Welcome Back and Thanks to Vancouver Island University, a renewing Silver Sponsor!

Vancouver Island University, a renewing Silver-level TECHWR-L Sponsor, provides an online learning environment in which you can build--or polish--your technical communication skills.

KBuffer, India, is offering Online Diploma in Technical Writing through their virtual classroom. This is a Job-oriented course and we give you 100% Job Assistance.

We also offer training and certification on individual software tools such as Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Captivate, Adobe RoboHelp, and other such tools.

For further details mail to sundaram@kbuffer.in or gms@kbufferonline.com

I have often wondered how objective interviews to select technical writers really are. This is because candidates from various backgrounds apply for a technical writing job. Besides freshers with a technical writing degree or certificate, engineers, journalists, literature students, and so on apply for a technical writing job.

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Doc-To-Help won a Code Project Members Choice Award. At a ceremony held during TechEd in Los Angeles, Jeff Hatfield, president at The Code Project (USA) recognized ComponentOne Doc-To-Help as the Members Choice winner in the Documentation and Help category.

Style guides are essential aids for writers and editors who produce publications and online help projects—but does a style guide cover everything you need? Probably not.

Many writers and editors swear by a style guide, like the Chicago Manual, or the AP Style guide, when organizing, editing and writing publications. The Microsoft style manual is very helpful in technical writing and editing. Many corporations adapt elements of these to produce their own, distinctive style guides.

Information Mapping's 2 ½-hour e-workshop, Writing Winning Proposals!, will introduce you to issues and challenges of writing proposals in today's rapid-paced business environment, a three-phase proposal writing process geared toward gaining the competitive edge, and strategies for developing proposal content that is consistent, logical, and modular.

Writing Winning Proposals! will feature short modular lessons, practice exercises to help learners apply skills and assess progress, and examples of effective proposals.

In this 2 1/2-hour instructor-led e-workshop, participants will discuss why procedures are a problem in many organizations and take the first steps toward improving the effectiveness of procedures. Making Procedures Work will feature short modular lessons, practice exercises, and a checklist for assessing procedures.

Enroll today. Call 1-800-INFOMAP (463-6627) ext. 3350 or send an e-mail to inquiry@infomap.com.

http://www.infomap.com/index.cfm/Learning/eWorkshops/Making_Procedures_Work!_e-Workshop

This 2½-hour, instructor-led e-workshop is designed to help writers and designers organize and present content effectively on the Web. By analyzing the audience and applying research-based principles, you can make Web content user-focused and easy to find.

Information Mapping’s e-Workshop, Making Web Content Work!, will teach you how to apply six tasks for planning web content; the design principles of chunking and labeling to web content; and strategies for ensuring effective site structure and navigation.