Adobe JamJar is an interactive, attractive, and scalable internet application based on Flex 2 technologies. JamJar provides a private, persistent work area for small groups to easily exchange digital content in order to plan events, exchange ideas, manage projects, centralize information, and share files including images.
A service called Grokker is available as a demo to search Yahoo, Wikipedia, and Amazon. Although the demo does not search everything on the Web, it’s a useful tool in research, helping to aggregate results that are meaningful to the searcher.
October 25-27 2006. The Plone Conference 2006. Seattle, WA. http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006
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In her July 31 newsletter to members, STC President Paula Berger reports that the Website Committee and the STC staff are working together to redesign the stc.org website. They are looking for volunteers with extensive expertise in usability, accessibility, project management, gathering requirements, and/or content management systems. For more information, please see www.stc.org/membership/cfv01.asp.
The Online SIG has gathered and posted some information about options for online meetings: an article, an STC Forum topic, and an STC Wiki project. John Posada is gathering information on how to create a podcast and we plan to publish that on the STC Wiki.
We are publishing chapter meetings in Hyperviews Online. For the first one, we have slides only. If your chapter has held a meeting you would like to have published in Hyperviews Online, or you would like to work on the Online Meetings project, please contact the Online SIG manager. Contact information is on the Leaders page.
Please welcome the 35 new and returning members who joined the Online SIG in July. We now have 1873 members and STC has 14686 members.
Please note: based on the comments, Marcia Poulsen has revised the presentation we published here. The revision has been posted: http://stc-on.org/online/topics/content-management/2006/08/19/topic-types/
Online SIG member Marcia Poulsen presented “The Three Topic Types — Concept, Tasks, and Reference — and How to Use them Effectively: Borrowing Best Practices from DITA” for the August 3 Central New York chapter meeting. The Online SIG has posted the slides.
It’s our goal to publish a chapter meeting each month, and to podcast as many of those as possible. (more…)
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