Conferencing

[John Hedtke]

What an excellent idea!

I think a lot of this may depend on what the criteria were for 
selling this to mgmt.  If you sold this on educational opportunities, 
for example, then the grid should be heavy with those items.  But 
many of the things that come to mind are (this is pre-coffee, so I 
apologize for the gross incompleteness of this list):

* Educational opportunities (break this down into 
beginning/intermediate/advanced, by tool, by skill set, by 
technology/methodology)
* Tools--FM, Acrobat, Word, Lingo, etc.
* Skill set--applications of techniques, e.g., "A New Way of 
Processing Edits," "Indexing for Single-Sourcing," "Help, I've Never 
Localized Before," and so on.
* Technology--conceptual information, e.g., information mapping, XML, 
DITA, managing, and so on.
* Business opportunities--may be relevant
* Vendors--meeting up with product vendors and hearing about new 
products of value to your department
* Recruiting--are you looking for new people in your group?
* Directions in technical communication--where are we going and how 
will this affect the work you're doing?

Is this what you're looking for?

Yours truly,

John Hedtke
Author/Consultant/Contract Writer
www.hedtke.com <-- website
Region 7 Director, STC
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