Celebrating 20 Glorious Years of RoboHelp!

In 1991, RoboHelp began to earn its reputation as the leading tool in the help and policy authoring space. Now, on its 20th anniversary, Adobe celebrates “20 glorious years of RoboHelp” with exclusive RoboHelp 9 launch offers at the WritersUA conference.

Venue: Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Long Beach, California

Dates: March 13–16, 2011

To mark the January 2011 launch of Adobe RoboHelp 9 (the fourth release since Adobe took on the development of this revered software) and to celebrate 20 years of leadership in the field of help and policy content authoring and publishing, Adobe has joined hands with the prestigious WritersUA 2011 Conference to offer a host of special privileges for conference attendees.

Exclusive offers are:

1. WritersUA Conference registration fee discount: Register before 11:59pm PST on February 11, 2011, to get a US$200 discount on the conference registration fee of US$1,295. This offer is available only if you register in time via this Adobe promotional program.


2. Exclusive RoboHelp 9 workshop and networking event: We are extending a special invitation to the Southern California technical communication community as well as the participants of the WritersUA Software User Assistance Conference 2011, where Adobe is a major sponsor, to an exclusive “Workshop-cum-Networking Reception” being hosted by Adobe. The detailed agenda for the event is available here. The speakers include Ankur Jain, Tom Aldous, John Daigle, Rick Stone, and Peter Grainge. Register for free to attend this RoboHelp 9 event on March 13, 2011, 8:30am–1:00pm PST, at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach, California. Seating is limited. Registration for this free Adobe event closes at 11:59pm PST on 28th Feb, 2011.


3. Your chance to win Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3 software: Register for a chance to win a full, new version of Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3 which will be given away by Adobe at the WritersUA 2011 conference!

Adobe RoboHelp 9 launch eSeminar: Register to attend the free eSeminar “What’s new in Adobe RoboHelp 9” on February 3, 2011, 10:00am–11:00am PST. Learn more about Adobe RoboHelp 9. You can also watch on–demand eSeminars at your convenience.

Please join us in celebrating 20 glorious years of RoboHelp!

Ankur Jain

Product Manager, Technical Communication Suite | RoboHelp

Follow me on Twitter: @ankurjain8

Hanselminutes Podcast 251 - HTML5 Basics with Mads Kristensen

Scott chats with Mads Kristensen about HTML5? What exactly is this thing? Is it evolutionary or revolutionary? Should you start working with HTML5 now, or should you wait for some unknown future?

Download: MP3 Full Show

• http://diveintohtml5.org/

NOTE: If you want to download our complete archives as a feed - that's all 251 shows, subscribe to the Complete MP3 Feed here.

Also, please do take a moment and review the show on iTunes.

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Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show.

Telerik is our sponsor for this show.

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As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)

Enjoy. Who knows what'll happen in the next show?

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Rediscovering the joys of mobile learning with Podcaster & Audible

I love using my iPhone for numerous reasons, but a big one is mobile learning. In this post, I'll describe some of the reasons I'm re-discovering my love for audio podcasts and audiobooks on the iPhone, thanks to the $2 app Podcaster and the free app, Audible.

These are the 'media consumption' apps I currently have installed and primarily use on my iPhone.

I've created a linked list of these on Appolicious, which I titled, 'Mobile Media Consumption.'

As I explained in yesterday's post, 'Manage Podcasts WITHOUT an iTunes Sync Using Podcaster,' the Podcaster application is potentially transformative because it allows 'over the air' management of podcast channels without the need to sync your iOS device to iTunes on a laptop or desktop computer.

I currently subscribe to over fifty free podcast channels. Downloading content from several of these channels to my mobile device is a guarantee mobile learning / professional development is always at my fingertips if I want it. This is a selection of my recent podcast downloads on Podcaster.

The interface for Podcaster is similar to the built-in iPod application, but it allows for wireless streaming of podcast content OR podcast downloads. If you're going to be disconnected from wifi, downloading is the best option. If you're connected, however, you can save yourself the need to delete the podcast later if you just listen to it as streamed media. This is a screenshot of one episode I enjoyed tonight, 'Living the Green Dream' on American Public Radio's podcast channel for 'The Story.'

I love how Podcaster provides the option to SHARE links to a specific podcast episode to which you're listening or watching.

I used this tonight to post some links to my main Posterous blog. I use this site to save and share different kinds of resources, particularly when it's not possible to readily save those links to my Diigo / Delicious social bookmarks. Posterous websites are one of the BEST tools for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users because many apps permit sharing via email. In this case, when I chose to email the Podcaster info for the 'DocArchive: Lost Voices of Afghanistan' BBC World Service Documentaries podcast, this was the post result on Posterous:

Posterous automatically created a flash-player on the post so others can directly listen to the podcast from that post. Since Posterous blogs are FREE and easy to populate via email, they are ideal for students to use for research projects. Think of a Posterous blog used in this way as a 'research bucket' for links, notes, quotations, and more.

