STC WDC Blog

[ October 31, 2008; 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. ] (Speaker: Tom Magliery, XML Technology Specialist, JustSystems; Location: Anywhere with a phone line and a Web connection). Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Click here to register and pay.

Do you feel you’ve taken conditional text to the max – and maybe beyond – in your current documentation suite? DITA, the gold standard for supporting content [...]

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[ June 27, 2008; 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. ] We and the STC Technical Editing SIG are proud to announce our next webinar, “Words, Words, Words: Controlling the Unnecessary Sprawl of Terminology.” Get more information here. Register by clicking Sign up now! in the upper right corner.

Although there are plenty of words in our language to choose from, our technical environments unconsciously encourage [...]

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[ March 29, 2008; 10:00 am to 11:30 am. ] We are happy to announce the chapter’s third webinar in its 2008 series of excellent speakers and content at a low, low, low price! Join us online on Saturday, March 29 at 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. (this particular webinar may actually end earlier than that but we want to allow plenty of time for [...]

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[ February 26, 2008; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The world of technical communication is changing. Writers need to be able to develop structured, topic-based content that can be stored in content management systems and reused for multiple purposes. This session provides an introduction to modular writing and how to begin to approach this challenge. Attendees will learn what modular writing is, why modular [...]

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[ January 28, 2008; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] (Speaker: Nicoletta Bleiel; Location: Anywhere with a phone line and a Web connection). Time: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Join STC WDC for our first webinar! Nicoletta Bleiel will discuss and demonstrate a number of low cost (or free) tools that technical communicators can use to perform a variety of tasks, including capturing screens, creating and [...]

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