“MIGRATING CONTENT TO STRUCTURED FRAMEMAKER” IS TOPIC OF FREE ONLINE EVENT

Bright Path Solutions and Vasont Systems team up to present best practices for content management

Emigsville, PA, March 10, 2008 — Vasont Systems, a leading provider of content management software and data services, today announced the next free online event in its popular Vasont Webinar Series called “Best Practices for Migrating to Structured FrameMaker.” This presentation will be delivered by Bernard Aschwanden of Bright Path Solutions and Suzanne Mescan of Vasont Systems on March 27, 2008 at 1:00 pm Eastern time/10:00 am Pacific time.

Thinking about getting into content management to better organize your FrameMaker files of technical documentation, training materials, and other publications? You’re moving in the right direction! Now, how to begin?

This webinar combines the expertise of speakers Bernard Aschwanden of Bright Path Solutions and Suzanne Mescan of Vasont Systems to provide you with guidance, benefits and best practices for moving your unstructured FrameMaker files to a structured writing environment. Topics to be discussed include:
- A brief background on markup languages and structured content
- Best practices for legacy content conversion
- Decisions you must make to move to a content management system
- Future paths your structured content can take
- Best practices when using FrameMaker for converting from unstructured to structured content

Who should attend:
- Managers of technical publications
- Writers
- Editors
- FrameMaker users
- Anyone planning to migrate to structured content

Bernard Aschwanden, Director of Technology and Publishing Architecture with Bright Path Solutions, is a recognized publishing technologies expert. He is an Adobe Certified Expert, a Certified Technical Trainer and the author of numerous articles on XML-based publishing and single sourcing. He presents at conferences and events across Europe and North America. A dynamic and entertaining speaker, he tailors his presentations to the audience and welcomes participation.

In addition to his publishing background and speaking tours, he teaches a variety of classes for Bright Path Solutions. Courses include XML / DITA and related technologies, best practices for structured authoring and content management as well as tools such as FrameMaker and XMetaL. Bernard is a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication, the President of the Toronto STC and Past President of the Computer Trainers Network. Bernard has helped hundreds of companies implement successful unstructured and DITA/XML-based publishing solutions.

Suzanne is Vasont Systems’ Vice President of Marketing, with responsibility for the Company’s overall marketing and public relations efforts. She worked for more than 20 years in all aspects of the information management and publishing industry, including content management, editorial, art and design, project management, production, printing and binding. In 1989, she developed Progressive Publishing Alternatives to help publishers with project management, editorial, and design work, which she managed for 12 years. Prior to that, Suzanne was a Marketing Analyst for Advanta, a financial services firm, where she was responsible for product planning, advertising and promotion.

Suzanne has authored numerous articles about content management for industry publications and has delivered presentations for the Content Management Strategies conference, Philadelphia XML Users Group, Vasont Users’ Group, and in numerous industry webinars. She earned a BS in Marketing from The Pennsylvania State University.


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