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Friday, 9 June 2006

Technical Writers of India (TWIN) Portal Launch Today!

Posted on 23:44 by Unknown
Yours truly will be talking at this event. I was responsible for implementing the CMS (Drupal). Be there if this piques your interest.
Start: 2006-06-10 16:00
End: 2006-06-10 18:30
Timezone: Indian
Where: Nahar Heritage, St.Marks Road, Bangalore
When: 10th June (TODAY!) between 4 and 6:30 P.M.

Event sponsor: Interwoven Inc.

Agenda of the event:

a) Welcome - Sandeep Balakrishna (TWIN Admin)

b) Formal launch of the TWIN community/portal - Mr.John Thomas John is the Vice Dean at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media. He has 34 years of experience in journalism in India at Deccan Herald, Indian Express, Statesman and Vijay Times, and Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Business Times abroad. His past work has taken him through a variety of roles from sub-editor, reporter, foreign correspondent, news service head, commentary and editorial writer to being a special projects man and media technology evangelist. He has also had brief academic involvement with two other journalism colleges in India, in addition to his recent part-time association with IIJNM. For more information, please check out http://www.iijnm.org/pro-faculty.html#john

c) About the implementation and the CMS, includes a demo of the portal - Pradeep Vasudev and Suman Kumar

d) How TWIN has evolved as a community - a few senior technical writers

e) Recognitions

This event is free for all and entry is purely first-come-first-serve.

Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
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