Content Reuse Education Evening

No matter what your business, efficient communication is crucial to your success. With that in mind, are the writers and content managers in your company working efficiently? Unless you are doing everything possible to reuse your content throughout your organization, you’re wasting time and money.

This special event is designed for a broader group of communicators beyond the technical writing community. We’ve assembled a team of content reuse experts for this session, which is open to anyone in the business community. As you’ll see when you attend, content reuse is not just for the technical writing community. The principles and applications are relevant to virtually any content environment. No matter what your business or your function, you can reuse your content.

Pamela Kostur, a partner at Parallax Communications in Toronto and a recognized content management expert, will describe the benefits of writing for reuse, and the process of planning and creating reusable content. Bryan Lynn, a founder of Thirty Six Software in Indianapolis, will demonstrate SmartDocs, an MS Word add-in that integrates the power of content reuse in the Word environment, and uses Microsoft SharePoint to centralize storage of reusable content and configure reusable content metadata.

The event concludes with a hands-on Smart Docs training session, conducted by Front Runner Training of Toronto, a recognized leader in technical communication training. Participants will also receive a trial version of the Smart Docs software to start work on reusing their own content.

Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Time: 6:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:00
Location: University of Waterloo, Arts Lecture Hall, Room AL 208
Cost:

In person: members are free; non-members are $5

Webinar: members are $10; non-members are $20 (to cover the cost of each network meeting line)

Registration and Payment: See our website.