DOCUMENTATION & TRAINING: THE USER EXPERIENCE COMES TO CANADA
APR 18-21, 2007 ~ Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Learn more: http://www.doctrain.com

The 8th Annual Documentation and Training Conference is going West!
After 8 successful years on the east coast, we're expanding our
offerings and will deliver our first ever west coast Documentation
and Training event this April in beautiful downtown Vancouver, BC,
Canada, just 140 miles from Seattle.

This event focuses on the increasing importance of the user
experience in our work as technical communication and training
professionals. Specifically, we focus our energies on the new tools
and emerging technologies that are changing customer expectations
including: structured blogging, wikis, user-generated content,
podcasting, hosted content management, YouTube, AJAX, Flex, the
Semantic Web, DITA, S1000D, experience design, information
architecture, and XML syndication. Each of these hot topics are
creating new career opportunities for technical communicators and
changing the expectations of the users we serve.

The workshops, presentations, and roundtable discussions we have
lined up for you are lead by the best and brightest practitioners in
our industry. Each presenter has committed to providing you with a
top-notch educational experience loaded with practical information
that you can use when you return to work.

Registration price includes FREE pre- and post-conference half-day
workshops (Adobe Captivate, the Darwin Information Typing
Architecture, Information Architecture, Taxonomy Development, and
Managing and Delivering Dynamic, Personalized Content). It also
includes a free membership in Content Management Professionals ($100
value, paid to CM Pros through conference funds), the international
content management community of practice.

Register by March 17th 2007 -- and book 2 nights at the Marriott
Pinnacle Vancouver conference hotel -- and receive an iPod Shuffle,
also FREE.

Whether you can attend the entire show or not, you'll want to stop
by our Technology Showcase -- it's free (thanks to the folks at
Adobe Systems and Astoria Software). Our Technology Showcase is a
one-stop shop for anyone looking for new software tools or services.
Software vendors and service providers will be on hand to
demonstrate their tools and tout their latest service offerings.
And, of course, there's free food (and later in the day -- cocktails
and music!)

Our keynote speaker, angel investor and structured content guru
Salim Ismail, rounds out the event. He will deliver an exciting and
thought-provoking message about the future of the XML
publish/subscribe model of content delivery and its impact on the
way we work today and in the near future. Some of the many featured
Canadian speakers include: Ann Rockley, Bernard Aschwanden, Rahel
Bailie, Emma Hamer and more.


Check out the schedule: http://www.doctrain.com

Questions? Contact Scott Abel at 317-466-1840 or via email
abelsp@....

Hope to see you there!