[Sigia-l] Documentation and Training - April 18-21, 2007 - Vancouver

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

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> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Scott Abel
> Sent: 11 January 2007 12:35
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Documentation and Training - April 18-21, 
> 2007 - Vancouver
> 
> Documentation and Training: The User Experience Comes To Vancouver
> 
> The 8th Annual Documentation and Training Conference held for 
> the first time on the west coast in beautiful downtown 
> Vancouver, BC.  
> This year, we focus on the increasing importance of the user 
> experience in our work as technical communication and 
> training professionals. 

Until recently, I've only been vaguely aware of technical writing as a
discipline that pre-dates much of what I am involved in as a web
development IA who designs systems that other people build. While it
seems to me to be coming at the IA/UX thing from another angle, I'm
intrigued as to whether this is an area I could learn more from.

So - looking at http://www.doctrain.com/, I'm thinking of applying to
attend, but I need a bit of a business case to do so as it's not like
the IA Summit or something that I can hit my budget holders for. I'm
hoping that I'd be able to get a new angle on things that I can bring
back into my organisation (a large digital communications and
development house), but does anyone have anything more specific to say
on that point? 

In other words, what can the technical writing community do for me? ;-)

Jonathan

PS: Scott, there's a typo in the first para of the home page:
"Documentation & Trainining"

 

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