AODC 2005
Hilton on the Park Melbourne 4th
- 6th May 2005
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The eighth annual Australasian Online Documentation
and Content Conference, AODC 2005,
was held at the Hilton on
the Park Melbourne
Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th
May. This was the biggest event of the year for anyone
involved in corporate documentation, online Help, Web authoring and
technical writing, with more than 100 professionals participating.
AODC 2005 featured 22 sessions covering techniques,
technologies, tools and case studies, 13 international and local expert
speakers, pre-conference workshops and a Vendor Exhibition. Session topics
included structured authoring, XML, usability, editing, evolving English,
Longhorn Help, using storyboards and prototypes, user assistance, dynamic
HTML and case studies. |
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Highlights included the fascinating session In Forme of Speche is Chaunge
by Dr Kate Burridge, where we heard about yod-dropping, relic
words, genital flip-flop and grammaticalisation. Joe Welinske's Web Technology Update, Rob
Chandler's Longhorn Help and Tony Self's Where are We Going provided food
for thought about our future, while Matthew Ellison's session Seven, Plus or
Minus Two challenged a few truths from the past.
The TechWriter Placements Welcome Reception was a great
end to the first day of the conference, and provided an opportunity to catch up
with old friends, meet new ones and network with the leading professionals that
come along to AODC. "Uncle" Dave's Trivia Night at the historic Coopers
Inn was highly entertaining, with no one catching on until the very end that the
answer to every single question was "false"!
Footy Friday was a perfectly relaxed way
to end AODC 2005. Melbourne turned on a magnificent sunny day for delegates to
enjoy a kick-around outside the MCG, and the Hilton's Chef put on a spectacular
footy themed buffet lunch.
On Tuesday 3rd May, the day before the
Conference proper,
two
specialised workshops were conducted:
Authoring Tools, Workflows and Paradigms
presented by Matthew Ellison and Usability Testing
presented by Scott DeLoach.
The AODC 2005 Photo Album
- Don't miss the photos of the
Melbourne conference.
Sponsors
HyperWrite would like to thank our 2005 sponsors and
exhibitors for their support.
About AODC
Since the
very first Australasian Online Documentation Conference in Melbourne in 1998,
the conference has developed a reputation as the premier event for technical
writers, help developers, Web authors and documentation developers from
Australia and New Zealand. Our speaker list reads like a Who's Who of
documentation, as we strive to ensure that experts in techniques and
technologies are available to share their knowledge and expertise. The conference
is also a great place to network with other documentation professionals.
AODC is jointly hosted by HyperWrite
and WritersUA, organisers of the famous Online
Help Conference in the US. HyperWrite is an Australian hypertext and Internet
company that has been a local pioneer and continuing leader in online documentation
development.
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