I also want to share an enthusiastic recommendation for Audible and the free Audible iOS app. Last semester, commuting 3 hours to the University of North Texas each week for three days, I became an Audible monthly subscriber for the first time. I had not previously listened to many audio books, and didn't consider it something I'd want to do regularly. My opinion was transformed by my experiences commuting with Audible last semester! I listened to several complete books over the course of the semester, and there is no way I would have been able to 'read' these without Audible. Currently, I'm almost finished listening to Stephen Kinzer's fantastic book about Iran, 'All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.' I highly recommend it.

If you don't know the background of BP as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, it's a history lesson about English colonialism that's probably long overdue. If the name Mohammad Mossadegh and the Majlis aren't in your historical lexicon yet, they should be and Kinzer will remedy this learning gap.

I'm an ardent fan of TRANSFORMATIVE uses of learning technologies, which I define as uses enabling learning that otherwise would be impossible or extremely difficult. Podcaster and Audible are both applications which can be used transformatively for mobile learning, by older adults as well as younger learners. If you have an iOS device and have not already, consider giving both of them a try. If you want to jump-start your own podcast subscription list in Podcaster or in iTunes, my current podcast subscriptions are available as an importable OPML file. Instructions about importing those into Podcaster are available on yesterday's post.

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Morning Links - Will Kristen Stewart Play Snow White?

Morning Links - Will Kristen Stewart Play Snow White?: "

• Talk of a new role for Kristen Stewart - Huffington Post


• Channing and Jenna have a sweet weekend in Chicago - People


• Will Hailee Steinfeld get a big new role in The Hunger Games? - Lainey Gossip


• No Doubt's Tony Kanal welcomes a daughter - PopEater


• Kristin Cavallari's supposedly injured Chicago Bears boyfriend is well enough to shop - TMZ


• How Chelsea Handler broke 50 Cent's heart - Us Weekly


• Katie Holmes is apparently unhappy about bad Sundance buzz - Wonderwall


• Jon Cryer chats about the Charlie Sheen situation - Celebitchy


• MTV vows to stick with Skins no matter what - Fox 411


• Looks like the Smith family is going ahead with the Annie remake - ICYDK


• Carey Mulligan says she's a practical romantic - I'm Not Obsessed

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We Salute You!

We Salute You!: "

In celebration of the recently announced Academy Award nominations….

CLICK HERE for a photo gallery of all the 2011 Oscar nominees!

CLICK HERE for a photo gallery of all the 2011 Oscar nominees!

CLICK HERE for a photo gallery of all the 2011 Oscar nominees!

CLICK HERE for a photo gallery of all the 2011 Oscar nominees!

CLICK HERE for a photo gallery of all the 2011 Oscar nominees!

P.S. That's Winter's Bone star and 'Best Actress' nominee Jennifer Lawrence (above)!

[Image via WENN.]

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2011: The Year of the Job

In recent weeks, we've been asking job seekers about their plans for 2011--and they're telling us that the coming year is all about a new focus on work.

We asked, 'Will your job or career be more or less of a priority in 2011 than in 2010?' And 61% said work would be more of a priority (9% said it would be less, 14% said they expected no change, and 16% weren't sure yet).

As many experts are predicting a rise in hiring over the next 12 months (at least a slight one), even people who already have jobs are thinking of looking for work in 2011.

We asked, 'What's at the top of your career wish list for 2011?' And 66% wished for a new job with a new employer (15% were hoping for a raise or promotion at their current employer, 17% were hoping to become self-employed, and only 2% were happy with the status quo).

The good news is, job seekers are mostly hopeful about their prospects. We asked, 'Do you think 2011 will bring improvements to your job or employment situation?' And 42% said they expected conditions to improve (33% expected conditions to worsen, and 25% expected things to stay about the same).

Of course, a career or job search doesn't improve on its own, and our poll respondents seem to recognize that. We asked, 'Are you making New Year's resolutions related to your career or job search?' And 78% said they'd made work-related resolutions.

Are you looking for ideas on taking your career to the next level in 2011? Check out the articles below for tips. And use the Comments section to let us know what your career- or job-related plans for 2011 are, or find us on Twitter: @HotJobs_editor and @MonsterCareers.

Read '5 New Year's Career Resolutions for 2011.'

Read '11 Things You Should Resolve Not to Do at Work in 2011.'

Read 'New Year's Resolutions for Jobless.'

Read 'A Fresh Start for Your Career.'

60 AutoCAD Tips in 60 Minutes!

The AU 2010 Classes are now posted! Those of you who are on Autodesk Subscription, the Autodesk Assistance Program, AU Virtual Premier Pass holders or who attended AU in Las Vegas can view all of the recorded classes. My 60 AutoCAD Tips in 60 Minutes is one of those classes so check it out!

The first 20 minutes of the video are set up (I'm not sure why that's included) - so please just fast forward until the class starts.

Check out the AU BLAUG for more detailed information on how to access all the recorded AU 2010 classes.