Webinars

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Webinars for 2012

Sherri Edwards' webinars are interactive sessions for a limited number of participants. You can expect personal attention, open discussion, and opportunities to ask questions regarding specific topic-related areas of interest.

Webinar: Network Your Way to Success

Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Time: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT

Are you considering a career change? Think you know what you want to do, but aren’t sure how to get there or if it is right for you? Have you found conventional means of finding employment to be unproductive? Networking can lead to career advancement and contribute to your personal and professional development. Learn how to build sustainable relationships with people through a variety of resources. Get strategies for:

Speaking with new contacts at events and meetings.
Getting the real scoop on a new industry or new line of work.
Identifying resources.
Pursuing leads.
Requesting informational interviews.
Being remembered.

Webinar: Interviewing Techniques

You did your homework well. Your resume captured an employer’s attention and the company wants to interview you! Now what? Are you ready for the interview or does the idea increase your anxiety? You can be confident, relaxed, alert, and prepared for your next interview. Prime yourself for victory! Learn how to:

Avoid traps and give positive responses to frequently asked interview questions.
Prepare your answer to "tell me about yourself?"
Overcome concerns about your background.
Gain control of the interview process.
Get the offer!

Webinar: Negotiating Compensation: the Secrets to Establishing Your Worth

Do you believe you are underpaid but don’t know how to change it? Do you have no idea how to respond when asked what your salary requirements are? You will learn how to:

Find and understand your current market value.
Make appropriate and reasonable salary requests you are likely to win and effectively request a raise.
Negotiate an offer or contract with a new employer.

ThirtySix Software Upcoming Webinars

Dates & Times

March 6, 2012 at Noon PT
March 7 at 6:30 p.m. PT

Join Lisa Pietrangeli and Bryan Lynn to learn how SmartDocs transforms your MS Word environment into a powerful content management and content reuse solution.

WRITE ONCE. APPROVE ONCE. USE EVERYWHERE.

SmartDocs is a powerful content management and content reuse solution for Microsoft Word. With SmartDocs, content is authored once, approved once, and then reused over and over again. Track, share, search, find, and reuse your content across documents and across departments.

SmartDocs is used by teams of writers — technical writers creating documentation, sales teams writing proposals, instructional designers developing training, and more — to create documents faster and improve the quality of the documents they create. An elegant alternative to XML, SmartDocs is affordable, quick to implement, and easy to use.You will learn how SmartDocs allows writers to take advantage of content reuse without ever leaving their Word authoring environment by incorporating:

Reusable snippets
Conditional text
Reusable variables

Join our webinar to learn about our special promotion exclusively for the Puget Sound Chapter! Visit our website to learn more about SmartDocs and our free 30-Day evaluation.

Click here to register for March 6 webinar.

Click here to register for March 7 webinar.

Adobe Webinars

Adobe is excited to bring to you a series of great technical communication eSeminars in February and March 2012. Thanks to our valued partners for providing the premium learning content on offer here. Please find below the details of the upcoming eSeminars. Please feel free to share this announcement with your friends and colleagues who might be interested.

We hope you find these eSeminars useful and informative.

Upcoming webinars are always listed here.
Within five business days, the on-demand recording of each webinar is available here:

Adobe Webinar: Enhanced XML Editing and CMS Integration Capabilities in Adobe FrameMaker 10

Date: Wednesday, February 22
Time: 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. IST

Overview
Join Nakshatra Bhardwaj, Engineering Lead at Adobe Systems Inc., for an interactive webinar where he will walk the audience through the various XML editing enhancements in FrameMaker 10.

Topics include:

Comprehensive out-of-the-box support for DITA 1.2 and S1000D
Wizard to Create Structured Applications
Support for Creation of FrameMaker Application Files for DITA Specialization
Filter Content using Attributes
Compare Structured Documents
Attribute Editor
Attribute Config
XML Tags: View Tags, Expand and Collapse Tags, Drag and Drop Elements / Text
EDD Enhancements: Import CSS, Auto Insertions, Descriptive Tags

Nakshatra will also demonstrate how FrameMaker 10 allows users to leverage the seamless out-of-the-box integration with leading Content Management Systems (including SharePoint, Documentum) to reuse resources and store/manage/update/retrieve/share/review content.
Register here.

Adobe Webinar: Multi-screen Publishing and Next Generation Collaboration Workflows in Adobe RoboHelp 9

Date: Wednesday, February 22
Time: 3:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. IST

Overview
Join Praful Jain, Engineering Manager at Adobe Systems Inc., for an interactive webinar where he will walk the audience through the versatile ‘single-click’ multichannel multidevice publishing capabilities in Adobe RoboHelp 9.

Topics include:

Dynamic user-centric content (DUCC)
Single sourcing to multiple channels
Adobe AIR Help
Microsoft Word 2010 support
Adobe PDF support
ePub format output for mobile devices, tablets, and eBook readers
Output to SharePoint
TOC-based Output
Option to exclude unreferenced topics from output

Praful will also demonstrate how RoboHelp 9 empowers authors to leverage the advanced roundtrip review capabilities in today’s distributed, multi-author environment to effectively and efficiently collaborate on content.
Register here.

