Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Minutes of the Bangalore Technical Writers Meetup ((June '07)- Supported by STC India

The Bangalore Technical Writers Meetup for June '07-Supported by STC India took place in Adobe Systems on June 23rd, 2007. Listed are the attendees along with their respective companies' names:
1. Preran- ADOBE
2. Darshin Naidu- HSB Technologies
3. Anindita Basu- Integra Microsystems
4. Arun Martin- Bally Technologies
5. Bibhudatta Mohapatra- Intergra
6. D.Hemadri- Sun Microsystems
7. Joy M J- TCS
8. S.Gopal- Consultant
9. Benazir Hussain- Metalearn Services
10.Rishi Rajpal-Metalearn Services
11.G Raghu-Metalearn Services
12.Shabith Prabhakar-Metalearn Services
13.Ajit Kumar-Metalearn Services
14.K Anantha Raman-Metalearn Services
15.Rajlakshmi Borthakur-Infosys
16.Aunindra Sinha- Infosys
17.Vidya Lakshmi-
18.Shwetha Shashidharan- SAP Labs
19.Dhanish P Bhaskar- Fomax
20.Ramesh-GE
21.Pradeep L.N- Metalearn Services
22.Prabhat Ramesh- Four-C
23.Gururaj BS-ADOBE
24.Surag R- Honewell
25.Jilna Surag- Freelancher
26.Shashi Prabha- TCS
27.Banurekha Balaji- Honeywell
28.Blessy Thomas- Citec
29.Vikash Kumar- Cognizant
30.Saseendran K- Proteans
31.Manoj Potdar-Proteans
32.L.Chelladurai- ABB Global Services Ltd
33.Sreeram MV-ADOBE
34.Rajdeep Gupta-Infosys

The meetup started at 10.35 am and the agenda was "Developing interactive content". After a quick round of introduction by everyone, Rajdeep requested the speaker Preran to initate the discussion.

• Preran who has 7 years experience in Technical Communication and Web Design, started off with an introduction explaining-Learning, Various types of Learners, Interactive Learning for Simulation etc.

• After that Preran discussed Adobe Captivate's TM features like adding interactive tools e.g. text box, mouseclock. He showed how to record presentations (for example, a demo), and explained the multiple output formats for publishing.

• Preran also showed us how to create a quiz question, and the various quiz types that can be created using quiz templates for assessing user at the end of any training presentation.

• After that, Sreeram M V, Product Manager for Adobe Captivate interacted with participants on the Captivate usage. He responded to the user's queries related to Captivate, which they face during projects. The discussion was lively with users providing feedback on the Captivate tool. The participants also tried to clarify questions posed by each other.

The session concluded at around 1 pm with some informal one-one interactions.

Click here to view the photos http://techwriter.meetup.com/2/photos/?photoAlbumId=177937&photoId=1602283

Also, the meetup presentation is available for downloading at http://techwriter.meetup.com/2/files/

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