DocTrain West 2008

Program-at-a-Glance

Day 1 (May 6, 2008)
Pre-conference Workshops

Time	Session	Speaker	Track
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM	[Workshop] Simplified Technical English: How Standardization of Content Will Reduce Costs and Facilitate Quality Assurance	Berry Braster	Pre-Conference Workshops
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM	[Workshop] An Overview of RoboHelp 7	Neil Perlin	Pre-Conference Workshops
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM	[Workshop] Content Engineering: Workshop	Joseph Gollner	Pre-Conference Workshops
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM	[Workshop] Single Sourcing with the Technical Communication Suite: Using FrameMaker to Manage Print and Help Authoring	Matt Sullivan	Pre-Conference Workshops

Day 2 (May 7, 2008)

Time	Session	Speaker	Track
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	Bringing the Video Revolution to Technical Communication	RJ Jacquez	Keynote
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM	XML in the Wilderness	Joseph Gollner	Keynote
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Manage Your Messaging with Machine-Assisted Editing and Large Scale Sentence-level Reuse	Kent Taylor	Content Reuse
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Understanding Component Content Management	Ann Rockley	Component Content Management
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Wikis Are Wonderful, or Are They? A Real World Story of Using Wikis For User Information	Alan Porter	User Assistance
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	From Novice to Geek: Getting Started with WordPress	Tom Johnson	Blogs and Wikis
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Innovate, Collaborate, Create: Component Content Management Steps Onto the Web 2.0 Stage	Steve Davis & Mark Patla	Software Demonstrations
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	How Do You Grow Wiki Use?	Stewart Mader	Blogs and Wikis
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	The Single Sourcing House: Building, Expanding, Maintaining, and Living in the Single Sourcing House	Heidi Sandler	Content Reuse
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	A Comparison of Three Visual Help Authoring Tools	Neil Perlin	User Assistance
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Making XML Technology Accessible: Service Manual Application Built on DITA	Brendan Boyle	Software Demonstrations
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	From Planning to Publishing: How Business Objects Migrated Documentation to DITA One Step at a Time	Dave Holmes	Component Content Management
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Writing Reusable Content to Support Content Models	Pamela Kostur	Content Reuse
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Putting Everything Back Together Again: Delivering Effective Information Products	Joseph Gollner	Component Content Management
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	“Wiki Roundtripping? Structured Authoring? How Do They Co-Exist?”	Stewart Mader & Anne Gentle	Blogs and Wikis
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Using DITA for Online Help	Alan Houser	User Assistance
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	MadCap Software: Cost Effective Content Reuse	Mike Hamilton	Software Demonstrations
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Documentation Planning and Library Design in a Web 2.0 World	Nicoletta Bleiel	User Assistance
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML and DITA	Jeff Deskins	Content Reuse
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Meet the Bloggers: Not Nearly as Disasterously Funny as the Movie	Anne Gentle & Darren Barefoot & Scott Nesbitt & Aaron Davis & Tom Johnson	Blogs and Wikis
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Content Management Successes: Separating Fact from Fantasy	Rahel Bailie	Component Content Management
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Breathing Life into your Technical Documents using Adobe AIR and the Technical Communication Suite	RJ Jacquez	Software Demonstrations

Day 3 (May 8, 2008)

Time	Session	Speaker	Track
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Once Content is in XML. Now what?: Learn How Dynamic Publishing Can Help You Improve the Re-use and Value of XML Content	Joshua Duhl	Keynote
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Document Engineering in User Experience Design	Robert Glushko	Keynote
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Social Media 101: Now Everyone's a Technical Writer	Darren Barefoot	Keynote
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM	Using Collaborative Tools for Virtual Team Management: Ensuring Productivity in a Web 2.0 World	Sherry Michaels	Collaboration
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM	DITA for Business Documents	Ann Rockley & Michael Boses	DITA, DITA, DITA
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM	Changing the Rules of the Game for the Benefit of the User: A Kobayashi Maru Approach to Developing User-Centered Training Content	Joe Sokohl	Training
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM	Extending the Value of Content in Enterprise Systems with Web Content Management	Eric Gott	Software Demonstrations
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM	Beyond L10N and G11N—Communicating with Everybody: How To Create and Manage Content Assets for a Global Audience	Maxwell Hoffmann	Localization and Translation
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	How an Author and Editor Used a Wiki to Write a Book	Stewart Mader	Collaboration
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Taking Our Information Assets to the Next Level: Kyocera Case Study	Ann Adams	Localization and Translation
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	On the Road to Modular Training Content: A Case Study	Linda Urban	Training
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	See Dynamic Publishing in Action!: Author Content Once and Automatically Publish it to the Web and Print	Joshua Duhl	Software Demonstrations
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	DocBook vs. DITA: Will The Real Standard Please Stand Up?	Teresa Mulvihill	DITA, DITA, DITA
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	When Words Are Not Enough: Rich Media for Training and Documentation	Todd O’Neill	Training
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Extreme Content Makeover: Migrating Content to DITA	Joseph Gollner	DITA, DITA, DITA
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	The Many-Armed Starfish: Today and Tomorrow in Social Media	Darren Barefoot	Collaboration
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	The In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite for Microsoft Word and SharePoint	Michael Boses	Software Demonstrations
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	24 Ways to Shut Down The Application and Other Apocryphal Stories	David Ashton	Localization and Translation
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Using Task Modeler to Streamline DITA Content Development	Mark Wallis	DITA, DITA, DITA
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	What Technical Communicators Need to Know about Flash	Sarah O’Keefe	Training
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Velocity Translation Portal: On-Demand Localization Marketplace for a Global Community	Robert Pfremmer	Localization and Translation
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Beyond Authoring: Rich XML Collaboration with Xpress Author for Microsoft Word	Michael Boses	Collaboration
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Mapping the Entire Global Content Supply Chain: SDL Demonstration	David Ashton	Software Demonstrations
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM	Living Multiple Lives: The New Technical Communicator	B. Noz Urbina	Keynote

Day 4 (May 9, 2008)
Post-conference Workshops

Time	Session	Speaker	Track
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM	[Workshop] Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML: It's Easier Than You Have Been Told	Thomas Aldous	Post-Conference Workshops
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM	[Workshop] The Business of Experience Workshop: Hands-On Methods to Increase Your Influence	Jess McMullin	Post-Conference Workshops
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM	[Workshop] Introduction to XSL	Sarah O’Keefe	Post-Conference Workshops
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM	[Workshop] Making DITA Work For Your Data	Alan Houser	Post-Conference Workshops
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM	[Workshop] Writing for Reuse: Learning How To Write Modular Content for Reuse	Pamela Kostur	Post-Conference Workshops
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM	[Workshop] Adobe Captivate: The Swiss Army Knife of Visual Help Authoring	Neil Perlin	Post-Conference Workshops
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM	[Workshop] DITA Authoring and Publishing with XMetaL	Alan Houser	Post-Conference Workshops