Society of Technical Writers Workshop on Author-it platform June 18, 2010

STC India Workshop at Pune: Introduction to Author-it
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This workshop is sponsored by Technowrites Pvt. Ltd (India)
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****Presenters: Mark Trotter and Makarand Pandit

This is a practical one-day workshop, aimed at technical writers, that
will teach you the skills required to start using the Author-it
enterprise authoring platform competently.

Mark Trotter is the Managing Director of Author-it’s newest office in
Dubai. Mark has been involved with Author-it since 1999, and has used
it for and managed it in various applications. He is an experienced
Author-it trainer and consultant. Mark brings a wealth of knowledge to
the Author-it community in the region and has recently completed a
Graduate Diploma in Information Design. He is passionate about the
information management field and feels that education is a life-long
pursuit.

Makarand (Mak) Pandit is the managing director and chief executive
officer of Technowrites Pvt. Ltd.(India). He has conducted corporate
training for clients in India, Singapore, UAE, and Malaysia. Mak also
works as a visiting faculty with leading institutions and
Universities. As a trainer, Mak has experience of more than 8000
training hours and is an award-winning speaker. He has more than 17
years experience in Technical Communication, and has completed more
than 200 projects for more than 70 clients globally. Mak was the owner
of Technical Writers of India mailing list www.twin-india.org for six
years. He is also a senior member of Society for Technical
Communication, and a founder member of STC India Chapter. Mak has
served STC India chapter in various positions (including Chapter
President in 2005). Mak completed his graduation in Electronics
Engineering and Post Graduation in Marketing Management.

In this workshop, Mark and Mak will introduce you to Authorit, and
help you understand how to author, manage, publish and deliver
documentation.using Authorit.
For more details about the workshop, see the section ‘Agenda’ below.
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****When? Saturday, June 19, 2010

****Where? Hotel Deccan Royale, Next to Woodland Showroom, Near Sambhaji
Park, J M Road, Deccan Gymkhana, Pune – 411 004 Phone: 97665 93586
(Mahendar) 020 4102 4000 (Desk)

****Time? 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

****Cost? * FREE. Registrations are limited to 55 seats ONLY.
* Lunch arrangements will be made, and it is FREE.

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****Note: * Please get your laptop with you so that the evaluation
copy of Author-it can be installed on it, and you can work on it.

* Mark will be conducting the session remotely.

****Benefits: * All participants will be given a Certificate of Participation
from Author-it

* One attendee will win a lucky gift of Author-it license valued at $1200.

****Registration: To register, write to Ramesh Aiyyangar at
or call at: 09730172644

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****AGENDA
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INTRODUCTION
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WELCOME: Introduction of participants & Networking
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TEA BREAK
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****PART 1
1. Overview of the workshop (Mak)
2. Overview of Content Management (Mark)
3. Introducing Author-it and Important Concepts (Mak)
4. Installing Author-it on participant machines (Mak)
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LUNCH BREAK
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****PART 2
5. Concept of Books & their Use (Mak)
- Book Properties
- Book Characteristics
[Hands-on Exercise: Getting Started with Author-it]

6. Objects the Powerhouse of Author-it (Mak)
- Content Objects
- Book Objects
- Content Definition Objects
- Special Use Objects
[Hands-on Exercise: Using Content Objects]

7. Working with Topic Objects (Mak)
- Concept of Topic
- Characteristics of Topics
- Topic and the re-usable unit
- Book Objects
[Hands-on Exercise: Creating Topics with Content]

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TEA BREAK
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****PART 3
8. Special Objects (Mak)
[Hands-on Exercise: Using Table of Contents, Index]

9. Templates and Media Objects (Mak)
[Hands-on Exercise: Using existing Templates]

10. Reuse and Conditionality (Mak and Mark)
[Hands-on Exercise: Generating different outputs from same source,
studying what you got]

11. Structured Authoring (Mak and Mark)
· Advantages
· How it is implemented in Author-it
[Hands-on Exercise: Structured Author-it in practice]

12. Importing Objects (Mak)
- The import engine
- How the process works
[Hands-on Exercise: Import a Word document]

Official Website: http://www.stc-india.org/2010/06/stc-india-workshop-at-pune-introduction-to-author-it-saturday-june-19-2010/