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TRAINING: Toronto - e-Content Institute/Rockley Group
Content Management Workshops
The Rockley Group Content Management Workshop Series Comes To Toronto
Produced in partnership with The Rockley Group, this series of four
workshops is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of
the concepts and techniques required to develop and implement effective
content management. Take all four workshops and receive a certificate in
content management.
Toronto Content Management Workshop Series Dates
Content Management Jumpstart
April 28, 2005, National Club, Toronto
Sponsored by Vasont Systems
Information Architecture for Content Management
June 7-8, 2005, National Club, Toronto
Sponsored by Arbortext
Content Modeling and Structured Writing
September 7 -8, 2005, National Club, Toronto
Sponsored by Arbortext
Implementation Strategies for Content Management
November 15-16, 2005, National Club, Toronto
Sponsored by Adlib eDocument Solutions
"The Economics of Technical Documentation" is the first in a series of
Professional Guides for Technical Communicators.
ISBN 1-873407-03-3
Now available from UK publisher Marlow Durndell.
The guide covers costing, estimating budget control for documentation
projects. Chapters also discuss cost effectiveness and outsourcing versus
in-house.
For more information about this professional guide visit
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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 develop an ROI. It introduces you to the information
architecture of content management, and provides guidelines for selecting
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content management brings about, and provides strategies for managing that
change.
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