Our 2007 spring event takes place in the Birmingham on Saturday 10th March at The Orange Studio.

Fifteen years ago, few of us had heard of the internet. Now, most of us have our own website, or work for companies that do. But is that enough? Are we actually making effective use of the full range of internet tools and technologies that are currently available to us? Do we simply publish information to a static web site, or do we use our web presence to facilitate effective two-way communications with our clients? And if we are doing so today, do we understand the web tools that will be available to us tomorrow, or next year, or the year after that?

To help you keep up to date in this fast-changing field, STC UK are holding a one-day seminar on Saturday March 10th in the centre of Birmingham. Our venue will be The Studio, just 4 minutes walk from New Street station.

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10:00 for 10:30 start (refreshments on arrival)
10:30 - 11:30 Crawford Currie, Practical use of Wikis and Blogs in Industry
11:30 – 12:30 Workshop session
12:30 – 14:00 Buffet lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Ellis Pratt, Applying emerging web technologies to Tech Docs
15:00 – 16:00 Panel discussion
16:00 – 16:30 Wind down and feedback (refreshments provided)
16:30 Finish

Crawford Currie, C-dot Consultants
In a past life, senior consultant Crawford Currie was a technical manager with Motorola, the global telecoms company. While with Motorola, Crawford grew frustrated with the standard of the groupware and teamworking tools employed, at great expense, by the corporation. So he did something about it, introducing Motorola to the TWiki application server platform. On behalf of C-Dot, Crawford has been involved in a range of groupware consulting projects for companies throughout the world. He is the author of numerous patches and plugins for TWiki, and is a key contributor to the core platform.

Ellis Pratt, Cherryleaf
Ellis is Sales and Marketing Director for Cherryleaf, and he has over ten years experience working on documentation projects. He is an accomplished speaker on topics such as the future trends for user assistance, online Help and online communities. He is the author of "Tech Writing 2.0 - The application of Web 2.0 technologies to technical documentation" and "Network to Get Work". His philosophy is winning by sharing, connecting people to what they seek, networked businesses and people. The aim is to create a network of business professionals who support one another, learning, networking and trading.

Reserve your place today by emailing our Programme Manager, Richard Truscott, today! If you reserve your place with Richard you can pay in cash or by cheque at the door. Unfortunately, we cannot accept Credit/Debit Card payments on the day of the event.

If you wish, you can pay in advance using Paypal by selecting the following buttons. You can pay from an existing PayPal account, or with a Visa or MasterCard Credit or Debit Card.

• Price for STC Members £50 (please bring your PayPal receipt with you to the event) Note: students, ISTC members, and members of other organisations affiliated to INTECOM are entitled to register at the STC Member rate.
  
  
• Price for Non-Members £75 (please bring your PayPal receipt with you to the event)
  
  
• If you or your organisation would like to sponsor this event, please contact our Chapter Treasurer, David Farbey. You can use the button below to process your sponsorship using PayPal.
  
  

This event is taking place at the

The Orange Studio
Cannon Street
Birmingham
B2 5EP
0121 634 2800

Here are directions on how to get there.

Find out about accomodation at the Visit Birmingham web site