Hi Technical Communicators,
The India chapter of Society for Technical Communication (STC) is organizing a learning session on 27 September(Saturday), 2014. Please visit STC India Website for more details on STC India Chapter.
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STC India Chennai: Learning Session – 27 September (Saturday), 2014
Venue Sponsor: KBuffer
Networking Break and Speaker Gifts Sponsor: KBuffer
The session is FREE for both STC and non-STC India members.
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Venue: KBuffer
Address: KBuffer, Shankar Business Space,
No:5, Nana Street, T.Nagar, Chennai – 600017, TamilNadu.
Landmark: Road adjacent to T. Nagar Head Post Office
Map: KBuffer, TNagar, Chennai – 600017
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Agenda
09:00 AM to 09:30 AM – Registrations
09:30 AM to 10:45 AM – Allied Careers for Technical Writers – Kamalakannan Srinivasan
10:45 AM to 11:00 AM – Q&A Session
11:00 AM to 11:30 AM – Networking Break
11:30 AM to 12:45 PM – Compliance Standards in Writing – Sundaram G M
12:45 PM to 01:00 PM – Q&A Session
01:00 PM to 01:15 PM – Closure
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About the Speakers
Kamalakannan Srinivasan (Kamal) has 19 years of experience in the IT industry of which the last 13 years were spent creating content for end-user documents, elearning materials, courseware, and video tutorials. During the last 3 years, Kamal has been working as a freelancer and delivered projects for organizations in Chennai, Bangalore, and Singapore.
Sundaram has 34 years of experience in the training industry of which the last 12 years is in Technical Writing and ELearning. He is the founder-director of KBuffer, a leading name in the training field. He has trained more than 5000 students in various fields. He has conducted 55 In-House Knowledge sharing sessions, 32 Corporate Training sessions, and 15 College Seminars. He has also participated in an STC Knowledge sharing session long back and made a presentation on “Graphics concepts for a Technical Writer”. At present, he is authoring a book on “Technical Writing” which due for release by the end of this year.
Session Abstract
Allied Careers for Technical Writers
- Technical Writing Skills
- Alignment with Software Documentation
- Branching Out
- Why Branch Out
- Leveraging Existing Skills- Business Analysis, Instructional Design, Testing, Elearning, Patent Writing, Developing Additional Skills
Compliance Standards in Writing
- CMM documentation (for software companies)
- MSTP (Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publication)
- S1000D (standards for Aeronautical industry documentation)
- SCORM (for ELearning documentation)
- AICC (Aviation Industry CBT Committee) for aerospace documentation
About the Venue Sponsor, Networking Break and Speaker Gifts Sponsor
KBuffer is offering regular courses in Technical Writing, E-Learning, E-Publishing, and Multimedia. Apart from various Diploma Courses, they also provide training on individual software applications such as Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe RoboHelp, Adobe Captivate and various other software.
Visit their WEBSITE to know more.
Registration Details
This session is limited to 25 participants only.
Please register for this event by selecting the number of participants and clicking the Register button.
Registration closes on 27 September 2014.
If you have any queries, please write to Aarthi (techiejune@gmail.com) or Saravanan at (sara.techwrit@gmail.com)