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  * CONFERENCE: LavaCon 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii 
                now open for registration (NEW)
  * TRAINING: Live Online Acrobat Training (CORRECTED)
  * ANNOUNCE: Welcome EC Software as a new TECHWR-L Sponsor!
  * TRAINING: Vasont Systems Presents "Metadata - Driving Your Output"
              Webinar with Guest Speaker Dr. Joann Hackos
  * SITE UPDATE: Single-Source Content Management 
                 Can Take You Further
  * ANNOUNCE: New! WebWorks OnTime: On-Demand, 
              Custom ePublishing Service

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CONFERENCE: LavaCon 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii now open for registration

Want to learn more about how to estimate and manage tech comm projects?  
Attend LavaCon: The Third Annual Conference on Tech Comm Management

Dates: September 25-28, 2005

Location: Honolulu, HI

See www.lavacon.org for preliminary program and schedule information.

Items to note:

New in 2005:  In response to feedback from last year's attendees, we are
changing the format of this year's program so you will attend breakout
sessions each morning and half day hands-on workshops each afternoon. That
will enable you to practice in the afternoon what they learned in the
morning.  Also new: the hands-on workshops are now included in the
conference price!  See the Programs page on the conference website for
more
info.

Conference Hotel: I am happy to announce that LavaCon 2005 will be held at
the Ilikai Hotel (a Renaissance by Marriott property), the same hotel
which hosted the STC Region 7/Region 8 Pan-Pacific Conference in 2000.  I
am even happier to announce that the conference prices for rooms at this
Waikiki Beach hotel start at only $159 / night!   See the website Hotel &
Air page for more info and upgrade specials.

Registration:  Early registrations discounts are available--see the
Programs page for registration information and discount deadlines.

Additional information will be posted to the conference website regularly,
but feel free to call or email me with comments, questions, etc.

See you in Waikiki!

Jack Molisani
Executive Director
LavaCon 2005

LavaCon: The Third Annual Conference on Tech Comm Management
September 25-28, 2005                                        
Honolulu, Hawaii
www.lavacon.org
888-378-2333

03/29/05-04/04/05
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TRAINING: Live Online Acrobat Training
          
Introducing PDF Webinars from Carl Young Training Associates. 

Spend an hour live online with Acrobat experts like PDF Conference
producer Carl Young and Acrobat/InDesign expert Claudia McCue and work
faster and easier. You'll learn techniques that will save you time, money
and energy... all from the comfort of your own computer. www.pdftrain.com

Each 60-minute course cuts to the meat of the topic, with tips and
techniques to help jump-start your next project.

Choose from classes like:

 -Creating Acrobat Forms
 -Creating Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer
 -Moving to Acrobat 7
 -Creating Interactive PDFs using Acrobat 7
 -Mastering Acrobat's Print-specific Features
 -Creating 508 Compatible PDFs

Live instruction. Live Q&A with the trainer. A training manual and sample
files to practice what you learned. All you need is a high-speed internet
connection and a phone.

Cost is $129 per webinar. Sign up now: www.pdftrain.com

PDF Webinars from Carl Young Training Associates

www.pdftrain.com

1-800-758-6512

info -at- pdftrain -dot- com

03/28/05-04/11/05
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ANNOUNCE: Welcome EC Software as a new TECHWR-L Sponsor!

Join us in welcoming EC Software as a new TECHWR-L Bronze-level Annual
Sponsor: http://www.helpandmanual.com

EC Software delivers two tools for technical writers. Their flagship
product is Help & Manual, a stand-alone WYSIWYG help authoring tool. Help
& Manual creates HTML Help, Webhelp, Winhelp, Word documents, PDF files,
and print manuals. Designed to automate the publishing process, it creates
the help from the source (in the Help & Manual project database) without
requiring user interaction.

Help & Manual uses templates to customize the layout of HTML topics, print
manuals, and PDF files. It supports conditional output with export
conditions for chapters and topics. Conditional text and text variables
allow authors to replace text on the fly during the help compilation
(useful for documentation covering more than one version of the same
product). Help & Manual also includes the following tools: screen capture,
screenshot editor, a manual layout designer and reporting tools.

