| 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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RSVP
(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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in.
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interested in technical communication in the Middle Tennessee
area.
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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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