Next meeting, 2010 Tues, 6 April Topic How to get people to read documentation Where? Friends' Lounge, National Library of Australia 5.45pm to 7.15pm Everyone is welcome Please RSVP the coordinators by email

Canberra ACT Members Group

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The Canberra branch of ASTC (NSW) holds meetings

• on the first Tuesday of February, April, June, August, October, December
• from 5:45 to 7:15 pm

Our usual venue is the Friends' Lounge, National Library of Australia.

Stay in touch

Why not join our Google-hosted email group [ASTC ACT].

You'll receive

• up-to-date news of our meetings
• other items of interest, including notices of interesting local meetings and workshops
• occasional news of local positions vacant for both contractors and permanents

If you have a Google account, you can visit our site to read emails and modify your preferences, but even without a Google account, you will receive news and update emails.

To join or make enquiries, send an email to astc_act_coordinators@googlegroups.com or to astcnsw@hutchinson.com.au.

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Please pass on ideas

• about a topic you want covered at a meeting
• about a presentation you'd like to give

... And please email Robin if you do not want to be on this mailing list or if your email address has changed.

Previous meeting topics

• Developing a proposal tool with DITA and XML
  Sarah Goodall from TACTICS Consulting
• Roger Swift on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  Meeting summary
• Cool things with Microsoft Word
  Kristina Cunningham explained some of Word's more esoteric features.

• Catching their attention
  Cindy Chambers of Questacon discussed strategies for addressing a key communication challenge.
• Expand your professional network
  Indexers, editors, publishers and technical communicators got together at the National Library and shared their plans for 2006. The meeting was hosted by the Society of Indexers.
• Australian Government Web Guide
  Peter Alexander, from AGIMO spoke about the new Web guide.
• Communicating in disasters
  Kate Armstrong and Annabel Beckenham
  Meeting report
• Publishing Treasury documents
  Speaker - Anne Fornasiero from the Australian Treasury

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