TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
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:Thu, 8 Mar 2007 02:05:05 -0700 (MST)
Posted on
Thursday, March 08, 2007
_______________________________________________________
TECHWR-L Premium Ads
You received this message because you're a subscriber to TECHWR-L.
This ad posting is sent daily directly to all list members to help
underwrite the costs of the list (just as ads in a newspaper,
magazine, or journal underwrite the costs of those publications).
In this posting, look for the following ...
NEW TODAY:
and at the end you'll find the concluding administrivia with
information about these ads and how to place your own.
INFO: Information Mapping, Inc., a TECHWR-L Annual Sponsor
The powerful, research-based Information Mapping method allows techni
cal writers to write
* clear, concise technical communications, policies and procedures,
documentation, and training manuals, and
* structured content to be single sourced and tagged using XML, or
other industry standard, and stored in a content management
system.
Developed by Information Mapping, Inc. 40 years ago and used by organ
izations worldwide, the Information Mapping method provides the follo
wing results:
* an 83% decrease in first draft development time
* a 75% decrease in document revision time
* a 20%-50% decrease in documentation costs, and
* a 38% increase in documentation use.
See our schedule for business and technical communications
workshops that fit your needs and time restraints.
Check our new DITA content workshop.
Enroll today! Contact Information Mapping, Inc. to gain the skills
and tools you need to develop clear, effective communication. Call
800-INFOMAP (1-800-463-6627) ext. 3233 or send an e-mail to
inquiry -at- infomap -dot- com -dot- IMI can be found on the Web at www.infomap.com.
Information Mapping, Inc. welcomes the opportunity to support
technical writers through TECHWR-L.
##################################################################
SURVEY: Survey: User Assistance Salary Survey Results Available
The results of the 2007 WritersUA Salary Survey are now available.
Thank you to all of the user assistance professionals who contributed
EVENT: Final Registration for Long Beach Conference
Just three weeks remain until the 15th Annual WritersUA Conference
for Software User Assistance, March 25-28, at the Hyatt Regency in
Long Beach, CA. Join with over 400 user assistance professionals,
forty-five speakers, and over sixty cutting-edge sessions. http://www.winwriters.com/ohc07/index.html
REVIEW: Review: What's New in RoboHelp 6?
A new version of RoboHelp has been just been released. Rob Houser
offers a detailed evaluation of the long-awaited release from
Adobe. http://www.winwriters.com/articles/robohelp_6/index.html
Happy 14th birthday, TECHWR-L! To celebrate, we've launched the
new TECHWR-L Web site, which thrusts us into the 21st Century
(finally!). Behind the new site is Drupal, a content management
system that both updates the look and feel of the TECHWR-L site
and provides a more automated and central system for providing
content.
Take a look around the site! You'll find the following new
features:
* My TECHWR-L allows you to log into the site, mange your
TECHWR-L list subscription, maintain a blog, add blurbs or pointers
to relevant resources on the Web, submit polls, submit job/want
ads, customize your TECHWR-L experience, and more.
* News feeds, using RSS (Really Simple Syndication), pull
timely content from tech writing-related sites. The TECHWR-L site
is also now an RSS source.
* The latest site additions are available right on the home
page. Pointers to new articles, blog posts, current list discussions,
upcoming calendar events, stories, announcements, and more
automatically publish on the home page so you always see what's
new.
While you will find that some of the articles have been brought
over from the previous site, the vast majority will be evaluated,
updated (as needed), and republished in the coming weeks.
TECHWR-L continues to be a 100% sponsor- and advertiser-supported
resource, helping make TECHWR-L free and available to its users.
##################################################################
WebSeminar: Converting Legacy Documents to FrameMaker.
Are you a FrameMaker user who inherited legacy files in MS
Word format from another department or are you a MS Word
user who is contemplating an upgrade to FrameMaker?
If you said yes - then this course is definitely right for
you. Join us for a live WebSeminar on Converting Legacy
Documents to FrameMaker.
WebSeminar: Converting Legacy Documents to FrameMaker
Date: Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Time: 11:00 am 1:00 pm PDT
Where: Your desktop
Register at: http://www.translate.com
Cost: $149.00 (enter promo code TECHWR and
receive $50 off your registration)
This two hour online course covers the fundamentals of
preparing Microsoft Word documents for conversion and best
practices for correcting the imported content and formatting
in FrameMaker, including:
Quickly locating styles that need retagging after
conversion
Using advanced search features during reformatting
Efficient tools for correcting converted tables
Converting embedded bitmapped graphics to
externally referenced files (reducing document size)
Capturing vector graphics created with Microsoft Word
drawing tools and converting them to external graphics with
editable vectors and editable text
Click the following link to view the full course outline: http://www.translate.com/services/
ct_course_prep_legacy_files_for_conversion_to_framemaker.
html
Course attendees receive a free FrameMaker plug-in that
automatically converts the first row of each table to a
header row, a Best Practices document on converting legacy
files, training materials, and a recording of the training
session. Because the course assumes some knowledge of
FrameMaker, ENLASO will hold a complimentary one-hour
overview of FrameMaker online the day before the course, for
attendees who need more background on FrameMaker.
Attendees will also be invited to submit a short problem
Microsoft Word document to the instructor before the
WebSeminar, so actual real-world examples can be used
during the online training.
For additional information, contact:
Chris Raulf, ENLASO Corporation, at
(303) 516-0857 x103
or by e-mail at craulf -at- translate -dot- com
##################################################################
CONFERENCE: DITA Documentation and Training, Vancouver
Interested in DITA? Plan to attend the Documentation and
Training Conference in Vancouver this April 18-21, 2007. We've
got the following DITA-centric presentations and workshops lined
up for you (and much more!)
DOCUMENTATION & TRAINING: THE USER EXPERIENCE
APR 18-21, 2007 ~ Vancouver BC
Learn more: http://www.doctrain.com
See you in Vancouver!
##################################################################
Call for Speakers: LavaCon 2007
LavaCon and the Greater New Orleans chapter
of the Project Management Institute will be
co-hosting a professional development
summit October 28-30, 2007 in
New Orleans, LA and are now accepting
speaker proposals.
Submission guidelines available on the
conference website:
www.lavacon.org
See you in New Orleans!
##################################################################
About posting ads:
Announcements on the TECHWR-L Premium Announcement posting
cost $50 to contact over 5100 TECHWR-L subscribers
directly each day for a week.
In an effort to provide a free service that allows you to post
announcements, jobs, and events, however, we have established other
services:
The TECHWR-L Calendar provides a free resource for you
to post announcements, activities, and events: http://www.techwr-l.com/event
The TECHWR-L Daily Summary Mailing, a separate mailing list
that summarizes new content posted to Employment Central and
the Calendar, can further help get your
message out to interested people: http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/daily-announce-info.html
These resources are available at no cost to anyone, posters
or seekers, TECHWR-L subscribers or not. We encourage you to
regularly use these free services.
For jobs, announcements, and events that you specifically
want to be mailed directly to all 5100+ TECHWR-L subscribers
in the TECHWR-L Premium Daily Announcement, please contact us
(admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com) or submit your paid ad at http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/postad.html.
