Education Event: "Content Reuse"

No matter what your business, efficient communication is crucial to your success. With that in mind, are the writers and content managers in your company working efficiently? Unless you are doing everything possible to reuse your content throughout your organization, you’re wasting time and money.

This special event is designed for a broader group of communicators beyond the technical writing community. We’ve assembled a team of content reuse experts for this session, which is open to anyone in the business community. As you’ll see when you attend, content reuse is not just for the technical writing community. The principles and applications are relevant to virtually any content environment. No matter what your business or your function, you can reuse your content.

Pamela Kostur, a partner at Parallax Communications in Toronto and a recognized content management expert, will describe the benefits of writing for reuse, and the process of planning and creating reusable content. Bryan Lynn, a founder of Thirty Six Software in Indianapolis, will demonstrate SmartDocs, an MS Word add-in that integrates the power of content reuse in the Word environment, and uses Microsoft SharePoint to centralize storage of reusable content and configure reusable content metadata.

The event concludes with a hands-on SmartDocs training session, conducted by Front Runner Training of Toronto, a recognized leader in technical communication training. Participants will also receive a trial version of the SmartDocs software to start work on reusing their own content.

Sponsor

Front Runner Training

When:

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. Doors open at 6:00 pm

Where:

University of Waterloo, Arts Lecture Hall, Room AL 208 | Map

Cost:

In Person: STC members are free; non-members are $5

Webinar: STC members are $10; non-members are $20 (to cover the cost of each network meeting line)

Registration and Payment Method:

Registration: Go to our Webinar Registration page to complete the registration form and for more information about paying for the webinar.

In Person: Non-members may pay at the door.

Webinar:
Pay by Cheque or by Credit Card via PayPal

We will send you the calling information for the webinar when we receive your cheque. You can have as many people at one site to watch the webinar as you like.

Contact:

Fei Min Lorente.