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          ANNOUNCE: New book on scientific editing

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   ANN: LavaCon Co-Hosts Professional Development Summit, Oct
   ANNOUNCE: MapCap Software Releases Flare version 3
   ANNOUNCE: Preparing for a successful CMS implementation
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ANNOUNCE: MapCap Software Releases Flare version 3

We are pleased to announce that MadCap Software has just 
released its newest Version of MadCap Flare- Version 3 and 
the MadCap Feedback Service. 

Highlights of whats new in Flare V3  include:

* Source Control Direct Integration
  (Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Microsoft Team Foundation 
   Server, and others with API calls)
* Automatic Server-Side Project Merging
* Faster Server-Side Search, Including Search for Non-XHTML 
   Files (e.g., PDF, Office Files)
* Enhanced CHM output (Web Toolbar)
* Enhanced Editors and Explorers
* More Single-Sourcing Features (Snippet Conditions, Table 
  Print Styles)
* Integrated Instant Messaging System
* Import Styles
* Enhanced FrameMaker Import Features
* And more

For a full list of new features and enhancements in Flare v3, 
please visit:
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/flare/features.aspx
 
To download the Flare v3 trial, please visit:  http://www.madcapsoftw
are.com/downloads/flaretrial.aspx

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ANNOUNCE: MapCap Software Releases Feedback Service

With the Feedback Service, you will have the ability to run 
end-user feedback reports and see how your readers are using 
your Web-based Help, and for the first time, desktop Help such 
as HTML Help and DotNet Help. Now you can get feedback on how 
your audience uses your Help content, maximizing the 
effectiveness of your documentation. In addition, the Service 
bring cutting edge Web 2.0 community capabilities to your documentati
on, allowing readers to add their own comments 
to existing documentation. Gain all of these new feedback 
benefits without any additional servers, hardware, or 
maintenance by having MadCap Software do the hosting for you.

The Feedback Service is offered as a hosted service in 
increments of 3, 6 and 12 months.

Features include:

* Track user searches so you know what customers are finding 
  (or what they are looking for and not finding)
* Collect feedback from online or desktop Help using DotNet 
  Help, HTML Help (.CHM), WebHelp, or WebHelp Plus
* Web 2.0 community capabilities, allowing readers to add their 
  own comments and provide feedback on your documentation
* The ability to allow readers to rank the quality of the 
  topics and content using a simple star system
* Track topics visited
* Synonyms on-the-fly (update search parameters using synonyms 
  without having to republish any content)
* Produce and print configurable and multi-color charts on  
  feedback statistics
* Export feedback statistics so you can view and edit them in 
  other programs, such as Microsoft Excel
* Publish output anywhere  to a website, on your intranet, even
  attached to an application (MadCap hosts only feedback data, 
  not your output files)
* And more
 
For more details on the hosted Feedback Service, please visit:
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/feedback

For pricing or to test drive the Feedback Service please 
contact sales at: (858) 320-0387 or 
mailto:sales -at- madcapsoftware -dot- com

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ANN: LavaCon Co-Hosts Professional Development Summit, October 2007

LavaCon is partnering with the Project Management Institute Greater 
New Orleans Chapter to co-host a Professional Development Summit in 
New Orleans, October 2730, 2007.

The fifth annual LavaCon presents proven best practices in the fields
 
of technical communication and project management, including strategi
es
for choosing technology platforms, reducing training and translation 
costs, and more.

We are offering over 60 sessions on technical communication and 
project management this year.

The preliminary program and schedule are available at: 
http://www.lavacon.org

See you in New Orleans!

LavaCon: The Conference on Advanced Tech Comm and Project Management 
October 27 - 30, 2007
New Orleans, LA
866-302-5774
www.lavacon.org

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WEBINAR: Overview of the Localization Process, Technical 
   Writing and Translation

Cost: Complimentary 
When: Thursday, July 26th @ 11.00 am PDT
Location: Your desktop

Register at:
http://www.translate.com/news/ENLASO_events.html
or
https://enlaso.webex.com/enlaso/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=665948135

Doug Pearson, an ENLASO Localization Engineer, will deliver a 
one-hour presentation that includes an overview of the 
localization process from the perspective of technical writers 
who initially author documents for localization and translation. 
A primary focus of this presentation will be to guide technical
writers to understand the tasks of the other people who
work on the localization process (project managers, engineers, 
linguists, etc.) in order to make their own work more effective, 
thus saving both time and money in the localization and 
translation process.

Topics include:

- Overview of the localization process and other job functions 
  in the process
- Best practices for authoring documents with localization and 
  translation in mind
- Use of Controlled English in authoring documents for 
  localization and translation
- Overview and examples of Translation Memory (TM) usage for 
  localization and translation

This Webinar is of particular interest to technical writers, 
publications managers, documentation specialists and anyone 
involved in the documentation localization and translation 
process.

About the presenter:
Doug Pearson has worked as a Localization Engineer for ENLASO 
for nearly a decade. He is experienced in desktop publishing 
(especially FrameMaker), programming (especially C++), XML (and 
other forms of structured/hierarchical document design), 
single-source document design for multiple-format output, and 
in anticipating the needs of production staff throughout every 
stage of the publishing and localization process. These are all 
requirements for developing holistic, all-encompassing,
custom solutions for a diverse collection of clients. Doug has 
developed dozens of plug-ins to assist both document authoring 
and localization for structured and non-structured versions of 
FrameMaker. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering 
from the Johns Hopkins University. 

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ANNOUNCE: Preparing for a successful CMS implementation

Check out the latest SiberLogic white paper - "Preparing for a 
successful CMS implementation."

Whether you are moving from unstructured to structured authoring, 
proprietary DTD to DITA, or file system to your first CMS, you 
will need to address several key factors to ensure a successful
CMS implementation and rollout. This paper shares some best 
practices that SiberSafe users have found valuable.

It's available for download at 
http://www.siberlogic.com/pickup/page.asp?id=5. 

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ANNOUNCE: New book on scientific editing

Subtleties of Scientific Style fills the gaps left by other style
guides and books on editing. Here, Matthew Stevens, an Australian
scientific editor, distils over two decades of experience, 
explaining subtle but significant errors that authors can make 
and many subtle tricks that can make a work more readable. 

Topics include:

* Achieving an editorial Gestalt
* Common errors-danglers, fillers, misapplied modifiers, 
  shortcuts
* Errors of reasoning-begging the question, teleology, size 
  comparisons
* Expression-first-person science, order of events, parallel 
  narratives
* Tricky terms-applied, based on, due to, respectively

Contents
  What is science?
  Substantive editing
  Common errors
  Errors of substance or sequence
  Errors of reasoning
  Improving expression
  Improving visual presentation
  Tricky or misused terms
  Errors in classical languages
  Appendix 1-Editing techniques
  Appendix 2-Wordy phrases
  Appendix 3-British or US spelling?
  Appendix 4-Unicode values and non-displaying characters
  Appendix 5-Character charts in logical groupings
  Bibliography

You can download a copy from http://www.zeta.org.au/~mls/subtleties.h
tml 
(US$6, A$7 shareware). Hard copies will be available soon for 
order (112 pp B5, ~200 g, US$12, A$15 + postage).

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