If you haven't already booked yet but plan to attend, note that early bird bookings close this coming Friday, October 24. If you don't attend, you'll be missing: Irene Wong, the master of extremely entertaining presentations. Irene has been cajoled into letting us into some of her secrets and an insiders tip is that you'll learn, not only about presentations, but some ideas for improving your technical communication skills as well. You simply must not miss Irene's presentation! XML hasn't been forgotten. Greg Baker takes us on a journey that starts with What does it mean to me? We cannot afford to ignore the advent of XML. It's everywhere! Techwriter Placements staff will be on hand to discuss any issues you have regarding employment - or lack of it, and Kathryn Knight will be visiting to let us know how to acquire a Graduate Diploma of Technical Communication via the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's distance learning program. Friday's lunch time session includes a demonstration, and more, of the Mentor software. The Society's proposed Accreditation plan will be unveiled. This could affect you, so come and see what you think! You will then have the opportunity to comment and perhaps influence the final outcome. And don't forget the great prizes: a Tactics Web course, a copy of Acrobat Professional, the latest Jean Weber book and Mary Morel's book Promote Your Business. There's also an Ark group magazine and a copy of MultiLingual Computing & Technology for everyone. We'd love to see you at the conference! Please go to www.astcnsw.org.au for prices and details. Don't delay as there are very few places - or days - remaining. ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************