AODC 2006
Rydges Tradewinds Cairns 3rd - 5th May 2006
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The ninth annual Australasian Online Documentation and Content
Conference, AODC 2006, was held at the
Rydges Tradewinds,
Cairns, from Wednesday 3rd to Friday 5th May. It was a fantastic conference,
with a great group of enthusiastic and friendly professionals attending.
AODC 2006 featured almost 20 sessions covering techniques,
technologies, tools and case studies, presented by international and local
expert speakers. Session topics include DITA, structured authoring, XML,
usability, editing, migration to Microsoft Vista, user assistance, dynamic
HTML and case studies. For all the details, see the
agenda. Unfortunately the conference proceedings are not available for
sale.
Highlights included "Choco" Munday's lively and amusing
talk on Word Abuse, Carol Barnum's interesting session on
Indexing vs Full Text Search and Dr Tom James' presentation about Better
Authoring through CSS and Micro-structures.
See the photos of the Cairns conference in the AODC
2006 Photo Album
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Read about AODC 2006 in this
report for Southern Communicator
by Janet Taylor.
Two pre-conference workshops were held on Tuesday 2nd May,
"CSS, Scripting and XML Primer" with Dave Gash and "Where Now? Tools and
Technologies for Online Documentation" with Tony Self.
The Pursue IT Welcome Reception outdoors by the pool was
the perfect end to the first day. Delegates and speakers enjoyed the opportunity
to network over a drink or two, and then went off to dinner at various restaurants
around Cairns.
Uncle Dave's Trivia Night and dinner on Thursday was a lot
of fun. The setting was the Court House Hotel, with the old dock put to
use "punishing" wayward participants. The Thorny Devils were the winners,
being the only team to work out the complex repeating pattern of answers
"a, b, c, d, a, b, c, d"! In the spirit of fun, the losing team and
the fifth placed team also received equally worthless prizes!
The Trade Exhibition was held in the unique tropical setting
of a shaded terrace overlooking Trinity Bay. The weather was perfect for
delegates to talk to vendors TechWriter Placements, AuthorIT, Christchurch
Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Elkera, MadCap and Microway.
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Sponsors
HyperWrite greatly appreciates our sponsors and exhibitors, who contributed greatly
to the success of this event.
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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