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Subject:TECHWR-L Premium Jobs, Events, and Announcements From:TECHWR-L Listowner <admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com> To:archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 4 Mar 2009 02:05:11 -0700 (MST)
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TRAINING: Technical Communication Certificate at VIU
SOFTWARE: Adobe's Set of Technical Communication Products
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Tools Survey Results
Seattle Conference Approaches
First Look Reviews of RoboHelp 8 and Captivate 4
Interviews with Scott McCloud and Mary Jo Foley
Article: No Fuss Accessibility
Australasian and European Conferences Announced
News from Doc-to-Help, MadCap, CherryLeaf, and WebWorks
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Results Available: Tools Survey
Check out the results of the WritersUA Tools Survey. The survey
is designed to provide our community with a guide to the relative
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Article: RoboHelp
Matthew Ellison offers a first look at the latest release of
RoboHelp, version 8. The article describes the new features
and examines how well they fulfill their goals and improve
Help authoring. http://www.writersua.com/articles/robohelp_8/index.html
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Seattle Conference in Just Four Weeks
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Exhibitors include: MadCap, Volt, Just Systems, ITR,
HelpServer, Doc-to-Help, Adobe, WindJack Solutions,
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Studio. http://www.writersua.com/ohc/index.html
Sponsors include: HAT-Matrix.com, WebWorks, EC Software,
OASIS, Axure, Writing Assistance, ExtremeEase, and Scriptorium.
70 sessions, 50 speakers, 7 interest areas
Peer Showcase: fifteen innovative projects on display
LaunchPad and Pro Booster certificate programs
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Article: What's New in Captivate 4?
Following the very successful and highly-regarded Captivate 3,
Captivate 4 is yet another strong release from Adobe. In this
review, Scott DeLoach describes the new features of Captivate 4. http://www.writersua.com/articles/captivate/index.html
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Interviews with Scott McCloud and Mary Jo Foley
Joe Welinske, President of WritersUA, interviewed
journalist/blogger Mary Jo Foley about her work covering
Microsoft and the IT industry. http://www.writersua.com/articles/news/foley_interview.htm
Joe also interviewed author and illustrator Scott McCloud
about his work with the Google Chrome Comic and visual communication. http://www.writersua.com/articles/news/mccloud_interview.htm
Mary Jo and Scott will be a keynote speakers at the 2009
Conference for Software User Assistance.
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Article - No Fuss Accessibility
This article, by Anthony DaSilva, describes how you can quickly
and easily create documents with enhanced accessibility options
for vision-impaired users using Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat. http://www.writersua.com/articles/accessibility/index.html
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Australasian and European Conferences Announced
The Australasian Online Documentation and Content Conference
takes place 20th-22nd May in Melbourne, Australia. http://www.aodc.com.au/
The UA Europe Conference takes place 17th-18th September in
Cardiff, Wales. http://www.uaconference.eu/
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Vendor News
Doc-To-Help Day Registration is Open, MadCap Mimic 3 and Capture 4,
MadCap Lingo 2, WebWorks Announces New Renewable License Program,
CherryLeaf Benchmarking Survey. http://www.writersua.com/
About WritersUA
WritersUA specializes in providing quality training and publications
for the community of user assistance professionals. The world of user
assistance comprises a variety of techniques and technologies to make
working with software a better experience. This includes online Help,
wizards, web sites, printed documentation, and improvements to the
application user interface. Our customers represent a diverse group
of technical writers, software developers, contractors, and consultant
s.
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TRAINING: Technical Communication Certificate at VIU
On September 1, 2008, Vancouver Island University officially came into
being. The Ministry of Education for the province of British Columbia
designated the former Malaspina University-College as a regional
university with the new name 'Vancouver Island University'.
Running out of 4 campuses spread around the region, Vancouver Island
University has been in existence (as 'Malaspina') since 1969 and
continues to serve its widely dispersed student body with a breadth of
both trade and academic programs.
Vancouver Island University (VIU) has a highly-respected online
development team and is active in online education in both the credit
and non-credit areas, drawing students from around the region and arou
nd
the world.
The Technical Communication Certificate program at VIU has been in
existence since 2004. Its focus has always been on training working
professionals to help them upgrade their skill set in order to advance
and make lateral career moves within their organizations. With a focus
on software training, VIU has recently expanded its program electives
to
keep up with the changing demand of the industry.
SOFTWARE: Adobe's Set of Technical Communication Products
Adobe® Technical Communication Suite 1.3 software a
complete solution for authoring, managing, and publishing
interactive instructional information from technical
documents and books to online help systems, knowledgebases,
interactive training, and eLearning content in multiple
formats and languages. Now with new Adobe Acrobat® 9
Pro Extended.
With the Technical Communication Suite, you can enjoy
integration and enhancements you wont get if you purchase
the individual applications separately. Link FrameMaker
source files to RoboHelp projects, and easily update RoboHelp
topics when linked source files have been modified. Also take
advantage of improved integration with Adobe Captivate and
RoboScreen Capture in FrameMaker.
Adobe FrameMaker 8 (Enhanced suite version) is an essential
upgrade for users who want to author and publish technical
documentation in multiple languages. Author content for
global audiences with new Unicode support. Use a prebuilt
DITA application to author, publish, and distribute
topic-oriented information in XML And incorporate 3D models,
animations, and Adobe Captivate simulations into online
documentation.
Adobe RoboHelp 7 (Enhanced suite version) is packed with
new features to help you to build, manage, and publish
content for help systems and standalone knowledgebases.
>From Unicode support and a new customizable user interface
to enhanced Adobe Captivate and FrameMaker support, you
can quickly single source help content in a range of popular
output formats for a variety of audiences or languages.
Adobe Captivate 3 helps you create engaging simulations,
scenario-based training, and quizzes without programming
knowledge or multimedia skills. Save time and generate
robust software simulations with multiple learning modes
in a single recording session. And simplify the localization
process with support for XML file import and export.
Acrobat 9 Pro Extended enables CAD, CAM, and CAE
application users to convert virtually any CAD file to a highly
compressed, more secure Adobe PDF file for CAD data
interoperability, collaboration, and visualization. Use the
new Adobe 3D Reviewer to collaborate more effectively on
3D designs with support for more formats. Export your work
to a variety of neutral formats, 2D vector/raster files, and
publish to PDF.
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