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  * TRAINING: Frame, SGML & WebWorks Publisher (NEW)
  * JOBS: Technical writers, Fairfax, VA & Sunnyvale, CA (NEW)
  * ANNOUNCE: Publications Management Clinic 
  * LUNCH and LEARN:  "PRODUCING ONLINE HELP" 
  * ANNOUNCE: Adobe News and Certified Training for 2001 
  * ANNOUNCE: Welcome New TECHWR-L Sponsor, Online-Learning.com 
  * ANNOUNCE: Test Website/Document/Product with CU-Denver Students 
  * ANNOUNCE: Articles abound, holidays notwithstanding 
  * ANNOUNCE: Upcoming INDEXING SKILLS WORKSHOPS 
  * ANNOUNCE: SnagIt & Camtasia to capture, edit, present 

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TRAINING: Frame, SGML & WebWorks Publisher

At the Adobe-certified Ace Communications Training & Learning Center in 
Beaverton, OR:

Beginning/Intermediate and Advanced Adobe FrameMaker 6.0
February 5-9. Learn the ins and outs of this powerful electronic
publishing tool in our Adobe-certified course.

Mastering Quadralay WebWorks Publisher - February 19-20.  Learn to
successfully generate Portable HTML, Dynamic HTML and WebWorks Help using
FrameMaker documents.

Authoring Structured Documents with Adobe FrameMaker + SGML - March 19-21.
Explore document structure, techniques for editing, validating structured
documents, and more. Students should know FrameMaker and SGML.

Go to  www.ace1training.com, or contact Kymm Nelsen at  
503-626-1997 Ext. 111 for more information on our courses. (10% discount
for STC members and students.)

1/18/01-1/25/01
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JOBS: Technical writers, mid-to-senior, Fairfax, VA & Sunnyvale, CA

webMethods is looking for mid- to senior-level technical writers.
Positions
are available in Fairfax, VA and Sunnyvale, CA.

webMethods places an extraordinary emphasis on creating useful and usable
technical documentation and online help. We provide an extremely
supportive
and rewarding environment for technical writers. This is the place where
you'll finally have a chance to do world-class work...and everyone will
notice.

We are looking for writers:

  o Experienced in writing for a technical audience.
  o Who dive deeply into software and love to tell others about it.
  o Who always wanted to arrive early enough to help create the right
    learning products, done the right way.

We write about how to use webMethods' phenomenal business integration
products. Typical content is about software development concepts/tasks and
Internet technologies. It's challenging, it's cool, and it will make you a
special writer. If you think you'd be great at this, we want to hear from
you.

www.webmethods.com

Apply to:     kryan -at- webmethods -dot- com

1/18/01-1/25/01
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ANNOUNCE: Publications Management Clinic

PUBLICATIONS MANAGEMENT CLINIC presented by SOLUTIONS, Inc
February 12-16, 2001 in New Orleans, LA
Featuring the Single-Sourcing Tools Face-Off on Wednesday, Feb.14
www.SolutionsEvents.com or 800-448-4230

Go beyond traditional publications management and learn the technical 
trends, people skills, processes, and strategies you need to chart 
the path for your department, your team, and your career in today's 
economy.

The clinic includes the SINGLE-SOURCING TOOLS FACE-OFF. In just one 
day, you can see and compare the complete range of products currently 
available. From small-scale Word-to-XML conversions to enterprise-wide 
technology, we?ve brought together the tools and solutions you need. 
There?s no better way to find out what?s available and what meets your 
requirements.

Choose from 6 FULL-DAY AND 12 HALF-DAY SEMINARS in 3 tracks to design 
the program that's right for you. Hands-on classes, small-group
instruction, and lots of opportunities to network, network, network.

* LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND STRATEGIES: KM, usability, staffing, metrics, 
business cases, and more.

* PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Planning, scheduling, budgeting, and tracking plus 
HANDS-ON Microsoft Project.

