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Jacob Villanueva [email protected] www.digitalpurity.com 512-497-7998 On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Alex S. Jones wrote: > In addition to the great topics we have lined up, we will also be > giving away two books, courtesy of O'Reilly, so come on out to learn > and possibly win a copy of Using Drupal or Everything You Know About > CSS is Wrong! > > Event Details > 7:00 - 9:00p.m. August 11th > Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos > > Drupal - An Introduction > Presenter: Lauren Roth > The days are long gone when the height of sophistication in web > development and design was applying a style sheet to your static > HTML. You could instead hand code a custom web application to serve > your content, but not have an easy way for your client to log in and > change content themselves. Along came blogs and with blogs, and more > sophisticated client-side scripting, dynamically loaded content. A > powerfully flexible way to organize large amounts of content is to > use a Content Management System like Drupal. > So, what is Drupal? You may have heard of it. You may have tried > Wordpress and considered it a lightweight CMS. You may have also > tried Joomla! Drupal is a content management system, written in PHP, > which can be used to build websites as simple as blogs or as complex > as full-scale community sites. You can use its abundance of > community contributed modules toward building a web publishing > platform, a social application, or a even a magazine like The > Economist, which is currently being converted to Drupal. > > > Documentation as Conversation > Presenter: Anne Gentle > > Even if your documentation system does not converse with your users, > your documentation can help customers talk to each other and make > the connections that help them do their jobs well or learn something > new as if they were in a classroom with a community for classmates. > This talk describes how you can think about documentation and user > assistance in a conversational way, with the help of social media > technology. I'll discuss the topics in my new book, Conversation and > Community: The Social Web for Documentation. I'll describe the use > of in-person Book Sprints that combinewikis and community events to > gather together writers to accomplishdocumentation goals. > > Alex Jones > www.SilverSpider.com > www.twitter.com/BaldMan > www.RefreshAustin.org > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
