Conference 2005 - The costs and benefits of communication
The ISTC Conference for 2005 was on 23, 24 & 25 September.
Venue
The
Royal Court Hotel
Tamworth Road, Keresley
Coventry CV7 9JG
Programme and papers
The programme is available
in PDF format.
Sponsors and exhibitors
AuthorIT were represented at the conference by their UK resellers - PDA. PDA
is an experienced provider of documentation services, and the authorised UK
reseller of AuthorIT, the leading single-source documentation and content
management system.
The full suite of AuthorIT products were showcased on the PDA conference
stand, together with the AuthorIT training and support options on offer. Barry
Halford and Rose Hilder, both AuthorIT certified consultants, will be on-hand
to answer questions and to give program demonstrations.
AuthorIT provides an end-to-end solution for single-source authoring, managing,
localising and publishing to a range of different formats. The same source
material can be used for creating print documents, on-line help, presentation
slides and web content.
Sponsor of Documentation Awards Class 2b - Creation & Web Delivery
of Non-Technical Information.
Plain Words provides technical writing and recruitment services to a wide
variety of industries and to the public sector. During our highly successful
14-year history we have developed our portfolio to encompass related services
such as public and private training courses, bids and proposals training/consultancy,
custom template development and VBA coding.
We specialise in creating documentation, both on-line and printed formats.
Our clients can leave the whole process to us - designing and planning,
writing, managing and QA, printing and translation - or they can 'pick
and mix' from our range of services.
Our writing skills training courses are extremely popular. Whether our clients
are writing letters, reports, business cases, proposals, web content, marketing
material or technical documents, we can teach them how to communicate expertly
every time. With an extensive range of courses to choose from, at venues around
the UK or tuition at clients' premises, we ensure that everyone learns
in a comfortable, productive way.
We have a wide customer base in the UK and in continental Europe. Our clients
come back to us time after time because they trust our commitment to a quality
service. Our success is based on selecting the best team for each project
by blending excellent management skills with the key expertise of our technical
authors, bid writers, programmers, trainers and course developers.
We have a core team of authors and trainers and a qualified database of over
1,500. We are always interested to hear from people with a wide variety of
experience in documentation or training who would like to join us.
Plain Words - The Documentation People
For over ten years, SiberLogic has been a vendor of XML-based solutions for
the production of technical publications and training materials, and has provided
solutions to enterprises that look to formulate, personalize and transfer
knowledge contained in their technical documentation. Our flagship product,
SiberSafe, is the premier XML/RDF/OWL Semantic Content Management system for
technical publications professionals designed to facilitate authoring, collection,
reuse, assembly, review, publishing and translation of structured content
and documents.
SiberSafe facilitates the development of sophisticated information products
that combine the features of a printed technical manual, an interactive technical
manual (IETM), an electronic performance support system (EPSS) and a computer-based
training system (CBT) using state-of-the-art AI-driven semantic web technology.
SiberSafe allows organizations to capture, package and deliver technical knowledge
from those who own it, such as product designers, to those who need it, such
as operators, support specialists and maintenance engineers. SiberSafe provides
its ROI by dramatically improving the efficiency of both the content/knowledge
development and retrieval processes. With customer installations serving hundreds
of users in the industries of defense, aerospace, finance, manufacturing and
technology, SiberSafe is recognized as a class-leading, sophisticated yet
cost-effective solution for managing the content and knowledge within technical
publications. |
