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The December 2007 Chapter Meeting

Topic:

    Single-sourcing through a CMS for a Small Writing Team, using AuthorIT

    Chris Muntzer leads a small team of writers who produce both hardcopy and Help from a single source CMS (content management system) using AuthorIT. Chris will share his expertise and discuss how to:

    • Set up and maintain consistency with multiple writers when single sourcing through a CMS
    • Analyze a project to break it down into reusable chunks of information
    • Develop a localization strategy that synchronizes changes in the source and translated projects

Speaker:

    Chris Muntzer

    Chris Muntzer was born in and raised in the UK where he trained as an electrical engineer. In 1978, he moved to the USA and has since become a US citizen. As an engineer, he became increasingly interested in technical documentation and, seven years ago made a career change to become a full-time technical writer.

    As a technical writer, he has explored the practical implementation of single-sourcing and content management systems (CMS). For several years he has led a small team of writers, creating documentation for several products out of an AuthorIT single-source CMS.

Date:

    Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Times:

    6:00 p.m. Networking
    6:30 p.m. Dinner
    7:15 p.m. Announcements
    7:30 p.m. Presentation
    9:30 p.m. End

Location:

    Highlands Country Club,110 Hiller Drive, Oakland, California