* SINGLE-SOURCING: From defining your requirements to implementing your 
strategy plus HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE creating information models and using
XML.

1/17/01-1/24/01
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LUNCH and LEARN:  "PRODUCING ONLINE HELP"

Thursday, February 15, 2001
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina USA
Registration Fee $49/person (if reg by January 15; $59 after)
10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (luncheon included)

A joint production of Advacon and Bright Path Solutions!

Expert speakers present online help systems and discuss the tools and
processes involved. The presentations provide participants with
overviews of online help creation tools, descriptions of the creation
processes, and time-cost data on the case studies. Presentation
content is designed to educate managers (budget/deadline issues) and
end users (software capabilities).

CASE STUDY 1 - Producing HTML Help from User Guides via RoboHELP

CASE STUDY 2 - Producing HTML Help and WebWorks Help from Training
Manuals via WebWorks Publisher Professional

To register, contact Nancy Mallett at 919.547.0213. Details are posted
at http://www.travelthepath.com/.

A joint production of:

Advacon - http://www.advacon.com
Information Design, Development, and Delivery

Bright Path Solutions - http://www.travelthepath.com
Technical Training, Consulting Services, and Software+Support

1/12/01-1/19/01
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ANNOUNCE: Adobe News and Certified Training for 2001

Happy New Year! 

We here at HighSoft, Inc./KnowHowPro Services are very excited about all
the upcoming events, seminars, and training offerings we have for 2001.
Many of you have a Volume Registration Plan already in place, and simply
need to contact your company's training manager for details on attending
any of our Certified Training courses.  If you'd like more information on
your company's agreements, please contact me and I'll be happy to tell you
the appropriate contact for registration.

Below are a few of the upcoming events, classes, and eZine articles you
can expect in 2001;

*WinWriters Conference March 5-7, 2001 in Santa Clara, CA. 
 http://www.winwriters.com/ohc/ 

*New FrameMaker-to-PDF 2-day, intensive course offering. 
 http://www.highsoft.com/FrametoPDF.html 

*January eZine
http://www.highsoftstore.com/cgi-sz/webcwrap/szw/HighSoft_s_Ezine_.html
**Future Articles to Include: 
-Product Comparisons (InDesign/Quark in March) 
-Effective strategies for obtaining responsive customer service/tech 
support. 
-Adobe News Behind the Scenes (Acrobat v5.0....in it's 3rd Beta of 6?) 
-Related Technologies (XML/WebWorks, CGI/Acrobat, Java/GoLive, etc.) 
-Industry News - where is technical publications headed, what tools are 
being developed? 
-New Uses for Products You Already Own (did you know you can use GoLive
for dynamic e-mail, or Photoshop to make T-shirts?)

*New VRP programs save Large Companies with Certified Training needs time,
money, and ease the registration process. Find out if your company is
already enrolled!!


Reuben Patterson 
HighSoft Account Manager 
1-888-795-6066  x 209 
fax: (303) 741-8640 
reuben -at- highsoft -dot- com 
Insider's Edge Ezine 
Insider News Exclusively for HighSoft Customers! 

Check us out on the WWW: http://www.highsoft.com 

Training Doesn't Cost,... It Pays! 
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HighSoft Professional Services. 
We offer Adobe & Quadralay Training, Consulting Services, 
Product Sales, & Support Services  - Contact us today! 
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1/10/01-1/17/01
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ANNOUNCE: Welcome New TECHWR-L Sponsor, Online-Learning.com

Welcome and thanks to Online-Learning.com
(http://www.online-learning.com/) as a new Gold-level TECHWR-L
sponsor. Online-Learning.com provides instructor-led online
courses for technical communicators, covering
subjects such as technical writing, XML, XSL,
editing, usability, and other related fields of study.

Online-Learning.com joins Weisner Associates (http://www.weisner.com/) 
as a Gold-level sponsor of the TECHWR-L community. Sponsorship
support is in part what enables the TECHWR-L community
to exist, as well as allows us to continue publishing
original articles and provide a variety of free resources
to the TECHWR-L community. For more information about 
sponsoring TECHWR-L, see 
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/sponsorships.html

Thanks--and welcome--to Online-Learning.com as a key sponsor
of the TECHWR-L community. 

