The thirteenth ISTC Annual Conference "Expanding Your Horizons" will be hosted by The Oxford Belfry, Milton Common, Nr Thame, Oxfordshire OX9 2JW during the weekend of 8th, 9th & 10th October 2004.

A stunning courtyard complete with stone ornamentation and fountain provides the focal point around which the conference rooms are located. Having undergone a multi-million pound refurbishment, it is a superb four star hotel conveniently situated just off the M40.

As always, Conference provides the perfect opportunity for thought provoking debate as well as stimulating delegates with new ideas that will lead to improvement in the long term. The best ways to move forward is when you learn from the experience of others. So, imagine two days when some of the best brains and personalities from within the industry are together sharing their ideas and knowledge.

"Expanding Your Horizons" is designed to challenge every delegate to rethink and re-evaluate both their job and themselves in the face of a fast changing marketplace. Putting together the programme, we have tried to cover some of the strategic and every day issues that we face as well as covering technical writing as a whole.

A new item this year will be the Indexing Workshop on the Saturday morning. Hosted by Derek Copson of the Society of Indexers and aimed at Technical Communicators, this promises to be a useful new addition to conference. Along with the workshop will be presentations from some of the leaders in their fields and including subjects such as "Expanding your writing horizons", "Standards in information & process management", "Document usability", "Presenting numbers, tables and charts" and many more.

The ISTC Conference prepares to celebrate the very best in technical communicating. Despite what some might say, technical communicating has never been easy and as market conditions change, it will probably get tougher. So, there is never a better time than now for us all to get together and learn from one another, in other words, to expand your horizons!

The ISTC Conference provides a regular forum where we can get together and share and learn from each other to our mutual benefit, so please give Conference your full support! Don't miss out on a weekend of presentations, workshops, exhibition, gala dinner and much, much more - all in relaxed and carefree surroundings.

For more information please contact the Conference Organiser:

Ann Little
A Little Creation,
67 Carlyon Avenue,
South Harrow,
Middlesex HA2 8ST
Email: ann@alittlecreation.fsnet.co.uk or little-ann@talk21.com
Tel/Fax: 020 8422 4689