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6th Annual Tech/Marcom Writers Family Picnic - A Great Success
All of those who came had such a good time that no one remembered to take pictures this year. For all those who missed it, hope to see you next year.
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Photos from the 6th Annual Techshoret Convention
Nadina Rosentuler and Sharon Mink posted some nice photos at http://elephant.org.il/elephant_event_photos/techshoret_conference/
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Notes from the Israel Translators Association conference, 2010
February 16 2010
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Tags:- Alan Clayman
- Andrew Wilson
- Asterix
- business considerations
- Dani Kerman
- Danny Verbov
- Ephraim Sidon
- Eve Hecht
- Ghil\'ad Zuckermann
- Inga Michaeli
- Israel Translators Association
- ita
- Jeffrey M. Green
- Jost Zetsche
- Mark L. Levinson
- Micaela Ziv
- Michal Horneman
- Nina Rimon Davis
- Oren Nahari
- Rachel Halevy
- Rina Ne\'eman
- Ruth Almagor
- Ruth Zakovitch
- translation
- Uri Bruck
- Yael Sela-Shapiro
- Yitschak Horneman
As a technical writer and translator, I find that when either of the two professions holds a conference, there are always several “How I Do My Stuff” lectures. Sometimes they can drive you crazy. Then along comes a “How I Do My Stuff” lecture where the lecturer’s stuff resembles your stuff. That kind of lecture, in contrast, is fascinating.
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Photos from the 5th Annual Tech/Marcom Writers Picnic
I've posted a few pictures (more coming) of the picnic the picnic. Click here...
For all those who missed it - we will have other events ... and see you next year!
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7th Annual ITA Conference: Event of the Year
February 28 2009
Tags:- Achamelsh Tasema
- Alona Frankel
- computer-aided translation
- creative writing
- crowdsourcing
- Daniel Goldschmidt
- Doron Greenshpan
- Dr. Gadi Taub
- education
- Eitan Sarig
- Eliezer Nowodworski
- Erga Heller
- Eshkol Nevo
- event
- event summary
- Getty Images
- Iris Malako
- ita
- Jonathan Golan
- Josephine Bacon
- Leon Pinsker
- Leszek Kwiatkowski
- LingoTip
- medical translation
- Miryam Blum
- nondisclosure agreements
- Professional insurance
- Shai Sendik
- statistical machine translation
- tax deductions
- Trados
- translation
- translation software
- Tzviya Levin
- Yiftach Shilony
The Israel Translators Association (ITA, www.ita.org.il) held a well-timed seventh annual conference, during the lull between this year’s two February rainstorms. The conference’s opening, on the evening of the 23rd, was preceded by optional, separately charged workshops: “The Internet as a Driver for Your Business,” “Advanced Localization,” “Words in Context” (about the editing of translations), and “Good Time Management.”
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Report from Job Fair at Cinemall
Hundreds of job seekers turned out for a successful job fair at Cinemall (Kanyon Lev HaMifratz).
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Stories of Customers, Colleague and Documents - A Great Evening
December 24 2008
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Tags:As many of us are contemplating what the downturn in the economy is going to do to us next, it was good to get together to exchange stories, especially humorous ones. Actually we bounced back and forth between funny episodes and the brass-tacks of how best to deal with the current job market (link to photos).
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First Annual MarcShoret Conference a HUGE Success!
I just got home from Jerusalem and am very happy to report that the first annual MarcShoret conference was a huge success.
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Leah Guren: Ten tips for tastier tasks
August 27 2008
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Tags:Leah Guren gave an excellent overview of what Technical Communicators should take into consideration to make their documents better and packaged it in ten tasty tips.
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“Behind every Jewish blogger is a spouse waiting to use the computer!”
August 21 2008
(edited 1 year, 5 months ago)I wish I could take credit for that line, but actually itwas one of the panelists at tonight’s blogfest, otherwise known as The FirstInternational J-Blogger Convention. It was hosted at the Jerusalemoffices of Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) and sponsored by SUN Microsystems, OfficeDepot, WebAds, LLC & Israelmall.co.il.
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TCC Conference: 2 summaries are on line
April 6 2008
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Tags:Miriam Schwab has uploaded her presentation from the TCC conference: Blogs and Social Media as a Marketing Tool for Hi-Tech Companies to her blog. In addition, she also added Benjy Caplan's presentation from the conference: Hollywood on a Shoestring Budget.
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Psychometric/psycho-technic job testing
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MadCap introduces Flame and the new MudPak updates
March 20 2008
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Tags:The company that brought us the original Robothelp (RH) team recently announced new features of its help authoring tool and accompanying software suite. One of the best features is the one that takes user feedback suggestions and instantly codes them into updates for the next release. MadCap has three other products that are also designed to work either with or without the MudPak suite.
