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March Meeting Announcement
DITA: Content Strategy for the Enterprise
with
Michael Priestley
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Location: Thomson Reuters, 3 Times Square
Time: Registration and networking starts at 5:30 pm
Dear: Brian
We are pleased to announce that Michael Priestley will be presenting at our monthly meeting. He will be speaking about DITA: Content Strategy for the Enterprise and how standardized content and taxonomy initiatives such as DITA are changing the way we think of content across industries, disciplines, and media.
Michael Priestley is the lead DITA atrchitect for IBM, and coeditor of the OASIS DITA 1.0 and 1.1 specifications. He is an experienced information and XML architect, and has presented and published proplifically on information development processes, information design principles, XML development techniques, structured authoring and Web 2.0, and, of course, DITA. He is currently supporting new DITA projects and working on DITA 1.2.
Michael Priestley is co-editor of the DITA Specification, and IBM's representative on the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. He is one of DITA's original architects at IBM and is currently coordinating taxonomy initiatives across several IBM communities. He has written numerous papers on subjects such as hypertext navigation, singlesourcing, and interfaces to dynamic documents. He is currently working on XML and XSL for help and documentation management. You can read his blog at http://dita.xml.org/blog/25.
Note that the presenter will be virtual. Michael lives in Toronto and will be presenting via Webex.
Feel free to pass this email on to others you believe might be interested in attending. |
Location
Place:
Thomson Reuters, Millenium Conference Room
3 Times Square
New York, NY 10036
646.223.4000
Date/Time:
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Registration, Dinner and Networking: 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Program: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Registration will end for onsite and virtual on Monday, 3/22, at 5:00 pm.
Be sure to bring a picture ID to show security at the main entrance. You must RSVP and be on the list at security. No walk-ins will be allowed.
Costs (click one to pay by credit card):
Dinner/Networking-STC Member: $20.00
For virtual - connection details will go out to everyone who RSVPs no later than 5:00 pm on Monday, 3/22. |
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