Next Chapter Meeting; Friday, January 18th 11:30 to 1:00

Join us on Friday, January 18, 2008 from 11:30 to 1:00 for our next chapter meeting. Once again, a free lunch will be served. Please remember to RSVP — details on how to do so are listed below.

Our meeting will feature a presentation entitled, “Content Analysis: the Key to Reuse.”

Successful content analysis, tracking and reuse are critical to single sourcing and content management. This presentation discusses the process of analyzing content on conceptual, relational and structural levels. We also focus on ways to track the results of an analysis for use in FrameMaker single sourcing and in a content management system. We also identify some basic questions to ask during a content analysis and show a resulting content matrix with vertical and horizontal content patterns that support reuse and provide to structure.

Objectives:

To facilitate a discussion of proven processes used to analyze content that leads to reuse and, where appropriate, the criteria for rewrite that leads to reuse. Discuss rules and tools used for a case study to analyze, create, review/approve, highlight, archive and delete content in preparation for both single sourcing and content management system implementation.

Speaker Information:

Mollye Barrett has been a professional writer for over 25 years with experience as a technical writer and publications manager, content management and technical communication consultant. She is the president of ClearPath, LLC (www.clearpath.cc) in Milwaukee where she counsels clients in best practices for managing all types of written and illustrated information. Her work includes evaluating, selecting and implementing XML Content Management Systems.

Mollye is the Marketing Communications Director for Content Management Professionals (http://www.cmprofessionals.org/), Mentoring Program Manager for the Wisconsin Chapter of STC and the Immediate Past President of that chapter (http://www.stc-wi.org/).

When? Friday, January 18th, 2008 (networking from 11:30 to Noon; presentation from Noon to 1:00pm)

Where? The Great Dane, 2980 Cahill Main in Fitchburg

Who? All STC 4 Lakes members as well as potential members that want to learn more about STC and our chapter meetings.

How do I RSVP? Simply post a comment to this very blog entry (click the ‘Comments’ text in the lower, right-hand corner of this blog entry) by Wednesday, January 16th. When you RSVP, please indicate the following:

• Your first name
• One meal selection: Fish (New London Bridge Fish Fry), Vegetarian (Taliesin Vegetable Tart), Wrap (Prime Rib Wrap), or Pasta (Southwest Tortellini). You can find detailed descriptions of each selection in the Great Dane online menu (PDF). 

If you have problems RSVPing via the blog, you can also RSVP by emailing Chad: cbeery (at sign) us.ibm.com.