- Reporting which is a new way for you to have live interaction with a user as they work on your documentation. If they don't pay your fees on a timely basis, you can use Feedback to totally mess up their files until they do.
- Blank, the second product, is an easy but powerful single-source print publishing replacement for Adobe Framemaker that has the power to efficiently delete and replace all existing files HTML or other files with new XML based ones, using native XML, native Unicode, and CSS without your having to do any other than click on the appropriate icon. This tool as well allows you to replace client files with blank files until they are current and paid up on your freelancing fee payments.
- The third product, Lingo, is a great tool for localization of content with built-in translation memory. It is the world's first truly XML based, fully integrated Help authoring tool and translation memory system.
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Computer Shortcuts and Tips in Jerusalem
Last night’s meeting of CoandPI in Jerusalem on Computer Shortcuts and Tips was a wonderful opportunity to learn new skills.
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DITA and Content Management Part II with Steve Wiseman
March 6 2008
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Tags:Making the best decision for your documentation needs should be based on business considerations, not just the appeal of XML-based Content Management.
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Content Management Systems and DITA (Part I)
March 6 2008
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Tags:Content Management is imperative as technical writers are required to produce more documentation more efficiently. How can DITA and Content Management Systems help?
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Task Modeling–For Ultimate Usability
March 4 2008
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Tags:Who can benefit from Task Modeling? Just about any writer who needs tomanage documents can. Task modeling is an excellent tool to use when agroup sits together to hammer out what they need from a new product orinstructional program.
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TCC: Techshoret Communicators Conference in Jerusalem
March 2 2008
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Tags:The second TCC on Thursday 28 Feb. 2008 in Jerusalem was an excellentopportunity for Technical Communicators to learn about the latest inthe field.
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Enhance Your Document With Rich Media
February 14 2008
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Shlomo Perets of MicroType, a leading expert on advanced documentation techniques, gave a 90 minute presentation in Yokneam on how we can enhance our online PDF documents using non-text additions. Specific authoring tools were not discussed, as many of the techniques shown were done directly in the PDF document. It was both eye-opening, as well as practical, to be shown how, often using available resources, we can make our PDF documents so much more effective.
Shlomo Peretz; Frank Zabow has a question
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Improve Your Memory - Summary
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Hezi Asher showed us many feats of memory, reciting pi to many digitsand the days of the week for specific dates were just a few. But healso gave us some tricks, he and others use to improve memory. 
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Marketing Complex Innovation - Summary
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The First Rain of Poetry
November 14 2007The first rain of the season reminds us that even if we do live in the Middle East, we still succumb to the forces of Mother Nature and her tokens. Yet, the weather wasn’t the only thing on my mind last Sunday.
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Blogging as a Marketing Tool
October 31 2007
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Tags:Miriam Schwab of illuminea gave a detailed workshop on Blogging as a Marketing Tool to well over 30 professionals who came from all over Israel.
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FrameMaker User Group Meets by Elizabeth Miller
October 29 2007
(edited 1 year, 6 months ago)FrameMaker User Group meets to discuss new Adobe products:
FrameMaker 8 and the brand new Adobe Technical Communication Suite.
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Sukkot Getogether in Yokneam
October 25 2007
(edited 1 year, 5 months ago)The weather was wonderful and in the garden of Svi Ben-Elya, the conversation was lively. For those of you who did not make it to Svi’s open house, you missed an opportunity to talk to other people in the business. Talking shop was never so interesting.
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Meeting with the Histradrut for freelance and other independent workers
Representatives met with the Histadrut to investigate the need and existing the problems of Freelancers and the possibility of unionizing under the auspices of the Histadrut.
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Poetry's Rockin' the City- Why not come along for the ride?
September 3 2007Someone once said, "It's easier to quote poems than to read them". Obviously, this person did not attend Sunday's Open Mic night at "Coffee Print" at 31 Bugrashov St.
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"Summertime" in Coffee Print, Tel Aviv
August 21 2007(edited 1 year, 6 months ago)It's "Summertime" and Ella Fitzgerald's classic hit wasn't the only thing resonating the streets of Tel Aviv.
For those of you who have missed out on the Open Mic nights, Coffee Print has become a home to poets, writers and musicians who meet bimonthly to share their original work or to read/perform their favorite poems/tunes.
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Open Mic - Sunday August 19th at 9 PM in Tel Aviv
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3rd Annual Elephant picnic
August 11 2007
(edited 1 year, 5 months ago)Elephant and Mike Lee do it again!
