Second Edition of "Enhancing Your Career Skills Workshop" at Chennai on May 9, 2009 May 8, 2009

Hi all,

The India chapter of Society for Technical Communication (STC) is organizing a 1-day workshop on "Enhancing your Career Skills" in Chennai on May 9, 2009.

We have lined up multiple topics, which would help you in enhancing your skills.

Schedule for the event
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9:00 AM to 9:30 AM - Registrations
9:30 AM to 10:00 AM - Welcome Speech
10:00 AM to 11:15 AM - How to learn through Social Networking Skills - Kiruba Shankar
11:30 AM to 12:30 AM - Essentials of Documentation Project Management - Kamalakannan Srinivasan
12:45 PM to 2:00 PM - LUNCH
2:00 PM to 3:15 PM - Stepping into the World of Technical Writing - Vidula Sundaram
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM - Session to be announced.

About the Speakers
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Kiruba Shankar
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Kiruba Shankar is CEO of Business Blogging Pvt Ltd and Director of F5ive Technologies. He has 12 years of experience in the Internet space. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com.

Kiruba is one of the founders of The Knowledge Foundation, the group behind successful events like BlogCamp, India's Biggest Unconference on Blogging, Proto.in, premiere event showcasing startups. He also regularly organizes MobileMondays and BarCamps. He is on the advisory board of Brand Asia Summit.

Kiruba loves teaching and teaches at Asian College of Journalism, Anna University, Madras Advertising Club, SRM University. He has lectured on Social Media at IIM Kozhikode, IIM Bangalore and IIT Madras.

He is a key member in Creative Commons India and had been selected to represent India at the iCommons Summit at Sapporo, Japan.

He authors technology columns at the New Indian Express and Business Standard Newspaper . He is an official blogger for NASSCOM and IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India)

He is a professional podcaster and hosts a show called 'The Kiruba Show' where he interviews CEOs of Indian IT companies. BusinessWorld Magazine ranks his blog www.Kiruba.com as one of India's top blogs.
Kiruba is a rowing champion and has captained the Sify Rowing Team to four championship titles. He has participated in Chennai and Bangalore marathons. His recent passion is Ultimate Frisbee.

Vidula Sundaram
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12 years in the field of Technical Writing, Vidula has worked as an Independent Consultant handling documentation projects for various clients in Chennai and outside India through Cyberword, which she had set up in the year 1996. Vidula has designed and created user guides, installation guides, quick start guides, online helps, demos and process documents. Also mentored technical writers for some clients.

Vidula graduated in Physics helped in looking at the ‘technical’ end of things and an MCA from Anna University provided exposure to programming languages and software systems

Kamalakannan Srinivasan
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Kamalakannan Srinivasan has over 8 years of experience in the technical writing field and about 14 years experience in the IT arena. Kamalakannan holds a Masters Degree in Marketing Management from IGNOU and a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics from Chennai University. Kamalakannan has worked for companies such Cognizant, Symphony, SumTotal, Airbee, and is currently employed with KLA-Tencor as Manager – Documentation.

Venue
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The workshop will be held at 101 DoMS (Department of Management Studies), IIT Madras. The address for IIT Madras is located at Guindy, Chennai.

To reach the venue, use the following link on Google Maps:

http://maps.google.co.in/maps?near=IIT+Madras&q=iit+madras+address&f=p&btnG=Search+Maps

We would send an updated email with exact auditorium details later.

Directions to reach the venue:
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IIT Madras is located next to the Cancer Institute Adyar.

Participation Fee
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Free for STC members
Rs.150/- for non-STC members

How to register for the event
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Please visit the following hyperlink to register for the event:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cE9wWU43NEVEYi1LWXZXbnhHdGlwWFE6MA..

You can pay the registration fees directly at the venue.

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Registrations close on May 7, 2009
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If you have any queries, please write to me at swami@mrmwrites.com. Please do not discuss this event on the mailing list.

Thanks and Regards
Swaminathan Moorthy
Employment Manager - STC India Chapter