An overview of the WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance

The Conference for Software User Assistance

Attending companies:

The focus of the Conference for Software User Assistance is on developing the best possible user experience for all types of software applications through well-designed interfaces and helpful and accessible support information. Here are some informational nuggets extracted from the many sessions at the 2011 Long Beach event.

Registration is open for the 2012 conference in Memphis, Tennessee. Hotel packages are available. Register today!

Click a buzzword: Adobe • Authoring Tools • Captivate • Comics • CSS • DITA • eBooks • eLearning • Embedded UA • FedEx • Glossaries • Help • HTML5 • Hyperlinks • iPhone/iPad • Localization • MadCap • Management • Mac Lion • Metrics • Multimedia • Needs Analysis • Oracle • PDF • Performance Support • Sage • Screen Captures • Simulations • Single Source • SMEs • Social Media • Topic Types • Touch • UI Text • Usability • Video • Visual Communication • Windows 8 •

Many of the conference sessions will feature the use of interactive responseware. Using your own wireless response pad you and your colleagues can instantly respond to questions posed by the presenters and see the aggregate results.

New to User Assistance? The User Assistance 101 certificate program sponsored by Adobe offers you a full afternoon of introductory instruction in more than a dozen key UA topics.

Features three interest areas:
• Emerging Skills
• Tools and Technologies
• Content Strategy

Tools, processes, technologies, and techniques:
• DITA and XML
  • UA for Mobile Devices
   • Writing Techniques
    • HTML5 and CSS3
      • Help
       • Case Studies

The Conference Exhibition is the annual marketplace and showcase for the latest user assistance products and services.

Our exhibition of innovative projects lets you get up close and personal with the practitioners as they demo their work and explain how it was done.

NETWORKING EVENTS
The conference offers a networking reception and two networking luncheons to help you meet colleagues and make new friends.

Free Internet access to all registered attendees


Focus on a specific Conference Interest Area to receive a professional recognition certificate for your specialization. The Certificate Program is free for all attendees.		Your favorite authoring tool vendors will provide three hours of training on the morning of March 11. Admission is free and conference registration is not required.