Canadian Thanksgiving

This month, I'll be renewing acquaintances with technical communications professionals, and meeting more people in the communications family. It will be a time to fill my head with new ideas, and to have meaty conversation.

DITA

On October 9, I'll attend the monthly meeting of the Toronto chapter of the Society for Technical Communications (STC). Michael Priestley, will be speaking about the adoption of DITA in a wide range of contexts, and about DITA 1.1. I've heard Michael Priestley about the basics of DITA. I'm interested to find out how various organizations are adapting DITA to their needs.

Social Media Club

About a month or so ago, Ynema Magnum invited me (along with other talk.bmc bloggers) to a meeting of the Social Media Club. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend, as the meeting was in Austin, but Ynema pointed out that there are chapters of the Social Media Club all over. The Toronto chapter hasn't taken off yet, but we do have a mailing list. Robin (one of the other members of the mailing list) and I are planning a meeting later this month, to help get the Toronto chapter started. By the way, if you're in Toronto and interested in social media (such as blogging, and social networks, such as LinkedIn and Facebook), consider joining the mailing list, so that you can find out about the October and future meetings.

Advanced technical communication and project management

At the end of this month, I'll head out to New Orleans for Lavacon, the conference for advanced technical communication and project management. I'm looking forward to meeting in-person with technical communications professionals whom I've mostly dealt with on-line, and sharing great ideas on managing technical communications projects.

What about you?

If you'll be at any of these events, please do say hello. I love meeting people in the professional communications family. If these events don't work for you:

• Communicators, find out if there's an STC chapter near you, or a social media club chapter near you.
• BMC product and solution users, consider going to BMC UserWorld.
  

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