Technical Communication UK 2012

The UK's leading technical communication event!

37 speakers

39 sessions

Day 1 Tuesday 2nd October 2012

• 11:00am Getting Down and Dirty with Accessibility and Usability

  presented by Karen Mardahl

• 11:00am Information Design 101

  presented by Robert Hempsall

• 11:00am The Golden Rules Redux

  presented by Leah Guren

• 2:30pm Understanding eBooks: Standards, Devices, and Essential Considerations

  presented by Scott Abel

• 2:30pm How the British Standards on Web Accessibility - BS 8878 - Can Help Your Website Appeal to Its Widest Possible Audience

  presented by Jonathan Hassell

• 2:30pm Quality Across Borders: Practical Measures to Ensure Best-Value Documentation in Global Technology Businesses

  presented by Veronica Broughton-Shaw

Day 2 Wednesday 3rd October 2012

• 9:10am A Fish Tale: Improve your Career by Watching Fish!

  presented by Leah Guren

• 10:10am Why Would We Want To Talk To Customers Or Them To Us?

  presented by Ian Ampleford and Peter Jones

• 10:10am Selling Yourself As A Technical Author

  presented by Bryan Lade

• 10:10am The User Guide Versus the Intuitive Product

  presented by Andrew Marlow

• 11:10am The Evolution of Translation Tools and its Impact on User Accessibility

  presented by Tom Gannon

• 11:10am The Hairball of Content

  presented by Ray Gallon

• 11:10am It's Not You, It's Us: How Design Reviews Can Make You Better at Visual Design

  presented by Matt Pierce

• 12:10pm A Style Guide for DITA Authoring

  presented by Tony Self

• 12:10pm Bringing Help in From the Cold

  presented by Jane Toon

• 12:10pm Self-Service Support Starts in the UI

  presented by rachel potts

• 2:30pm The Future of TechComm is Socially Enabled and Embedded

  presented by Julian Murfitt

• 2:30pm CPD - Why Should I Bother?

  presented by Alison Peck

• 2:30pm A Five-Stage Process for Online Social Network Change

  presented by Makayla Lewis

• 3:30pm Reshaping Text for Tablets and Mobile Devices: Optimizing Content for the Small Screen

  presented by maxwellhoffmann

• 3:30pm Selecting a Digital Asset Management System for Your Organisation

  presented by Warren Singer and Gerry Cavander

• 3:30pm Internationalization as an Accessibility Issue

  presented by Ray Gallon, Robert Hempsall, Karen Mardahl and Kai Weber

• 4:30pm It's All About Structure! Why Structured Content Is Increasingly Becoming A Necessity, Not An Option

  presented by Scott Abel

Day 3 Thursday 4th October 2012

• 9:00am What Do Technical Support Want From Technical Communicators?

  presented by Lee Mullin

• 9:00am Sustainability and Information Development

  presented by Tom Dumic

• 9:00am Wordpress and Web Accessibility

  presented by Graham Armfield

• 10:00am Collaboration and Community: Lessons From Open Source Projects

  presented by Janet Swisher

• 10:00am Beyond the Comfort Zone: Today, You Will Not Be Writing A Help File

  presented by Rob Scott-Norton

• 10:00am Function, Affordance, and the "How To"

  presented by Charlotte Branth Claussen

• 11:00am Letters From The Editor

  presented by David Farbey

• 11:00am What Does the iPad Mean for Technical Authors?

  presented by Ellis Pratt

• 11:00am Web Accessibility and Digital Inclusion

  presented by grant broome

• 1:00pm Social Media and Documentation: What Could Go Wrong?

  presented by Diego Schiavon

• 1:00pm The Future is Here - Multipurpose, Multimedia, Multichannel Technical Communication

  presented by Ankur Jain

• 1:00pm Is It Possible to Predict User Questions?

  presented by Jonatan Lundin

• 2:00pm Content Quality: Clarity and Cost Savings Start at the Source!

  presented by Berry Braster

• 2:00pm Metadata: Why Should Technical Communicators Care?

  presented by Nolwenn Kerzeho

• 2:00pm Open Session: Have Your Say!

• 3:00pm Adaptability: The True Key to Accessibility and Usability?

  presented by Karen Mardahl

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