2004 Newsletter archive

December (full)

Details of date changes to the 2005 Conference; reports on Conference 2004 from the President and from a member's view; Communicator editorial calendar for 2005; latest news on events and training.

November (full)

ISTC Award winners 2004; European Information Conference 2004; Visions of Science Awards 2004; what technical writers are up to these days; ISTC Midlands branch; software snippets; technical illustration news; news from The Society of Indexers.

October (full)

London area group meetings; Society of Indexers Conference 2004; ISTC Conference session previews; software news; Robohelp for Framemaker, events, Macromedia MX days - Technology forums for designers and developers; the back page.

September (full)

Starting up an area group; Conference session previews; professional development; Communicator survey.

August (full)

Civil Aviation Authority affiliates; Ireland Area Group; Unsolicited commercial email; Plain English Campaign jubilee; Documentation awards; Conference session previews; tekom; localisation; INTECOM; OASIS DITA; ISO 18019 checklists; Idiom Worldserver SDK; LUCAS 3.0; Passolo 5.0; RapidTranslation 4.0; SDLX 2004; SDLTermBase Online; Trados 2 TMX; STAR Transit XV; TRADOS roadshow; Unicode CDLR 1.1 and LDML 1.1; Lingenio.

July (full)

Trading Standards Institute Media Awards; Conference 2004 - presentation summaries; software news; The Moving Finger continued.

June (full)

Summary of the next edition of Communicator; Conference 2004 - presentation summaries; Irish Society of Technical Communicators; Council news; Nicola Humphreys from Imprimatur writes on the enlargement of the EU.

May (full)

Conference 2004 - Indexing session; Horace Hockley Award; ISTC London Area Group - Matthew Ellison's presentation and May meeting; New Middle East Group; More on Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors; Miles Richardson links; SecureDoc project - Guideline for Usable and Safe Operating Manuals for Consumer Goods; European Information Development Conference - call for papers; Sheffield-Hallam University - update and two dissertation synopses; New booklet - Search Engine Optimisation - A Positive Influence on Web Accessibility; Disability Rights Commission report The Web: Access and Inclusion for Disabled People; LinkUp Europe 2004; Death of laundry worker Paul Clegg; Interview with Rob Frankland; OpenOffice evangelists; LinKit 3.2; Keep Your Children Safe on the Internet; The Future of English; SDXL 2004 released; Review of Managing Enterprise Content; Sheffield meeting.

April (full)

London Area Group (Ellis Pratt); Oxford Reference Online; Letters (BSI Standards and EC Directives); ISTC-tekom meeting; TCeurope AGM; Document Design Conference and abstracts; Sheffield Hallam University graduates and dissertation abstracts; Book review - Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors; Developing the Guidelines for Writing English-Language Technical Documentation for an International Audience; Sheffield meeting; Events - TecDoc-Net, Adobe Live, SfEP Annual Conference, Localization World Bonn; Translation tools - Catalyst 5.01, Language Weaver, Machinese, Multilizer 6.0, @promt 2004; Translation Budget Calculator; Maori dictionary; NEMLAR (Network for Euro-Mediterranean LAnguage Resources); FrameMaker on the Mac goes; AcroXchange; TurboCAD Version 10; Corel DESIGNER Professional SG; Mozilla 1.6; Firefox 0.8; Thunderbird 0.5; Gemini 5; Argus 5; Solid Converter PDF; LinKit!; N'kisi, the parrot (reprise); Presenting Numbers, Tables and Charts draw results; Why we're needed Part 8.

March (full)

Office holiday; Salary survey; London Area group; Oxford reference online; Standards offer; ISTC Handbook now for sale online; Taxing times; Sheffield meeting; Review - Presenting numbers, tables & charts; Emetrics summit; Colloquium for user-friendly product information; Managing enterprise content seminars; Storing CDs and DVDs; Emergency multilingual phrasebook; LinKit! review; VideoLAN; MindManager; Venus & Cupid.

February (full)

ISTC website redesign; London Area group; BS ISO/IEC 18019:2004 offer; Book review: Visualizing Technical Information; Association of British Science Writers; Colloquium for User-friendly Product Information; IIID summer academy - Social Information: Community and Cultural Information Design; 2004 International Summer Workshop: Culture and Web Design; Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Entrepreneurship; Conference: Dust or Magic: Work and Workmanship in Cyberia; Hype Gallery; Visions of Science 2004; N'kisi the parrot; Vocabulary of Positioning; Corporate website survey; Software review: Auto-text 3.5; CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12; Corel Designer Professional SG; Film: Love Object; Vinnie the cat; The Apostrophe Protection Society; Why we're needed Part 7.

January (full)

Oxford Reference Online service; Don Hinson steps down; Christmas draw results; London Area Group - report of January meeting; future meetings; Book Review - The Informability Manual; Alchemy Catalyst 5.0; Multicorpora MultiTrans 3.5; Passolo Visual XLIFF Component; Trados 6.5; Localisation Research Centre; free translation site; Bowne Global Solutions gets OMRON work; Events; Koppel-Argamon algorithm; Training course: Science and the Creative Image; Dialect sites; Glossary of book parts; Ideas that Matter; TCeurope; Royal Irish Academy prizes; Metamath symbols; Hebrew fonts; Mellel 1.7; AuthorIT Localization Manager; RoboHelp X5; RoboInfo 5.0; Scansoft PDF Converter; pdf995 suite; PrintToPDF; finalRender Service Pack 2; DiMAGE Messenger 2.0 Plug-In; Adobe Creative Suite; E-cyclopedia; Banished words; Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation and Oration; Donald Rumsfeld (reprise); Patrice Moore; Zachary Tutin; localisation faux pas.

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