Dear TWINers:

We have received an overwhelming response for the tcworld India 2011 conference. Thanks a ton for your support!

We would like to extend one more special offer to you. Register between February 18th and 25th and stand a chance to WIN A FREE REGISTRATION for the tcworld India 2011 conference for your friend or colleague. Alternatively, you can choose to get your registration fee back!

What’s the selection process?
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Technical Writers of India (TWIN), in partnership with tekom, is organizing the first-ever international conference tcworld India 2011 for technical communicators in India. The conference will witness speakers from Germany, India, Israel, and US. The speakers will present important topics, such as tekom certification modules, DITA, project management for technical documentation, and so on. The conference will be held in Bangalore from March 10 to March 12, 2011.

Do you cringe when you see 'deserts' on the menu or laugh hysterically at spell check goof-ups? Share such funny or tragic real life experiences with all of us on Facebook and win exciting prizes.

Here's the Facebook group link:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417213377013&set=m.740486027.100000155414932#!/home.php?sk=group_169344383105279&ap=1

What can you post?
- You can post an image, text, or video; any content that includes humor and is written in an unusual way, located in an unusual place, or written incorrectly (so it has an altogether different meaning).

Are you planning to adopt DITA? Are you wondering why DITA rules?

This session on DITA is tailor-made for technical writers, e-learning professionals, and managers who plan to adopt DITA.

What will you learn?
- Basics of the DITA architecture
- Content reuse using DITA (a demonstration)
- The concept of semantic tagging and topic-based writing

Who will help you take the leap?
Mathew Varghese, Content Architect @ Networking and Cloud division, Citrix.

Dear TWINers:

Here's information about the much-awaited tcworld India 2011
conference, which is organized by TWIN and Tekom. We will share more
information as it becomes available. Take a sneak peak at some of the
key sessions that will take place at this international conference.

Please help us spread this information.

Preconference (web broadcasts)
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* DITA Deep Dive: A hands-on workshop by Mathew Varghese
* Ten Tips for Tastier Tasks by Leah Guren
* Single-Sourcing Successfully with RoboHelp – A Case Study by Paula Stern

Do you write procedures?

It’s hard to imagine a technical communicator who doesn’t. You know that procedures are the most important way that users reach specific task-based goals. But are you doing all that you can to make these procedures useful, effective, and innovative?

How would your users rate them?

- We support annotation for our documentation portal pages. So, our doc enhancements are mostly user-driven and meaningful...

- I have developed a script that provides "shorter" shortcuts in FrameMaker...

- We work very closely with the Usability team to provide the in-screen help, and have, therefore, cut down the user manual content and the associated effort by 40%...

- Our team has created a process that helps the Technical Support staff to independently roll the Knowledge Base information into the product documentation...

Then come and flaunt your idea at the first big STC India event of this year: STC India Regional Conference, which is happening on July 25, 2009 @ Sasken, Bangalore.

In this conference, we'll have a 90-min session called "I think, therefore I am... here". In this session, each team/individual will be given maximum 10 minutes to present their idea. Three best ideas will be selected by a panel of judges at the venue. One of these ideas will win the Adobe Technical Communication Suite!

Thanks to Adobe for sponsoring this gift.

YES, it can! Believe it or not!

And that's not all. This iPod will be dwarfed by the HUGE package it will come with. So, what's the package? Read on...