I appeal to all my dear writer friends to be patient till you read the end of this mail and then may reply whatsoever. The reason for writing this mail is to put forth few real excerpts and insights that we face and come across in our professional life. Please note that this is not to hurt anyone but to understand where we are in terms of developing our nation as a whole.

Folks,

A few weeks ago, I posted a message to this list about Tekom
certification for India-based technical writers (aspiring and
experienced).

We're organizing an interactive workshop on 22nd October in Bangalore
to learn about the following:

* Certification opportunity for professionals
* Certification opportunity for trainers
* Business opportunity for companies and trainers

If you are not in Bangalore, no problem. Just send a message to Akash
(akashjd@yahoo.com) or to me off-list. We will send you dial-in
details.

Target audience for the workshop:

Folks, the site is now twitter enabled.

To set up your twitter account,

1. Login to the twin site.

2. Click My Account from the menu on the left.

3. Click Edit and then click Twitter Accounts.

4. Click Add Account. You will be redirected to the Twitter Site.

5. Twitter asks you to allow access to the twin-drupal application. Click Allow.

6. Login to twitter.

7. Twitter authenticates you and you are returned to the TWIN site.

Done. This is a one time process to add your twitter account.

I have noticed people posting jobs anywhere they like - in blogs and forums. This is NOT allowed.

Post JOBS only in the JOBS section. No where else.

Forums are meant for queries. If you have a query on something, post it in the appropriate forum.

Blogs are meant to articulate your thoughts. May be you have a good article related to TW, or may be you have some tips on TW. Post it in your blog. Do NOT post queries in blogs. Anything unrelated to TW goes in the LOUNGE.

Do NOT post resumes anywhere except in the RESUME section.

I have updated the site. Drupal [actually we run on a modified Drupal version called Pressflow] has been updated to the latest version 6.

I have installed a mobile theme. Accessing the site through a mobile phone, should display the site properly.

I have also installed a twitter module. After login, click My Account, click Twitter and set your twitter account details.

Once set, you have the option to announce your post on twitter. Select post to twitter when publishing the post.

Folks, I have added a proper Rapid SSL paid certificate to the site.

This should be compatible on all browsers.

Delete the SSL certificate exceptions for twin-india.org if you have added them to the browser, earlier.

To do this on Mozilla Firefox:

1. Click Edit - Preferences
2. Click Encryption and then click View Certificates
3. Select the Startcom SSL certificates or the older self signed certificates for twin-india.org and www.twin-india.org and click Delete

Enjoy secure browsing.

Folks

All software on the server has been upgraded. Files have been backed up and the site is back in operation.

Thanks

Folks,

Here's an announcement and request. We need your ideas. Please chime
in with your ideas and suggestions.

On behalf of the TWIN team of volunteers, I'm pleased to let you know that we're playing an active role this year at the tcworld conference organized by Europe's largest association tekom (www.tekom.de). For information about tekom, see http://tekom.de/index_neu.jsp?.

The tcworld conference is perhaps one of the biggest technical communication conferences in the world. When it comes to trade fairs related to technical communication, it's probably the biggest. See

Microsoft Word tries to automatically recover a damaged document if it detects a problem with the file. You can also "force" Word to try to recover a document when you open it.

1. On the File menu, click Open.

2. In the File of type list, click All Files *.*.

3. In the Open dialog box, select your document.

4. Point to the arrow on the Open button, and then click Open and Repair.

This will help you recover lost data

Thanks and Best regards
Abhinandan Shenoy
Batch 92 FCP
TWB

"The IT sector should stop recruiting engineers from other branches, Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy said on Saturday." I read this in today's Deccan Herald. You can read the news report at this link:
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/80673/it-should-hire-only-computer.html

Do you agree with Murthy's statement? I feel that this is a deeply conservative statement incongrous with what is happening elsewhere. This illustartes the bias "computer engineers' have towards "non-engineers" in IT cos.