TNT Screen Capture complements Help & Manual. This product obtains and
customizes screen shots, leveraging many popular image effects (such as
gradual transparency and cut-out). The toolbox allows authors to add text,
icons, cursors and callouts to screen shots. Finally, TNT Screen Capture
also provides realistic 3-D effects with adjustable lighting, shadows and
reflection, using its built-in raytracer.

Welcome--and thanks to--EC Software 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, please visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/abouttechwhirl/sponsorships.html

03/27/05-04/03/05
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TRAINING: Vasont Systems Presents "Metadata - Driving Your Output" Webinar
         with Guest Speaker Dr. Joann Hackos

Free Webinar will show how to maximize metadata use as part of an overall
content management strategy

Vasont Systems, a leading provider of content management software and data
services, today announced that Dr. JoAnn Hackos will be the guest speaker
for the "Metadata - Driving Your Output" webinar on March 31, 2005 at 1:00
pm ET.  Bret Freeman from Vasont Systems will be the co-presenter.
Metadata  is the engine behind a successful venture into content
management.  Not only does it allow you to track the development of
content and manage workflow, but, more importantly, metadata drives the
development of output.  This free webinar is designed to show how to best
utilize metadata as part of an overall content management strategy.

Dr. Hackos is President of Comtech Services, a content-management and
information-design firm, which she founded in 1978.  She also directs the
Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM), and is the author of
Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery, Managing Your Documentation
Projects, Standards for Online Communication, and User and Task Analysis
for Interface Design.  For her part of the presentation, Dr. Hackos will
explain how to use scenario-based design techniques to derive
customer-focused metadata.

Bret Freeman, Sales Engineer for Vasont Systems, has more than ten years
of experience in the information management and publishing industry and
has delivered numerous presentations and training courses to various
groups in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For his part
of the presentation, Freeman will show ways that metadata can be handled
in a content management system.

To register please go to:
http://placeware.viewcentral.com/reg/vasont/0331051pm

About Vasont Systems
Headquartered in Emigsville, Pennsylvania, Vasont Systems is a provider of
content management software and data services, backed by more than 50
years of experience in the information management and publishing industry.
Its Vasont content management system enables organizations to manage and
store their multilingual content once for multi-channel delivery.  Fortune
1000 companies and organizations from industries including manufacturing,
technology, publishing, government, and healthcare use Vasont to manage
and produce multilingual technical documentation, product manuals, and
reference materials. www.vasont.com.

03/24/05-03/30/05
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SITE UPDATE: Single-Source Content Management Can Take You Further 
             by Suzanne Mescan

Do the words 'Content Management System' remind you of your first swimming
lesson in a pool where your feet couldn't touch the bottom? Fear not, for
Suzanne Mescan is your swimming instructor, and this could be the lesson
you're looking for. Dive on in and read more:

http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/sscm_overview.html

03/23/05-03/29/05
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ANNOUNCE: New! WebWorks OnTime: On-Demand, Custom ePublishing
Service

For the first time, WebWorks Services is offering Quadralay
Corporation's content conversion expertise to work directly on
your project, to produce your online content directly from your
Word documents, FrameMaker books, or XML content. No training, no
tools, no learning curve, and you can have your documents converted
to virtually any format, customized to your specifications.*

With over 11 years of content conversion experience, we are able to
put on-demand ePublishing within reach of any organization, small
or large. Our Basic Plan for Word or FrameMaker starts at just $99
for up to 1000 pages!

Add localization to your OnTime order to make the most of your
on-demand ePublishing investment. WebWorks OnTime offers expert
translation of your content into one or multiple languages.**

For more information, visit www.webworks.com/ontime or contact an
OnTime Service Representative at 512.719.3399 ext.503
*Certain terms and conditions apply. See Web site for details.
**Translations provided by Adams Globalization.

11/02/04-12/30/05
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