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The entire on-line FrameMaker Help is now (June, 2006) available as a downloadable PDF.

Announcement by Heather Hedden

The joint international conference of the American Society of Indexers and the Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada, to be held in Toronto June 15-17, has a number of sessions and workshops that would be of interest to those in the field of online content, especially those who would like to know more about creating online indexes.

Below is just a sampling of the program: (more…)

OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, announced that the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology Standardization has approved the OpenDocument Standard for release as ISO/IEC 26300. The press release was posted today, May 8 2006.

The OpenDocument standard defines an open XML file format for office applications, so users of office suites can freely exchange text, spreadsheets, charts, graphs, presentations, and databases. OpenDocument was ratified as an OASIS standard in May 2005.

Our Online SIG web services team, Lou Quillio and Destry Wion, keep us up-to-date on news of the Web and publish educational articles frequently too.

Destry has an online journal with an RSS feed. Subscribe to receive frequent reminders of timely articles on topics related to open source web development and technical communication.

Lou posts news and articles on the STC Forum. Frequently these have instructions for key activities like incorporating an RSS feed in a website or installing a personal wiki.

The Online SIG is very fortunate to have volunteers who are so generous in sharing their knowledge and providing services to other members. Thank you, Destry and Lou, for your work this past year and for continuing in the new STC year.

Recent news includes “Web 2.0 and the enterprise,” reporting on uses of wikis and blogs for collaboration in business and on trends in marketing software to businesses. In particular IBM recently announced QED wiki, quick and easily done wiki, to allow people to aggregate information from the web for use in analysis of business situations. The concept is building custom web applications very quickly.

STC Online SIG member Scott Abel is our Content Management Lead. You can follow news of Content Management on Scott’s website, http://www.thecontentwrangler.com/. Subscribe to the RSS feed to stay abreast of developments in Content Management and technical communication.

The April, 2006 issue of the newsletter of the STC UK Chapter has been posted at:
http://www.stcuk.org/newsletters/April2006/index.htm

“Tools, Tips, and Websites,” starting with Content Management Strategies, focus on several aspects of online communication. Desktop search, MS Word’s RD field code, and capturing an image from Windows Media Player are included, along with content management and Online Help.

Rosenfeld Media has announced (April 21, 2006) that Donna Maurer has agreed to write a book on card sorting. Rosendfeld Media’s initial books will provide user experience designers with practical help applying design methods such as card sorting. Donna is one of the world’s leading experts on that subject.

Donna’s book, and all Rosenfeld Media books, will be developed with input from readers. Each Rosenfeld Media book will have a dedicated site where readers and the author can share information and questions. Please visit the site for Donna’s book and subscribe to its RSS feed. Donna has started her exploration of card sorting for the book with a brief survey which you are invited to take.