Please send replies for the Macromedia usability testing opportunity to mlenhard@macromedia.com, not to Rolfe!

Please forward this to any non-technical (no designers or developers), non-Macromedian Mac users who might be interested in participating:
 
Hello,
 
We are inviting people to come to our Macromedia Facilities in Redwood City, CA to participate in a usability study.
Interested? It would be a 45 minute time commitment and in exchange you will be awarded a gift of $50 cash. Please fill out the questionnaire below. Your answers will be reviewed and if you fit a profile of the participants we need, we will contact you to schedule a session time.
 
If you don't hear back from us, this means that the openings for this particular usability study have been filled. We will keep your information on file, with your permission, for future studies.
 
If you never want to be bothered by us again when it comes to usability studies, please reply to this message with a subject line that says "No Thanks."
 
Please type in your answers to all of the following: (respond to mlenhard@macromedia.com)
 
1. Do you create content for your company's website? If so, what kind of content do you create?
 
 
2. If you create content for the web, how does it get posted?
 
_______I post it myself
_______I send it to someone else to post.
_______N/A
 
3. What do you use to create the content and how long have you been using the tool?
 
______Microsoft Word_______how long?
______Email________how long?
______Microsoft FrontPage________how long?
______Macromedia Contribute_______how long?
______Macromedia Dreamweaver_________how long?
______Macromedia Flash__________how long?
______HTML________how long?
______Adobe GoLive_______how long?
______Other, Please list________how long?
______N/A
 
4. Do you use email or a website to collaborate with co-workers?
 
______Yes
______No
 
5. If yes, how frequently do you send these documents out?
 
______1 - 5 a week
______ 6 - 10 a week
______ 11 - 20 a week
______ 21 - 30 a week
______ 50 or more a week
______ N/A
 
6. If you use email to collaborate, which do you do most often:
 
______ Attach the documents
______ Put the content in the email
______ N/A
 
7. Does your company have a website? If so, which type? (select all that apply).
 
______Yes
______No
______Intranet (internal employee site)
______Internet (external employee site)
 
8. How many people work in your company/organization:
 
______1
______ 2 - 10
______ 11 to 100
______ 101 - 1000
______ More than 1000
 
9. Which platform do you use at work?
 
______Mac
______Windows NT
______Windows 2000
______Windows XP
______Other, please list_________
 
 
10. Please fill out your contact information below (all required, no personal email addresses or phone #'s):
 
Name:
Work Email:
Work Phone:
Company:
Job Title:
 
11. Please check your availability below (please check all that you are available for, the more you check, the better your odds of being scheduled):
 
Wednesday, Sept 17
 
_______9:45 - 10:30
 
_______11:00 am - 11:30 pm
 
_______1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
 
_______2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
 
 
Thursday, Sept 18
 
_______9:45 - 10:30
 
_______11:00 am - 11:45 pm
 
_______1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
 
_______2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

From: Jack Molisani [mailto:jackm@prospring.net]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 5:00 PM
To: Rolfe Dlugy-Hegwer
Subject: contract opening


Hey Rolfe,

I just received the following opening -- want to forward it to some North Bay folk?

TIA,

Jack

TW-586 HR report writer (contract)
Location: Vallejo, CA
Bill rate: TBD

A client is looking for three writers who can interview some subject matter experts, and write a report using the Microsoft Office suite of products. The subject matter is HR and Civil Rights related.

She needs someone who would be available during the day for the next couple of weeks for some on-site work and then on selected dates in October and November for additional on-site work including editing and document prep.

The person must be presentable and professional and able to support a professional consulting team on this assignment.

