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* TRAINING: Enjoy a Special Discount on UCLA Extension Online
Technical Communication Courses This Fall (NEW)
* ANNOUNCE: Adobe's just-released FrameMaker 7.2 Showing at
The FrameMaker 2005 Chautauqua
* WORKSHOPS: Content Modeling and Structured Authoring
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TRAINING: Enjoy a Special Discount on UCLA Extension
Online Technical Communication Courses This Fall
Renew your professional skills this fall from the comfort of your home or
office. UCLA Extension's fall quarter begins September 24, and courses are
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As an STC member, you are entitled to a special $50 discount on all
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Information Design
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Introduction to Policies and Procedures Communications
Project Estimating
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ANNOUNCE: Adobe's just-released FrameMaker 7.2 Showing at
The FrameMaker 2005 Chautauqua
Adobe has just announced FrameMaker 7.2. This new release has features
beneficial to regular FrameMaker and Structured FrameMaker users! From
multiple undo to more XML support to interface enhancements, this version
is worth considering.
Come and try this version hands-on, and talk with Adobe as well as some
early users, at the upcoming FrameMaker conference: the FrameMaker 2005
Chautauqua. You'll use almost all of your senses:
- HEAR about the new features and benefits
- TALK with Adobe's FrameMaker staff and ask them your questions
- TOUCH the product hands on
- SEE a presentation of new features in 7.2
And technically you can SMELL and TASTE the wonderful food at lunch and
talk about network!
FrameMaker 2005 Chautauqua (conference)
November 7-9, 2005
Raleigh, NC USA
(North Carolina State University's McKimmon Conference Center)
2 regular presentation tracks, 1 hands-on presentation track
$695 for three full days of conference and activities, plus free tools
Contact the conference coordinator for more details:
Kay Ethier
Bright Path Solutions
1.919.244.8559
kethier -at- travelthepath -dot- com
THANK YOU to our sponsors, including Platinum Sponsor SIBERLOGIC
(http://www.siberlogic.com) and exhibitors Quadralay, Idiom Technologies
Inc., and Vasont.
PS-If you noticed there are 6 senses above, and you took the time to sort
out which was not a sense (TALK, which is not a sense, though TASTE is),
then use that TALK "non-sense" as your DISCOUNT code when you register for
the conference. You will receive a $50 discount off the $695 (or current)
registration rate. Register online at http://www.travelthepath.com/confreg.html .
Oh, and if you did have a 6th sense, you would have realized FrameMaker
7.2
was coming and registered for the conference already. :-)
WORKSHOPS: Content Modeling and Structured Authoring
Whether you are designing your own custom content structures or hoping to
implement an industry standard like DITA, you need to know how properly
model and author structured content. Getting started is easy! Register
today for one of our upcoming Content Modeling and Structured Authoring
workshops (beautiful Chicago and Vancouver are our next stops).
You'll learn what they didn't teach you in school -- including how to:
* Create content models, element models, reuse maps and metadata
* Design structured writing guidelines
* Consistently structure information products and the content they
contain
* Master the fundamental concepts of content reuse (including the types
of reuse)
* Write reusable content
* Manage change, including collaborative authoring and changing roles for
authors
Upcoming Content Modeling and Structured Writing Workshops
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October 12-13, 2005 (Chicago)
October 4-5, 2005 (Vancouver)
About The Rockley Group
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The Rockley Group is a content management consultancy with an
international reputation for developing effective content management
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and empower your staff to successfully adopt content management. We?re
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Contact us (we can help!)
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moreinfo -at- rockley -dot- com
www.rockley.com
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