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November 3 Meeting

Webinar - Mobile Content: Single-Sourcing to the Max

Thinking about trying mobile for your online help or doc but hesitant because of the need for new tools? App programming? Try using your help authoring tool. In this webinar, you'll review mobile outputs from RoboHelp and Flare, then look at the features that help create the most flexible and controlled content possible.

Mobile information is becoming more common and companies are starting to look at it for their own specific needs. We usually think of app development in regard to mobile, but much of a company's information does not require an app; just reformatting and recoding to run efficiently on mobile devices. This can be done now using common help authoring tools, specifically Flare and RoboHelp. This session discusses how those tools support output to mobile, and what controls have to be applied to the content, and how, to ensure flexible content.

This webinar will review the technology and market changes that are finally driving the penetration of mobile information into tech comm, and how the support for mobile output by help authoring tools makes it possible for tech comm to try mobile output at almost zero risk. You'll learn about mobile architectures and configurations in general, and with regard to help authoring tools in particular, and will learn about the features to use for development to ensure that content is as flexible yet controlled as possible, to ensure that it will run on as many devices and outputs as possible - single sourcing to the max.

Program Title: Mobile Content: Single-Sourcing to the Max

Date and Time: Thursday, November 3, 2011 3:00 – 4:00 PM CDT

Presenter: Neil Perlin
Cost: Free to MTC, $10 for all other attendees
Location: Tanner Corporate Services, Main Conference Room.

Directions to Tanner Corporate Services:
Tanner Corporate Services, Inc. is located at 58 Lindsley Avenue Nashville, TN 37210. For directions from your location, use the following link: http://maps.yahoo.com/dd. To read more about Tanner Corporate Services, visit http://www.tannercorp.com/.

Presenter Bio:
Neil Perlin has 32 years experience in technical communication, with 24 in training, consulting, and development for various types of online formats and tools, including WinHelp, HTML Help, CE Help, JavaHelp, RoboHelp, ForeHelp, Flare, and many now known only in legend. Much of that work involved assisting client companies determine their tool and methodology needs and integrate their new tools and methodologies into their culture; that experience provides the basis for this presentation.

Neil is a columnist and frequent speaker for STC, IEEE PCS, and other professional groups, a member of the STC’s Boston chapter, the creator and manager of the Beyond the Bleeding Edge stem at the STC’s annual conference, and an STC Fellow. He is a Madcap Certified Instructor for Flare and Mimic, and an Adobe-Certified Instructor for RoboHelp and Captivate. He provides training, consulting, and development for online help and documentation, Flare, RoboHelp, Mimic, Captivate, XML, single sourcing, and structured authoring through Hyper/Word Services of Tewksbury, MA.