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Date
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Program Title
Tools Marketplace
Tad Staley, Adobe.com online services Sponsor
Randolph Associates is pleased to sponsor
STC's October meeting to show its appreciation for STC's professional development programs, and to thank its members who
have contributed substantially to its growth and success for more than 24 years.
Randolph Associates provide permanent and contract personnel placement services to clients who seek the best people to meet and manage their needs for communications professionals. Randolph Associates also provide on- and off-site project management services for Information Design and Delivery projects. The company specializes in placing documentation, publishing, training, corporate communications, marketing communications, online development, design, project management, and technical personnel. Randolph Associates always has needs for the most talented, experienced professionals. To learn more about its services, please go to www.greatjobs.com, or contact Caleb@greatjobs.com. Description
This month we are doing Round Tables. It is like musical chairs or maybe speed dating. Select a table and listen and participate in a 20-minute presentation on a specific tool or sets of tools. As the music plays, you move to a different table. You will get to sit at three different tables out of a possible five. Our presenters have interesting information about tools and their uses that you will want to hear. Join us for a fun-filled evening that is sure to help you keep up-to-date on the tools in today’s marketplace. All attendees can participate in a special raffle — a free ticket to DocTrain East, the Documentation and Training Conference held October 29 - November 1, 2008 in Burlington, MA. The ticket is $999 value. The theme of this year's DocTrain East Conference is Producing Quality Content. The roster is full of exciting presentations that are of special interest to the technical communications community. About the Topics and the Presenters
Acrobat.com Acrobat.com a set of free online services—Buzzword, ConnectNow, and Acrobat.com Share—used to create and share documents, to communicate in real time, and to simplify collaboration. Buzzword is a web-based word processor designed for collaboration, ubiquitous access and print-perfect results; ConnectNow is an easy and responsive personal web conferencing service for up to three people; and Acrobat.com Share is a service that allows online sharing of high quality, web-embeddable documents. Tad Staley is the Senior Evangelist for the Adobe Hosted Services team, which creates online collaborative applications for knowledge workers. Tad started his career as an application designer and developer for VisiCalc. After several years at Lotus, followed by a stint in Internet consulting, Tad joined Macromedia in 2002 to promote the Flash platform. For the past two years, he collaborates in building Adobe's online presence. Arbortext Tom Kensela from PTC will talk discuss the Abortext tools. Arbortext is a content publishing system that streamlines and automates your information publishing process and eliminates costly inefficiencies. Leveraging XML authoring, technical illustration creation, content and process management, and dynamic enterprise publishing capabilities of Arbortext, documentation and publications organizations can improve their publishing processes and help their organizations gain significant competitive advantage and lasting differentiation. Abortext supports DITA, Docbook, S1000D and other information data models. Tom Kenslea is responsible for Arbortext publishing and content management customer relations with PTC's Federal Aerospace and Defense accounts in the Eastern US. He has an extensive background in content management including time at Documentum and at Genuity. Tom has a Bachelor's in Anthropology from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Northeastern University. He works out of PTC’s Needham headquarters. Web-oriented tools Review the current tools and technologies used to deliver technical information on the web, focusing on Adobe’s Dreamweaver and Flash CS3. Joel Howe is a mechanical engineer turned web designer, developer, and animator. As a principal at Framework Media, Joel develops interactive and animated content. When not teaching, Joel is using tools such as Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects, and 3ds max in his daily production work. Doxygen Doxygen is a powerful tool commonly used to generate reference information from the source code for many programming languages, commonly used in documenting APIs. Ed Marshall is an independent consulting writer specializing in documenting products such as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Software Developer Kits (SDKs). Structured FrameMaker and DITA: Lessons Learned Since the end of 2006, Andrew Harrington has lead the technical effort for Avid Technology’s transition from unstructured FrameMaker to DITA-based structured documents. Andrew has been a technical writer at Avid Technology for more than ten years. Now a Principal Technical Writer, he creates documentation for professional video editing applications and provides templates and tools support for the Technical Publications groups. Time
5:45 - 9:00 PM - Dinner meeting
(6:30 - Dinner, 7:30 - Presentation) Location
Cost
Payment received by October 12:
$25 for STC Boston and Northern New England chapter members $15 for full-time registered students* $35 for other STC members and non-members Payment received after October 12 (space permitting): Cancellations must be made by October 12 to receive a refund. For More Information
Contact Cindy Cookson, Accountant for the Boston Chapter, by e-mail or
phone at 978-409-6112.
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