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FRAMEMAKER/ACROBAT TRAINING: FrameMaker/Acrobat Training
Boston, SF Bay Area & Ireland
Instructor: Shlomo Perets, http://www.microtype.com/Training.html
* Structured FrameMaker: Authoring -- Boston: April 26,
San Carlos: June 14, Dublin: August 15
* Structured FrameMaker: Developing EDDs -- Boston: April 27-28,
San Carlos: June 15-16, Dublin: August 16-17
* Technical Indexing with FrameMaker -- Boston: April 29,
San Carlos: June 17, Dublin: August 18
* FrameMaker Template Design -- Boston: May 1-2,
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* Single Sourcing with FrameMaker -- Boston: May 3,
San Carlos: June 21, Dublin: August 23
* FrameMaker-to-Acrobat Advanced Techniques -- Boston: May 4-5,
San Carlos: June 22-23, Dublin: August 24-25
* Acrobat: Designing Access to Information & Testing Your PDFs --
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AuthorIT Software Corporation Limited (ASCL), recently released a much
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EDUCATION: Enjoy a Special Discount on UCLA Extension Online
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WORKSHOP: Steve Krug and Lou Rosenfeld - IA and Usability
Gurus Offer Workshops
Steve Krug and Lou Rosenfeld are on the road offering their popular, back-to-back, day-long web usability and information architecture
seminars. Discounts are available for early registration, for groups of three or more, and for registering for both seminars. Details follow:
--- Don't Make Me Think: The Web Usability Workshop (with Steve Krug)
Tampa - April 10, 2006: $795; $695 by March 17
Austin - May 12, 2006: $795; $695 by April 21
Philadelphia - June 2, 2006: $795; $695 by May 15
Expanding on the topics in his best-selling Web usability book, Steve's workshop will teach you how to recognize and solve the usability problems in your own site, and how to make low-cost/no-cost testing an everyday part of your company's design process. The day includes a live usability test and expert reviews of a number of websites using URLs submitted by attendees--perhaps even your own.
--- Enterprise Information Architecture (with Lou Rosenfeld)
Tampa - April 11, 2006: $795; $695 by March 17
Austin - May 11, 2006: $795; $695 by April 21
Philadelphia - June 1, 2006: $795; $695 by May 15
This day-long seminar will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet. Coverage includes a combination of design recommendations, governance advice, and research methods that work in the highly political and often nasty environment known as the enterprise. The seminar combines lecture, discussion, and group exercises.
Survey: User Assistance Salary Survey Results Available
The results of the 2006 WritersUA Salary Survey are now available. Thank you to all of the user assistance professionals who contributed their information! http://www.writersua.com/surveys/salary06/index.html
WritersUA Conference Approaches
The 14th Annual WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance will be held in Palm Springs April 9-12. The conference focus, as always, is on user assistance Design, Tools, Technologies, and Content Development. Over 60 informative sessions will be presented by 45 expert speakers. http://www.writersua.com/ohc06/index.html
Registration is Open for Australasian Online Documentation and
Content Conference
The ninth annual Australasian Online Documentation and Content Conference, AODC 2006, will be in Cairns, from Wednesday 3rd to Friday 5th May. AODC 2006 features 20 sessions covering techniques, technologies, tools and case studies, presented by international and local expert speakers. Session topics include DITA, structured authoring, XML, usability, editing, migration to Microsoft Vista, user assistance, dynamic HTML and case studies. For all the details, see the agenda. http://www.aodc.com.au/
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