Montreal Techwriter Forum Posting Rules (updated August 12th 2005) ======================================= Greetings! This is your monthly reminder of the...
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Feb 1, 2006 3:57 pm
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In a new two-part white paper from The Rockley Group and Blast Radius, the authors map out many of the things you need to do to prepare for long-term DITA...
Good morning all. It is the beginning of the year and my company's new management team wants our documentation group to come up with hard numbers to ...
jeffrparmenter wondered: <<It is the beginning of the year and my company's new management team wants our documentation group to come up with hard numbers to...
Greetings, PWAC is hosting the Canadian Freelance Union (CFU) meeting February 22, 7.30 pm at the Atwater Library. Thanks for reading about it Tom Bauer ...
My employer Coreco Inc. (DALSA Coreco, www.imaging.com) has a position posted on Jobboom since we lost our part time writer and I can not do it all on...
Hi. My office is switching from Microsoft Visual Source Safe to SubVersion. Has anyone ever used SubVersion? If so - any advice you can offer would greatly be...
Hello: We have just posted a job on Monster.ca for a Jr. Technical Writer to join our training team. Skura Corporation is located in Mississauga, ON, and...
[MODERATOR NOTE: You should try contacting this person and ask a few pertinent questions about this position before sending your CV. Jobs from India sent...
Greetings! Is there some kind of way to prepare a Word document so that it can be converted to the Frame format with a minimum of fuss (ie: reassigning all the...
Hi John: It helps if your style sheet and template all use the same words i.e.: normal for normal, Heading 1 for Heading 1, yada, yada, yada. You can either...
St. Ignatius Publishing
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Feb 12, 2006 8:46 pm
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in addition to style names matching, make sure graphics are imported by reference and not embedded. that will save you a tonne of time as well... cheers, ... ...
STC EVENT: "Researching While You Write" with Manuel Gordon You can't write about technology you don't understand. Manny Gordon will explain what you must...
Hi everyone, We hesitate between hiring a translator and have our manual translated externally by a company. Do you have a rough idea of the annual average...
Sahakian, Diane (Laval)
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Feb 14, 2006 2:36 am
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Diane Sahakian wonders: <<We hesitate between hiring a translator and have our manual translated externally by a company. Do you have a rough idea of the...
Hi Diane, Translators rarely charge by the hour. They charge by the word. If you're talking about having a technical manual to be translated into French,...
Hello, A friend of mine is a good freelance translator (English to French). When I asked her your question, she answered: "The annual salary depends on the...
Luisa Di Meglio
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Feb 15, 2006 6:03 pm
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Webinar: Global Information Management Success at Siemens Medical Solutions Join Frank Gilbane, publisher of The Gilbane Report, for an online web conference...
SiberLogic is giving away several tickets to the DITA 2006 conference, the first US conference to focus solely on the OASIS Darwin Information Typing...
Greetings! This is an off-topic post, but I have a friend who used to do the shipping for Hewlitt-Packard, but he was laid-off some time ago. I had found him...
Dave Hickey
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Feb 16, 2006 2:24 pm
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Hello, I am looking into taking the technical writing program at Concordia's Cont.Ed dept this spring. I have always had a passion for writing and I would...
Greetings, I was "googled" by a friend over the weekend and was very surprised to see that I now have a profile at www.zoominfo.com which was "automatically...
Hi Poppy, I just looked myself up... I don't know how they generate this... But they have me educated in France and working in IT at 3 years old, oh and...
Good morning. Search engine watch wrote up a report on Zoominfo a while ago. http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3494046 Zoominfo's nothing to...
The folks at The Rockley Group have announced that as of this morning, the archives of The Rockley Report are open to all. This is a valuable resource jam...
Montreal Techwriter Forum Posting Rules (updated August 12th 2005) ======================================= Greetings! This is your monthly reminder of the...
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STC EVENT: "Personas and the Five W’s — Discovering What to Write" with Geoff Hart Join Geoff Hart as he discusses how to use the new tool of personas to...
Just a quick reminder...I'll be speaking at the Toronto STC Conference - "Preparing for the Content Management Tipping Point" and wanted to encourage other...
Hi all, I'm on the search for a new job. Anyone out there know of jobs coming up for technical writing/editing in the near future in Montreal? It's been a...