--Deborah and Eric

1/9/01-1/16/01
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ANNOUNCE: Test Your Website/Document/Product with CU-Denver Students

Dear TECHWHIRLERS:

In late January, 2001, the M.S. in Technical Communication
Program at the University of Colorado at Denver will again offer
a semester-length course in Usability Testing (at the graduate
level). If you have a website or document you wish to have tested by 
our students, we invite both public and private sector organizations to
participate.
We invite such organizations to provide actual documents, websites,
electronic media, software, and/or other technology for which they would 
like user-testing and related comprehensibility evaluations to be
performed
in our labs.  

Further details of this program may be found by going to
http://comm.cudenver.edu/~sapief/usability/invite.cgi or by 
contacting Filipp Sapienza, Assitant Professor, Technical Communication
Program, University of Colorado at Denver, Plaza Building, Suite 102, 
Room P, Campus Box 176, Denver, Colorado 80217 (Phone: 303-556-2609)
(Email: fasapien -at- ouray -dot- cudenver -dot- edu).

1/9/01-1/16/01
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ANNOUNCE: Articles abound, holidays notwithstanding

While you were enjoying the holiday season, the 
TECHWR-L elves were busy publishing new articles 
on the site. Check out:

 - The Needs of the Many at
   http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/usersadvocate_needsofmany.html
 - Building Bridges Between Marketing and Technical 
   Publications Teams at 
   http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/techvsmarketing.html
 - Advantages and Disadvantages of W2 and 1099 Status; 
   Protecting Yourself as a Freelancer at
   http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/w2or1099.html
 - Understanding Business Communication Copyright Laws at
   http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/lawyer_copyrightletters.html
 - Good Times; Bad Times at
   http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/usersadvocate_virus.html
 - Back to Basics: Developing an Article from the Ground Up at
   http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/developingarticles.html
 - The Inspection Method: An Approach to Planning and Managing a
   Successful Team Document Review at
   http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/inspectionmethod.html

1/7/01-1/14/01
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ANNOUNCE: Upcoming INDEXING SKILLS WORKSHOPS 
        FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATORS
        presented by Lori Lathrop

The one-day workshop is for writers and editors who need 
to create usable indexes for either printed or online documents.
Writers will learn to apply several productivity tips and
techniques in indexing technical documentation.

DATES AND LOCATIONS:

	January 19 - Tampa, FL
	February 16 - San Diego, CA
	February 23 - San Jose, CA
	March 30 - Greenville, SC
	April 6 - Greensboro, NC
	April 20 - Denver, CO
	May 25, Newark, NJ

To request a brochure for any of these workshops, contact 
LoriLathrop -at- compuserve -dot- com (http://idt.net/~lathro19) 
or call 704-531-0021.

"An index is as important to your documentation as your 
documentation is to the product." (Lori Lathrop)

Lori Lathrop is a Past President of the American Society
of Indexers (ASI) and a Senior Member of the Society for
Technical Communication (STC).  The second edition of her
book, An Indexers Guide to the Internet, was published by 
Information Today Inc. in 1999, and she is currently writing
Indexing Skills for Technical Communicators, which is based
on the workshops she delivers to corporate clients throughout
North America.

12/16/00-1/23/00
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ANNOUNCE: SnagIt & Camtasia to capture, edit, present

TechSmith's SnagIt and Camtasia software give you the power to 
capture and edit anything you see on your PC screen, plus your 
narration, and present it to anyone, anywhere! You won't find better 
tools for creating effective training, tutorials, demos and more in 
industry standard AVI and streaming media formats. 

Visit our web site to learn more and download FREE trial versions 
of SnagIt and Camtasia.  http://www.techsmith.com/twr

1/1/01-3/31/01
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