The first meeting of the 2008-2009 program year will be held on September 22 in the English Foundation Building in downtown Indianapolis. Our featured speaker to kick off the 2008-2009 program year will be Indiana’s own Scott Abel.

We are excited to be holding the meeting at the William E. English Foundation Building in downtown Indianapolis. The English Foundation is part of the Central Indiana Community Foundation that provides facilities to not for profit organizations such as the STC.

This year, program meetings will also be available to attend online using the podcasting service available from talkshoe.com. You can listen to the program and chat online with others attending the meeting, for free—even anonymously—through your browser. You will receive instructions on how to use this feature before the meeting.
Scott Abel is a content management strategist whose strengths lie in helping organizations improve the way they author, maintain, publish and archive their information assets (documents, manuals, processes, procedures, web pages, multi-media, training, white papers, etc.)

About the Presenter
Scott is a presenter at industry conferences and a founding member / former executive director of Content Management Professionals.

He co-produces several industry events including both the Documentation and Training conference series and the Web Content conference series.

His blog, TheContentWrangler.com, is a popular destination for technical communication and content creation professionals seeking information related to the discipline of content management. His global social network, The Content Wrangler Community, is the online gathering place for content professionals from around the world.

Scott has considerable experience in XML-based enterprise content management strategy, high tech marketing communications, business process analysis, technical writing and editing, usability, content localization, and designing single source solutions. Scott’s formal journalism education, combined with 10 years experience as a technical writer, make him a natural fit in organizations seeking to assure the content they provide to their customers is accurate and consistent everywhere it is used (write content once, use it often).

Scott is an editor of technical, medical and scientific documents and books, and a frequent contributor to a variety of trade publications.

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