Date: February 24, 2008

Winning New Business: Preparing Proposals 101

Hello Techwrl,

Enclosed is an announcement about the March 11, 2008 monthly meeting of the Society for Technical Communication, Phoenix Chapter.

If you have any questions or would like additional details, feel free to contact me.

Mike Schwinghammer
Public Relations Manager
Society for Technical Communication Phoenix Chapter
public_relations@stc-phoenix.com
480-314-3493
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If you’re being asked to use your content in more than one way, you might be at the stage where the “more” part includes methods and technologies you’re not really familiar with. Maybe “more” means creating help, sharing the content in a knowledge base, putting the content on the Web, maybe with automatic updates, and now adopting XML, perhaps DITA.

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