2003 Newsletter archive

December (full)

New Oxford online service; 2004 membership subscriptions; Salford Translations affiliates; European Information Development Conference / tekom Conference; ISTC Conference 2003; Conference report: CVs and getting work; London Area Group: January meeting; INTECOM site relaunched; SecureDoc project; AbilityNet; Book review: Type & typography; Book review: Eats,Shoots and Leaves; Tufte clubs PowerPoint; How members browse; MacDraft 5.5 Quartz Edition; ACDSee 6.0; Maxon Cinema 4D; Donald Rumsfeld wins award; Where's it @; Why we're needed, Part 6.

November (full)

Oxford Reference Online trial; Agency profile - Alanti; London Area Group web page; ISTC Office Xmas holidays; Membership renewals; Winter Communicator preview; Adobe Reader; IEEE PCS Conference, Limerick 2005; CASCaID video; BSI seminars; ISTC Conference - Peter Greenfield's welcome speech; Book review - Design and Typography in Easy Steps; Book review - Technical Writing for Dummies; TCeurope award; This Is Broken website; BreakTheChain.org; RoboHelp versus WebWorks; Veredus.

October (full)

ISTC Documentation Awards, Horace Hockley Award, Visions of Science report.

September (full)

ISTC Conference previews and sponsors; London Area group; Autumn Communicator; Horace Hockley Award; Broadvision Quicksilver (Interleaf); Mike Unwalla and Gareth Owens team up; Salary Survey; Plain Words affiliates; Junking junk mail - the electoral register; New single sourcing tool - Veredus from Rascal Software; New Zealander Margery Watson heads INTECOM; Peterborough Technical Communications courses now run by Mekon Learning; Google HTML versions of the Newsletter; Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness; SubEthaEdit; Save us all from AutoReply hell; DTI document - Telework Guidance.

August (full)

ISTC Conference previews; Documentation Awards; Translation survey; EU directives on waste (WEEE and ROHS); W3C Patent Policy; World Summit on the Information Society declaration; US school grades; Indian technical writers; Palace Hotel, Buxton; Book review - XML Internationalization and Globalization; London Area Group St. Bride Printing Library visit; Sheffield-Hallam MA in Technical Communication; Slayer Slang - A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon; The Urban Dictionary; The Official Hip Hop Dictionary; MAXit Checker; European Information Development Conference.

July (full)

ISTC Conference 2003 - presentation previews; Documentation awards; Short book reviews; Training courses; Events; Fight management-speak; ISTC Midland group; Cherryleaf affiliates to the ISTC; ISO9001 success for John Crossley.

June (full)

ISTC Conference 2003; Documentation Awards; Book Review: The Techniques of Instruction; Proposed membership changes; RoboHelp X4; PDA affiliates; ISTC and tax; ISTC website updates; JavaHelp 2.0; ISO 18019; Worst manual contest; Ridiculous instructions; Why we're needed - 5; SecureDoc; Project management templates; Forum 2003.

May (full)

ISTC Conference 2003; Buxton; Palace Hotel; Book Review: Production for graphic designers; Forum 2003; ISTC website updates; TCeurope colloquia; Adam Osborne's death; New advertising agent; Adobe events; Useful tools: JR Screen Ruler, UltraEdit, PawPrint; CPTSC-ATTW Education Roundtable; Acrobat 6.0 released; Why we're needed - 4; 'Cool features' survey; Bowne Global affiliates.

April (full)

ISOLDE project; Job satisfaction survey; Document Design Conference 2004; mif2go software offer; CADCAMNet; Forum 2003; Trends survey; US job market; WordPerfect Office 11; Visions of Science Awards; Routes of English; XML UK; Experience Corps; Arbortext and Placeware online seminars; Siemens' sensibility; Why we're needed - 3; Book Review: How to write a training manual.

March (full)

London Area group; Job satisfaction survey; ISTC Conference 2003; Documentation Awards; Membership news; Salary survey (UK); Salary survey (USA); Compendium of Careers Information for Armed-Service Leavers; BSI book: A Guide to Computer-based Management Systems PD0020:2002; COMTEC 2003; Chicago Guide to Communicating Science; Data protection scam; Localisation seminars; Society of Indexers news: BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row and new guide Indexing the medical sciences; TCeurope - TecDoc and SecureDoc colloquia; Doc-to-help 6.5; FrameMaker plugin for RoboHelp; AuthorIT 4 launched; Film - The Technical Writer; University news; Don Hinson lecture; Word macros; Word's quagmire; Technology East; IT directory; Book Review: How to design and post information on a corporate Intranet site; Domain name invoice scam.

January/Feruary 2003 (full)

London Area group; Information Mapping - an author's view; Reusing and recycling old equipment; Forum 2003; 2002's new words; 2002's banished words; Stella awards; Business bank accounts - time to switch?; Why we're needed - 1 and 2; SecureDoc questionnaire; Changes to UK copyright law.

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