atw: Re: Tony Self, presentation in North Sydney, 14 August

  • From: Christine Kent <cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:07:43 +1000

Guys and Tony if you are lurking

Will this talk be mostly about tech writer qualifications - which I am not
particularly interested in, or XML authoring which I am currently
particularly interested in?

If the latter I may be able sell my attendance to my current employer, and
thus take the really long lunch necessary to come into North Sydney.



On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:54 PM, SUNTER Bede <Bede.SUNTER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> **
>
> This will be a lunchtime (12.30 to 1.30) talk on Tuesday 14 August. It
> will be in North Sydney, but the venue is yet to be announced.
>
> We need an idea of numbers to expect to decide the venue. So please reply
> off-line (bede.sunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) and let me know you want to attend,by 
> CoB
> Thursday 9 August. We will let you know when the venue is announced.
>
> Details of Tony's presentation
>  ‘*Any colour ... so long as it is black*’
>
> Henry Ford revolutionised car manufacture when his production line
> replaced the method where cars were hand-made by artisans. Famously, Henry
> Ford offered the Model T in “any colour... so long as it is black”. There
> are parallels in technical communication. Many technical communicators are
> still clinging to hand-crafted documentation, creating custom layouts and
> “tweaking” formatting, when new modular methods are vastly more efficient.
> The age of offering documents in any “colour” the customer wants is over.
> And just as car manufacture has long since moved to automation, technical
> communication too must embrace automation, with XML providing the
> technology platform to make this possible. In this thought-provoking talk,
> Tony will describe the parallels and discuss future directions for the
> profession. He will also talk briefly about the technical communicator
> certification system developed by tekom, the German professional
> association for technical communication.
>
> *About Tony Self*
>  <http://astcnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/tony_self_melb2.jpg>
> Based in Melbourne, Dr Tony Self has over 30 years of experience as a
> technical communicator. For over 20 years, Tony has worked in the areas of
> online help systems, computer-based training, and electronic documents. In
> 1993, he founded HyperWrite, a company providing training and consultancy
> in structured authoring, Help systems, DITA, and technology strategy. Tony
> completed his PhD in semantic mark-up languages in 2011, and his book The
> DITA Style Guide was published in the same year. He is a member of the
> OASIS DITA Technical Committee (and chair of the DITA Help Subcommittee),
> and is an adjunct teaching fellow at Swinburne University. Tony won the
> ISTC Horace Hockley award in 2011. He recently started as Director of
> Training for TCTrainNet.
>
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Christine

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