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 April 11-13, 2007. San Francisco and November 2007 in Boston. http://www.gilbanesf.com

April 18-21, 2007. Vancouver. BC, Canada and October 2007 in Boston. http://www.doctrain.com

X-Pubs presents: CMS & Change - Love it, Hate it, Master it (Scott Abel & Emma Hamer)

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 — 10:00AM EST / 3:00 PM GMT
Reserve your FREE Webinar seat now at:
https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/952419737

In this interactive online event, you the participants, and content management strategist Scott Abel, will be interviewing Career and Performance Consultant Emma C. Hamer on one of the most critical issues of content management success: Change Management. Scott and Emma were voted two of the most valuable speakers at X-Pubs 2006 in London, and are teaming up to with X-Pubs again to present the online event: “CMS & Change - Love it, Hate it, Master it”.

Every new technology project that seeks to change the way people are used to working is put at risk by non-adoption by users, intermittent support by managers, and disparate expectations between the users, management, and the team implementing the system itself.

X-Pubs are facilitating a discussion around Change Management because although the business benefits of multi-purpose content reuse and single-source publishing of information are becoming commonly accepted, something still makes CMS and Structured Content scary.

In this session we will cover things like: How can you maintain management support and involvement in a user-driven initiative? How can department managers roll-out change to a large user group without turning them off? How does a line manager help transition people’s skills to new systems?

Attendees will also be invited to participate in the discussion by submitting questions for Scott and Emma to address for the group.

STC has posted a preview of the 2007 annual conference at http://www.stc-cdx.org/node/414. There are Institutes in content management, localization, knowledge management, information design and architecture, and Web 2.0.

The conference takes place May 13 - 16, 2007 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

The opening speaker for the 2007 STC annual conference is Simon Singh, STC’s 2007 Honorary Fellow, and an author, journalist, and television producer.

The closing speaker is Ze Frank, a high-tech humorist.

The photo gallery at www.stc-cdx.org/gallery has photos of both speakers.

We Are Smarter than Me (http://www.wearesmarter.org/) invites authors to participate in writing the first networked book on business, to be published in the fall of 2007 by Pearson Publishing.  The group says “Together we will write the book on how the emergence of community and social networks will change the future rules of business.”

CM Professionals, the international content management community of practice, is changing its public image with the December 7 launch of its new public-facing website: http://www.cmprofessionals.org/

“The outcome of our latest website questionnaire told us that our members wanted an improved website. Having a new website and better tooling was already our ambition, so we did our best to provide one to coincide with our Fall Summit, 27 November 2006”, says STC Fellow Ann Rockley, CEO of The Rockley Group (Canada) and former CM Pros President.

The contents of the CM Pros website has been brought back to the essentials and the navigation is made much more accessible. Members already responded enthusiastic on the new graphical design, made by Studio Zipper. (more…)

Online SIG Education Lead Tom Johnson is aggregating podcasts on the STC Suncoast Chapter site: http://www.stc-suncoast.org/podcastfeed Included are many podcasts by technical communicators, and podcasts from the Four Lakes chatper of STC.

Books:

Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, & Playtesting Games.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578202221/

Chris Crawford on Game Design
http://www.amazon.com/Chris-Crawford-Game-Design/dp/0131460994/

Web site, collection of information on game design patterns:
http://www.gamedesignpatterns.org/

These sites continually publish news about online communication:

http://arstechnica.com/
http://www.basement.org
http://www.thinkvitamin.com
http://www.digital-web.com
http://www.techcrunch.com
http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/
http://radar.oreilly.com/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/
http://blog.webreakstuff.com/
http://ajaxian.com
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/
http://digg.com/view/technology
http://www.37signals.com/svn/
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
http://www.informit.com

More are listed in this earlier post.

An overview of XHTML for mobile devices is available: http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/design/xhtmlinfo/ The site has a variety of other resources on mobile devices also,

Nokia is working on augmented reality, the subject of an earlier post on “digital grafitti.” Nokia is demonstrating a system that allows a phone to sense its location and the orientation of its camera, and then pull information about the visible objects from a database: http://www.technologyreview.com/BizTech/17807/

The Canada West Coast chapter of STC has launched a new site on the Expression Engine publishing system.  http://www.stcwestcoast.ca

Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association. 2007 LITA National Forum: Technology with Altitude: 10 Years of the LITA National Forum. Denver, Colorado, USA. October 4-7, 2007.

Presentations will have a technological focus and pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. The scope of the conference call for papers included:

1. Social Computing: social tools, collaborative software, gaming technologies…

2. New Media: wireless connectivity, iPods, handhelds… (more…)

Thanks to Online SIG member Eileen Potter for these links.

You can set up an audio blog, a talk show online, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ The “Writing” category has ]interviews with a “top, new poet” in Texas as voted by the Dallas Literary Society and a place where people can call in and share their writing with an audience.

Digital grafitti characterizes messages left “in mid-air,” tied to GPS coordinates for a given location and seen only when looking at that location through a special device. Look through it and see messages from other people, internet addresses, drawings, any messages entered on the device at that location, floating all around you). How will that change technical writing and copy writing? Eileen suggests we imagine creating content for a travel guide with this technology.
http://unrated.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/digital-graffiti-leave-messages-in-mid-air/