Events

    29 September, 2010
    LavaCon conference

    September 29–October 2, 2010

    This year’s focus: How to develop, manage and publish content that enhances the customer experience, reduces production costs and promotes your online brand.

    For details, see www.lavacon.org.

    Register with referral code: SCRIPTORIUM and receive a $50 discount. Additionally, LavaCon will donate $100 to Gulf Coast relief efforts when you use this referral code.

    Sarah O’Keefe will present on calculating the ROI for XML and DITA topic-based authoring on October 2 at 8 a.m.

    5 October, 2010
    XSL techniques for XML-to-XML transformations

    1–2 p.m. Eastern time

    Presented by Simon Bate

    One of the selling points of XML is that it’s possible to use XSL to reorganize or make corrections to XML files. However, the techniques you use in XML-to-XML conversions differ from those used to transform XML into deliverables (such as HTML or PDF). This session uses Scriptorium’s experience transforming XML containing 2000-year-old Greek texts to demonstrate how to write XML-to-XML transforms and provides some insight on how to deal with unusual data.

    The event is free, but registration is required.

    3 November, 2010
    tekom conference

    November 3–5, 2010

    Join us in Wiesbaden for the world’s largest technical communication conference.

    Sarah O’Keefe will attend and present “Managing in an XML Environment.”

    You can find information about tekom at www.tekom.de.

    9 November, 2010
    Content strategy analysis for technical communication

    In this webcast, Sarah O’Keefe explains how to assess a technical communication workflow to develop a content strategy. Topics include:

    • Analyzing an established workflow
    • Building a business case for a new workflow
    • Change management

    If you think your organization needs a new approach, but you can’t figure out how to get there from here, this webcast is for you.

    The event is free, but registration is required.

    Please note that Gotowebinar provides both telephone numbers and computer audio. Our attendees report that the former is generally of higher quality.