, an eye for attractive yet businesslike layout, a curiosity as
to how things work, and the ability to explain how things work in a pithy,
clear, energetic style.
This is a full-time position in Austin for a writer who will immediately
become an important part of our team. If this sounds like you, we\'d
really like to see your resume. This along with your cover letter will of
course be your showcase. Send to james at metreos dot com.
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November 16, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT)
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November 18, 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST)
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November 30, 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT)
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