Adobe Webinar: Reduced Cost, Faster GTM – Best Practices in Structured & Unstructured Authoring to Drive Downstream Localization Efficiencies

Date: Wednesday, February 29
Time: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT

Overview
Join Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist, as he walks you through some of the best practices in translation that he has learnt in his 20+ years in the technical communication industry, and specifically in the localization space. The webinar will help you understand how to reduce costs and streamline the downstream translation processes for structured as well as unstructured authoring scenarios.

Topics to be covered in Unstructured Authoring:

Managing styles in paragraph, character and table catalogs
Managing format overrides
Suppressing unwanted alerts when opening documents
Real-time spell checker
Drag-n-drop editing and automated scripting to eliminate repetitive tasks
Background text color highlighting
Handling rich media and leveraging “poster” frames
Collaborative review through enhanced importing of PDF comments

Topics to be covered in Structured Authoring:

DITA element manipulation using enhanced tag views
Managing metadata
Filter by attribute as a better solution for “conditional text”
Developing attribute values
Leveraging integrating with the CMS (Content Management System)
Other productivity tips related to DITA authoring

Adobe Webinar: Best Practices in Help & Policy Authoring and Publishing to Drive Downstream Localization Efficiencies – Reduced Cost, Faster GTM

Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT

Topics to be covered in User Assistance:

Leveraging Unicode support
Simultaneous topic editing
Control over language definitions and attributes
Managing multi-author environments

Review and collaboration workflows
Comment moderation
Tracking changes

PDF based review workflows
Shared and reusable resources
Live linking of key assets

Adobe Webinar: Looking to Implement a CMS? How about a FREE Developer License of Adobe CRX Lite (Day Software) with out-of-the-box integration with FrameMaker 10?

Date: Tuesday, March 6
Time: 10 a.m to 11 a.m. PT

Overview
Join Tom Aldous, Director of Adobe Technical Communication Business Development and Evangelism, for an interactive webinar where he will demonstrate LIVE how to install, configure and run CRX Lite.

Tom will also walk you through the steps showing how to configure FrameMaker 10 for use with CRX. A cloud-based CMS with integration with your favorite unstructured, structured and XML editor and publisher.
Register here.

Adobe Webinar: Mobile and Social – The Future of Technical Communication

Date: Wednesday, March 7
Time: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT

Overview
Join Tom Aldous, Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist and Adobe partner Daniel R. Odio, CEO of Socialize for an interactive webinar where they will discuss how mobile and social are changing the way people communicate (create, share, and consume content), the strategic implications of the same for today’s technical communication professionals, and how best to ride these mega trends in the technical communication space.

If you are looking for ways to better engage your users and boost discovery and interaction with your content, this is a “can't-miss” webinar!
Register here.

Adobe Webinar: Confessions of an Enlightened Mind – Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid when Starting a Help Project

Date: Wednesday, March 21
Time: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT

Hosts
Maxwell Hoffmann - Adobe Technical Communication evangelist
Neil Perlin - Adobe Partner and internationally acclaimed subject matter expert in online Help and documentation

Overview
Join Maxwell Hoffmann and Neil Perlin for an interactive webinar in which they will discuss ten major commonly-made mistakes while starting Help projects, and how to avoid them.

Neil will examine technical and content controls needed to start a project on the right track, and workflow and management controls needed to keep it there. The goal is to create projects that are as technically correct, flexible, manageable, and “future-proof” as possible.

Modern Help authoring tools like RoboHelp are powerful and feature-rich, and provide great flexibility to online Help authors. But that power also makes it possible to get a project off to a bad start. Some of the mistakes are just silly, but others can lead to hiring the wrong author, developing the wrong output, or just sending a project out of control in ways that need expensive rework or cleanup later. Authors made such mistakes in the past and got away with it. But today, as new technologies, concepts (“multi-channel publishing”?), and terms appear –– and time-to-market and ROI requirements continue to tighten, those mistakes are increasingly unacceptable.

Neil Perlin is an internationally known consultant and president of Hyper/Word Services. In addition, Neil is a 33-year veteran of tech comm, a 26-year veteran of hypertext, and a 21-year veteran of RoboHelp.

Maxwell Hoffmann will walk you through some of the best practices in translation that he has learnt in his 20+ years in the technical communication industry, and specifically in the localization space. The webinar will help you understand how to reduce costs and streamline the downstream translation processes for authoring and publishing user assistance content.

Topics to be covered in User Assistance:

Leveraging Unicode support
Simultaneous topic editing
Control over language definitions and attributes
Managing multi-author environments
Review and collaboration workflows
Comment moderation
Tracking changes
PDF based review workflows
Shared and reusable resources
Live linking of key assets

Join us to learn from the best in the business.
Register here.