Requirements:
o. Experience interviewing SME's and writing HR or legal reports

Notes:
o. US citizens only or green card holders only.
o. If interested, apply via the ProSpring website at http://www.prospring.net/Jobs/jobs.html

ProSpring Technical Staffing
ProSpring Documentation Services
www.ProSpring.net
888-378-2333

Important information follows these job listings. Please read it.
Company: Nuance
Position: Proposal Manager
Location: Menlo Park
Starts: immediately
CONTACT: Diane Deutsch, ddeutsch@nuance.com
SUMMARY:
As a Proposal Manager in the Nuance Presales Organization, you will be part
of a dynamic team that consults with Fortune 500 companies in identifying
and deploying complex speech solutions that drives revenues and reduces
costs.  This is an opportunity to exercise your interest in technical
writing, consultative selling, people management, and technology to help
craft, edit and manage compelling proposals used by the North American Sales
Team.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Provide the final editing and formatting of Nuance's RFP/RFI responses and
sales proposals.
· Review and edit sales deliverables including sales proposals, discovery
proposals, Intranet content, and sales presentations.
· Work with the sales team to develop proposals that include a value
propositions, scope, schedule, ROI, and cost estimate.
· Work closely with other organizational members to craft compelling
documentation to support the sales process.
· Manage documentation templates and content used by the sales organization.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
· Minimum of 5 years technical writing/editing experience specifically in
call center technology.
· Advanced knowledge of MS Office, MS Project, Visio and related desktop
publishing tools.
· Familiarity with Proposal Generation Tools (i.e. Pragmatech)
· Strong editing skills - Proof, edit completed work, in either hard copy or
electronic format.
· Experience at a Consulting Firm generating complex proposals.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
· Must have excellent English language skills and technical writing
expertise.
· Needs to be creative, energetic and enthusiastic.
· Ability to abstract and communicate business value and key messages from
complex technical material.
· A thorough and organized approach with attention to detail.
· Excellent project management and multi-tasking skills.
· Team player, able to work under time sensitive deadlines with minimal
supervision.
· An inquisitive mind that stays abreast of technological developments; both
internal and industry trends.
EDUCATION:
BS/BA in related discipline plus 5 to 10 years related experience.
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BayCHI Tutorial
Saturday, October 18, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Santa Clara Marriott Hotel
http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20031018/

Designing Visual Experiences
Kevin Mullet, Experience Design Reactor

The focus of this tutorial is communication-oriented visual design. Learn to exploit the perceptual and emotional qualities of visual stimuli to shape the user's experience. Learn to match the visual qualities of your user experience to the application domain, helping your audience understand the information as efficiently and reliably as possible.

Kevin Mullet is the founder and principal of Experience Design Reactor (http://www.edreactor.com/). Kevin's design experience includes desktop applications, development and authoring tools, web sites and web-based applications, and the "common look and feel" efforts needed to tie them all together. He has written and lectured widely, is a regular SIGCHI contributor, and is co-author of Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication-Oriented Solutions.

For more information or to register, see:

http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20031018/

>Association for Computing Machinery
>Special Interest Group for Design of Communciation (SIGDOC)
>2003 Conference
>
>Early registration ends September 14, 2003!
>For details, see www.acm.org/sigdoc
>
>=============================
>ACM SIGDOC 2003
>
>Finding Real-World Solutions for Documentation:
>How Theory Informs Practice and Practice Informs Theory
>
>October 12-15, 2003
>Financial District Holiday Inn, San Francisco, CA.
>
>http://www.sigdoc2003.cs.uvic.ca/index.html
>
>In the broad field of documentation, the circle of experience,
>abstraction, testing and use can be completed in both directions.
>SIGDOC 2003 provides a forum for documentation specialists, researchers,
>and educators to contribute to a field in which theory informs practice
>and practice informs theory. How can we bring new theoretical or
>methodological frameworks to bear on old problems? How can we take
>advantage of practitioners' experience to advance, improve, or combine the
>methods and methodologies used in documentation? What are the benefits and
>costs if practitioners just ignore user modeling and charge
>ahead? How can we productively model context, activity, documents, and
>users? How does documentation experience affect user modeling? What tools
>enable quick and effective production of documentation and allow writers
>to own the content longer?
>
>SIGDOC 2003 offers a forum for considering these questions and more. Like
>previous SIGDOC conferences, SIGDOC 2003 will be a uniquely intimate and
>affordable conference. The host city of San Francisco provides a
>particularly appropriate backdrop in which to consider the conference
>theme, as the Bay Area is one of the world's leading sites for up-to-date
>practice and leading-edge theory in the field of documentation.