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Meetings and Workshops

Over the past 10+ years, Elephant has been a completely voluntary effort. Top notch speakers volunteer their time, while hi-tech companies and the city of Yokneam provide facilities. Meetings are free and informal, but informative and candid. Even frontal presentations often turn into discussions. Meetings begin with AA style introductions and announcements.

 

 
 

Tech Writer Family Picnics

Every year, Mike Lee organizes the annual Elephant Family picnic at the Kibbutz Hazorea swimming pool. The picnic is open to all technical writers, marcom writers, copy editors and members of similar professions. the pool and grounds around it is one of the nicest swimming pools in  all of Israel.

It has a great swimming pool for kids and infants, and an even better one for the adults.

 

Event Summaries
An insider’s look at the new construction projects currently underway at Rambam Health Care Campus.
An insider’s look at the new construction projects currently underway at Rambam Health Care Campus.

Debbie Hemstreet provided an insider’s look at the new construction projects currently underway at Rambam Health Care Campus.

Topics Covered

  • The Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital—To provide emergency acute and chronic care while under fire, the focus of the meeting, described below
  • The Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital—To provide “pain free” pediatric care to serve the physical and emotional needs of children and their families
  • The Biomedical Discover Tower—To conduct clinical research that leads to improved patient care in collaboration with academic institutions and the biomedical industry
  • The Cardiovascular Hospital—To provide cardiovascular diagnosis, treatments, research, and disease risk reduction in one facility, using the integrated cardiovascular care model
  • The Joseph Fishman Oncology Center—To provide cancer treatments including experimental treatments resulting from research conducted at Rambam that were previously unavailable
Becoming Audiovisual

A new way of providing technical information was presented by Angel Pariente, professional filmmaker who recently made aliyah. A small group of technical writers and colleagues met at Svi and Pnina Ben Elya’s home in Yokneam.  Outside in the cool air Angel showed us how to become audiovisual. In a hands-on demo he showed us how a rudimentary technical instruction leaflet is transformed into a video clip with concise and instructive audio.  He successfully made assembly of a household food processor seem so easy that immediately one wanted to pick up all the heavy manuals, toss ‘em, seize the challenge and move forward with the new technology and interface.

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.

Networking at the Conference
Techshoret Conference

Nadina Rosentuler and Sharon Mink posted some nice photos at

Notes from the Israel Translators Association Conference, 2010

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.

Report from Job Fair at Cinemall, Thursday 26-Feb-09

Hundreds of job seekers turned out for a successful job fair at Cinemall (Kanyon Lev HaMifratz).

7th Annual ITA Conference: Event of the Year

The Israel Translators Association (ITA,

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2008 events

Events organized by the Yokneam Forum in 2008

Stories of Customers, Colleague and Documents - A Great Evening

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 (