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7:00 - 9:00 pm Dinner and program

Re-aim your career by attending this irreverent, heretical, and creative review of how the profession has lurched and spun as it digested word processing, desktop publishing, online documentation, and the World Wide Web. And how it must now adapt to a global economy obsessed with videogames, outsourcing, and the Go-go-googlfication of information. We will discuss trends, fads, and speculations such as essentialism, dilettantism, de-skilling, and habits of highly ineffective technical communicators.

William Horton

Engage in an evening of professional introspection led by a practitioner whose career has spanned these developments.

About the Speaker: William Horton, President of William Horton Consulting, Inc., has been designing technology-based training since 1971 when, as an undergraduate, he designed a network-based course for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Engineering Study.  

William is an internationally sought-after speaker and instructor. He has delivered presentations to the Distance Learning Conference in Madison , the Human Resources Association National Congress in Sao Paulo , the Information Technology Training Association conference in Barcelona , the Knowledge Management Seminarium in Stockholm , the Institute for Information Industry in Taipei , and the Asian Development Bank in Manila and Tokyo . He is a registered Professional Engineer, an MIT graduate, and Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication. He is a recipient of ACM's Rigo Award for contributions to software documentation, IEEE's Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for contributions to engineering communications, and the IF Award ( Germany ) for industrial design. He recently served on ASTD's eCC (E-learning Courseware Certification) Committee, which drafted quality standards for evaluating e-learning courses.

William Horton is a prolific author. His books include Designing Web-Based Training, Designing and Writing Online Documentation, Leading E-learning, Evaluating E-learning, Using E-learning, and Secrets of User-Seductive Documents. He is co-author of E-learning Tools and Technologies (with his wife Kit), Getting Started in Online Learning, and The Web Page Design Cookbook.