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* ANNOUNCE: Upcoming Bright Path Solutions training and events
* ANNOUNCE: TECHWR-L Site Redesign and Reorganization
* ANNOUNCE: TECHWR-L Store Now Open!
* STORY: Dan the Tech Writer and his support group
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ANNOUNCE: Upcoming Bright Path Solutions training and events
Bright Path Solutions has many training courses and free events coming up.
A few of these are listed below. For details, visit http://www.travelthepath.com/ and follow links to Training or Events.
The Master Series: a FrameMaker 6.0 1-day Specialized (Advanced) Workshop
-March 20th in Research Triangle Park NC ($149)
SkillBuilder Workshop: Working with FrameMaker Variables
-April 11th in Research Triangle Park NC ($35)
Adobe FrameMaker Free Capabilities Overview
-April 12th in Research Triangle Park NC (free)
-April 23th in Research Triangle Park NC (free)
FrameMaker: our original Boot Camp (basics, advanced, and ePublishing)
-April 1-5 in Nashville TN ($1,800 any location)
-May 6-10 in Research Triangle Park NC
-May 20-24 in Pittsburgh PA
-June 10-14 in Research Triangle Park NC
-also coming soon to St. Louis, Las Vegas, and Orlando FL
FrameMaker+SGML: Structured Document Publishing Boot Camp (includes XML)
-June 24-28 in Research Triangle Park NC ($1,800 any location)
-July 15-19 in Las Vegas NV
Also coming up in RTP, two free users meetings hosted by Bright Path
Solutions:
-NC WebWorks Users April 11th (http://www.webworks.com/forums > NC User
Group)
-Tri-XML mtg April 9th (http://www.trixml.org)
BRIGHT PATH SOLUTIONS
an Adobe Solution Sales Provider
a WebWorks University site
100 Park Drive, Suite 102
PO Box 14265
Research Triangle Park NC 27709-4265
PHONE: 919.547.0129
FAX: 919.558.2183 http://www.travelthepath.com
ANNOUNCE: TECHWR-L Site Redesign and Reorganization
**Breaking News from Behind the Scenes at TECHWR-L** <g>
Since January 2002, we've been feverishly working on a
TECHWR-L site redesign and reorganization, and we're
pleased to announce that the new site is now available:
Highlights of the new site include
* A new, fresher look
* A new structure and keywords to aid browsing
* New navigation aids
* Article summaries
* A new MySQL site search application, called
Mnogosearch
* Detailed (or fixed!) meta tag keywords
and descriptions
You'll also find links to the new TECHWR-L Store, which
offers TECHWR-L T-shirts, mugs, mousepads, and more!
All proceeds go toward supporting TECHWR-L.
We're still tidying up details across the site, but
please do visit, browse around, and send comments,
suggestions, and problems you encounter to me at
debray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot-
Hello, my name is Dan, and I'm a technical writer.
Hello, Dan, the support group chorused.
I've been addicted to technical writing for some time now. First, I
started small, with little contract projects here and there . . .
before I knew it, I had a full time job for a software company. I was
just churning out documentation . . .
I knew there was no turning back when I joined the TECHWR-L discussion
list. I enjoyed debating about one or two spaces after the period,
identified with the Deer in Headlights Syndrome, and even spent a lot
of time discussing whether or not I was a writer and if I was indeed
an artist.
Dan cleared his throat and shook his head.
I thought it couldn't get any worse -- then SnagIt came into my life.
The group members nodded their encouragement.
I don't know how I ever accomplished anything before SnagIt! It's
such a time saver - with profiles, I created and stored my most
frequently used settings so I didn't have to constantly change my
configuration. Then with multiple outputs, I could simultaneously
send my capture to as many outputs as I wanted. And, SnagIt offers
more input and output options than any other screen capture program
--input an object, web, text, video, direct x, graphical or program
file!
Not only that, but in SnagIt Studio I added annotation like text, arrows
and clipart, and in the Catalog I easily selected multiple files to save,
convert, print and e-mail in batches!
Dan, spent, flopped into his chair.
A member turned to him and whispered desperately, Is SnagIt really as good
as you say?
Dan nodded weakly. He looked around him and realized that he hadn't
helped at all - every support group member was itching to get to a
computer to download SnagIt.
Inwardly, he smiled. At least if he couldn't help them, he'd enjoy
the company in the SnagIt online forum.
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