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It’s a Family Reunion . . . A Society for Technical Communication Family Reunion, That Is!!

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The STC Middle Tennessee Chapter has most certainly missed you. Yes, YOU!

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(Updated April 11, 2008)


Lunchtime Webinar
Practical Uses for DITA: Product Documentation and Training

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Attend this webinar to learn how:

  • Single-sourcing using the capabilities of Arbortext allowed for 9+ deliverables from one source
  • Using a DITA based solution helped to modularize course design and facilitate reuse.
  • Adopting a dynamic publishing solution benefited course consistency, standards and development.

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(Updated March 19, 2008)


Lunchtime Webinar
Bulletproof Word to PDF Conversion: Ensuring Regulatory Compliance in Your PDF Rendered Result


Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Does everyone follow document authoring rules in your organization? Even with skilled authors and template usage, your document still may not convert correctly to regulatory-acceptable PDF.

Learn more in this educational seminar!

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(Updated March 19, 2008)


2007 STC Competition
Awards Banquet


Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Join members of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication for the awards banquet Wednesday, January 16 . We will announce the awards and honor the judges at the banquet. The award-winning technical documents and online communication will be on display. The banquet has become one of the highlights of our year as we celebrate the hard work of our profession.

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(Updated January 2, 2008)


"Content Analysis: The Key to Reuse" Lunch and Learn

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Successful content analysis, tracking and reuse are critical to single sourcing and content management. This presentation discusses the process of analyzing content on conceptual, relational and structural levels. We also focus on ways to track the results of an analysis for use in FrameMaker single sourcing and in a content management system.

We also identify some basic questions to ask during a content analysis and show a resulting content matrix with vertical and horizontal content patterns that support reuse and provide to structure.

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(Updated December 17, 2007)


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March 2008 Newsletter

Spring is here and you can find out what's up with Middle Tennessee Chapter of STC in our latest newsletter!

(Updated April 11, 2008)


Tennessee UPA Chapter March Meeting

Guest speaker John Bowie will present “The Art and Science of Simplicity” at the Tennessee UPA meeting this Thursday, 6:30 – 8 p.m., at the Hermitage Library, 3700 James Kay Lane, in Hermitage.

John is the director of the User Experience Center of Excellence at Deloitte.

Before joining Deloitte, he led worldwide “Design for the User” initiatives at three Fortune 50 companies (HP, GE, and UnitedHealth Group). He attained international recognition as a writer, speaker, and change catalyst for user experience design issues, with clients such as HP, IBM, Microsoft, and the Economic Development Board of Singapore.

Please join us for refreshments at 6:30 and John’s presentation at 7.

To help us prepare for this event, please contact plivingston@deloitte.com to let us know if you plan to attend.

Thanks! We hope to see you there!


Introduction to XSL Transforms

Thursday, February 21, 2008

It's always something: Learn one technology and you'll soon find that to do anything really juicy you need to learn another one that sits on top of it! Examples abound: HTML/CSS, JavaScript/DHTML, and of course XML/XSL. In this session, we will discover XSL, the XML stylesheet language, and learn some coding basics. In particular, we'll explore transforms (the T in XSLT), and how they interact with XML documents to create powerful and flexible pages that choose not only what to display, but how to display it -- without scripting!

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(Updated February 11, 2008)


Holiday Gathering: A Time to Give and a Time for Good Cheer

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

The holiday gathering was a great success! Thank you to everyone who donated items for the Nashville Rescue Mission Donation Center. Also, thanks to Tanner Corporate Services for hosting and for the VP - Programs for organizing.

(Updated January 2, 2008)

 


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