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7:30am EDT

Registration Open Tuesday Woodrow Wilson Foyer

8:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast Woodrow Wilson Expo Hall Tuesday Woodrow Wilson

9:00am EDT

Productivity Hacks for Technical Communicators Annapolis 3/4 Five Cascading Style Sheet Techniques That Every Technical Writer Should Know Baltimore 5 Writing Complete APIs Baltimore 3 A Tech Writer, A Map, and an App Baltimore 4 CANCELLED: Customer Success: It's Not Just a Job, It's a Calling! Annapolis 1/2 Everyone's an Editor Baltimore 1/2

10:10am EDT

Ditch the Rose-Colored Glasses: A Look at the Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Moving to XML Baltimore 5 Getting to Compliant: Responding to Government RFPs for the Technical Communicator Baltimore 4 We Stoop to Conqquer: Adjusting to Mediocrity Baltimore 1/2 We’re Going Mobile! Great! What Does That Mean? Annapolis 1/2 Accessibility Made Easy: Automating and Optimizing Accessible Outputs from DITA XML Baltimore 3 Hello World! RIP Traditional Content Strategies and Methodologies Annapolis 3/4 DITA Isn't for Everyone. SmartDocs Is. SmartDocs Transforms Word into a Complete Content Management Solution Woodrow Wilson

11:00am EDT

Tuesday Break Woodrow Wilson

11:30am EDT

API and Lone Writer SIGs Combined Meeting Camellia 3 Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG Camellia 4 Instructional Design and Learning SIG Annapolis 1 Speed Networking Woodrow Wilson

1:00pm EDT

Content As-a-Service: A Structured Program for Extending Your Business Value and Amazing More Customers Baltimore 5 Edits as ESL Teaching: Working with Multi-lingual Writers Baltimore 4 Know Your Client's Language Annapolis 3/4 Case Study: Finding Your Documentation Utopia in an Agile Environment Baltimore 1/2 Creating a Free Intranet using Drupal Baltimore 3 Generating Web Service API Documentation Automatically from the Source Code Annapolis 1/2 So You Think You Know What Your Readers Want? Annapolis 3/4 Increase Productivity While Championing Creativity Woodrow Wilson

2:10pm EDT

Aligning Your Technical Communication Content with Brand Initiatives and Making Marketing Pay for It Baltimore 5 Cut through the Clutter: Using Plain Language to Gain the Cutting Edge Annapolis 1/2 Is DITA Right for You? Scenarios for Considering a Move to DITA Baltimore 4 Prototypes of Use: Adapting Content to the Usability Expectations of Different Contexts Annapolis 3/4 Leveraging Structured Authoring: DITA Techniques When All You Have are Unstructured Tools Baltimore 1/2 Technical Editing for the 21st Century: Reconsidering Competencies in Academic Offerings Baltimore 3 Advance Your Career through Self-Publishing Woodrow Wilson

3:00pm EDT

Exhibitor Raffle Drawings & Refreshment Break Woodrow Wilson

4:00pm EDT

Collaboration, Communication, and Credibility: Building Stronger Content Teams Annapolis 1/2 Art of Writing in Agile Annapolis 3/4 Give Readers the Power of Choice Baltimore 5 My Android Dreams of Electric Cats: Are You Capturing Your User's Emotive Analytics? Annapolis 3/4 Tactics, Taxes, and Trust: Lessons from the Freelancing Front Baltimore 1/2 Gamification of Instructional Design Baltimore 4 The Wonderful World of Proposals Baltimore 3

5:30pm EDT

Honors Reception Cherry Blossom

7:00pm EDT

Rough Drafts After Party Cherry Blossom

10:00pm EDT

Karaoke @ Public House TBA