We can’t say we filled that wonderful pool at Kibbutz Hazorea , the venue for the 3rd annual Elephant picnic. We can’t say it because there were other people there, too.
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Towards More Usable Documentation: A Comverse Case Study by Liz Marlowe, Yoel Strimling, & Oz Malach
Liz Marlow, Yoel Strimling, and Oz Malach, writer, editor and documentation engineer, respectively, explained their roles in taking an existing document and revising it meet the current needs of their company.
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The STC Israel Website Posts the Convention Presentations
The STC Israel website has updated the posted materials convention’s presentations. This includes the power point presentations, and in the case of Linda Oestreich’s talk, the handouts she provided for her listeners.
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STC UK Chapter's Weekend on Visual Communications
June 14 2007(edited 2 years, 8 months ago)
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Pictures and Profits: Patrick Hoffman and the STC Conference Keynote Address
Patrick Hoffman, world-renown expert in visual language, especially interface information, gave the STC Keynote address on how visual information design can improve usability of the product and improve the return of investment for you client.
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STC Israel 40th Anniversary Convention - What a Success!
The STC convention was quite an event. I, a novice in the field, was duly impressed by the number of people attending, the energy, the networking, and the whole atmosphere of so many people working in diverse aspects of technical communication.
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STC Israel Event XML and Content Management with Gershon Joseph (part 3) - 5th of July
Third event in the series on XML and Content Management with Gershon Joseph - July 5.
Part 1: XML Management
Part 2: Translating XML content
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Eitan Reuveni and “Leadership, Success, and Attitude” or “Your Path to Success”
Summary by
We were privileged to meet with Eitan
Reuveni and hear directly from him some of his managerial
tips. Sure, all of us can read what is
posted on the Elephant site, but to hear Eitan and listen to his stories made
it all that much more relevant.
Eitan started the meeting by showing us a picture:
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He then asked us to call out how many squares we see. As each one of us answered and changed our
estimate learning from others, he was pleased. Eitan showed us how that this interaction is so important: working together
as a group.
Now that we had a group, what makes a good leader? Is a manager a leader? Eitan then asked us
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XML and Content Management Series
• Do you really need a full-house XML CMS? • Price vs. features • Hi-level comparison of several products from small team solutions to enterprise-wide solutions • Discussion of various CMS features
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Better PDFs with FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers
March 15 2007
(edited 1 year, 5 months ago)Demonstration/discussion of different techniques for improving and enriching PDFs authored in FrameMaker, and how to achieve these goals automatically and consistently, using TimeSavers general settings and/or TimeSavers hypertext markers placed in individual FrameMaker files.
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Tax Issues for Dual Citizens
Tuesday night US/Israeli tax specialist Phil Stein www.pstein.com came out for café talk in Tel Aviv to give us freelance writers a few tips. Stein came to Israel 28 years ago, and since has started a firm which includes 10 people specializing in US tax, Israeli tax and the points where the two systems meet.
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March 27 - Translation Event
March 14 2007(edited 2 years, 8 months ago)
Tags:First Lecture: לא-קל-יזציה : Your Translation Is Too Long (should spell: the Source Was Too Short)
Second Lecture: Translating on the Edge
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Because the first one was just that good
March 13 2007(edited 1 year, 5 months ago)After a very successful first Open Mic in Tel Aviv, with about 30 attendees, the creative energy continued this past Sunday at Coffee Print.
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Poetry Hits Tel Aviv
March 13 2007(edited 1 year, 6 months ago)It started off as an ordinary night in Tel Aviv: pleasant night time weather, people walking on the streets with umbrellas under their arms, uncertain of the possibility of another winter storm. Yet all that changed when I walked through the door
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STC Israel Event on XML and Content Management
Series of events on XML and content management. The first of the series on 8th march 2007.
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STC Israel Event on Styled Guides and Content Models - 24 January 2007
Despite the wealth of new buzzwords in the technical communications arena (DITA, CMS, XML, to name just a few), many of us are still interested in writing good, consistent content.
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International Recognition for 2 Israeli TWs
January 25 2007
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Tags:For the first time in the history of the STC Israel Technical Communication Competitions, the Award of Distinguished has been given to technical communicators at an Israeli company.
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Translation, Writing and Editing Workshops at Beit Berl
January 23 2007
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Telecom Israel 2006 Exhibition - Pictures
November 8 2006
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US Consul Meets Writers
On May 9, 2006 Jonathan Friedland, the Consular Agent for the United States in Haifa spent nearly 3 1/2 hours meeting with technical writers and answering questions.
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