Bangalore Technical Writers Meetup-Supported by STC India at Misys on January 30,2010

Dear Members,

Happy New Year to all of you! Here are the details to this year' first meetup:

The Bangalore Technical Writers Meetup-Supported by STC India is pleased to announce a half-day learning session on January 30, 2010 at Misys Software Systems, Bangalore.

Misys is sponsoring this session.

Please make sure that you are present at the venue by 10:00 AM (latest) to avoid inconvenience to the speakers and the participants.

To ensure higher security for all the delegates, Misys mandates the following:
- Identity Card
- Business Card
- Online Confirmation Letter

Don't worry if you don't have all the items listed above, if you are having anyone of these, it should be fine to allow you inside the office premises.
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Both STC and non-STC members can attend the session for FREE. However, registration is MANDATORY. Please note that the registrations for the sessions close on January 28, 2010. For

registration, please drop in an email to rguptaz at gmail dot com.

You can read the details at http://techwriter.mee...
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Agenda
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10:00 AM – 10.30 AM – Registration
10:35 AM to 11:35 AM – "How content is created and consumed" by Peter Yorke
11:40 AM – 12:10 PM - Coffee Break
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM – "About Madcap Flare" by Venkatesh Iyengar

About the Presentations:
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Topic: "How content is created and consumed"

Synopsis: This presentation focuses on new trends in creating content and the blurring lines between marketing and technical communication. It talks about democratic creation of content,

transparency in communication and examines new trends in content dissemination. The presentation is designed to appeal to the tech writer, marketing manager and man on the street!!

Speaker: Peter Yorke is founder and independent consultant at Yorke Communications Private Limited and has around 20+ years of experience in branding, corporate communications, content

management, marketing, high-tech public relations, training and technical communication. Prior to starting Yorke Communications, he was the Vice President – Marketing and Communications

at Oracle Financial Services (formerly i-flex solutions). Peter' expertise includes Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internal Communications, Media Management, Branding, Name Change

Communication and so on. More details about the speaker: www.linkedin.com/in/peteryorke65

Topic: " About MadCap Flare"

Synopsis: MadCap Flare is a professional authoring software tool for technical writers, documentation specialists, and user assistance developers. Whether the writer is creating projects for

high-end digital print publishing, desktop publishing, help systems, or web-based online publishing, the writer has a complete set of professional help authoring and content development

tools.Authoring can be done in structured topic-based content development for powerful, and sophisticated information delivery. This documentation tool allows the writers to easily create,

manage and reuse content with conditional text, variables, snippets, outlines, and more. Please note that Venkatesg will talk about its important features, creating snippets, variables, and

generating output. The presentation will be for 45 minutes and Venkat proposes to reserve 15 minutes for answering the questions.

Speaker: Venkatesh Iyengar works for Consona Software, Bangalore as a Senior Technical Writer. He was earlier associated with Subex Systems, LogicaCMG, i2 Technologies/DELMIA, and

Symphony Services. Venkatesh has worked on diverse products and domains including telecom, CRM, SRM, PLM, and ERP. In a writing career spanning 10 years, Venkatesh has traveled

extensively and has delivered many types of user documentation to a varied audience. His hobbies include teaching financially-challenged children with learning tools and what he holds very

dear to his heart is leading team of friends to provide assistance to people undergoing oncological treatment.

Venue
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Misys Software Solutions (India) Pvt.Ltd,
3rd Floor, Saraswathi Conference Room,
Eagle Ridge, Embassy Golf Links Business Park,
Off Intermediate Ring Road, Koramangala
Bangalore 560071
Cell: 9900171161

Misys office is situated next to the CSC building and Opposite to the uSigma office.

You can also get the directions by clicking the following URL-
http://maps.google.co... wloc=A

We look forward to see all of you there.

Thanks & Regards
Rajdeep