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Twenty-twenty vision: Looking forward, looking back

SfEP AGM and 19th Annual Conference
7–9 September 2008
St Catherine's College, Oxford

Provisional programme

SUNDAY 7 SEPTEMBER
4.00–6.00 Registration (refreshments available from 4.15pm)
5.00                Annual General Meeting
6.30 'Meet the Council' for conference first timers
7.00 Dinner

MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER
8.00–9.00 Breakfast
9.00–9.30 Registration (tea/coffee available)
9.30 Plenary: Welcome by SfEP chair, and notices
9.40–10.40 English on the internet David Crystal
10.40–11.45 Refreshments and exhibition
11.45–12.45 Careering around: Developing an international freelance career, Elizabeth Wager
12.45–2.00 Served lunch
2.00–3.30 Workshops (running concurrently)
  • Effective copywriting: Getting your message across in print and online media, Tim Trout, Tim Trout Copywriting
  • Pricing strategies – don't miss out on just rewards, Eleanor Stanley
  • Wild card search and replace, Kathleen Lyle
  • Computer housekeeping – customise your software and protect your PC, Tina Allen
  • Editing for business – what makes it different, Chris Shevlin, Taylor-made Communications
  • Introduction to HTML, David Penfold
3.30–4.00 Refreshments
4.00–5.00 SfEP 20th-anniversary special: Looking forward, looking back
7.00 Drinks reception
8.00–9.30 Conference dinner
9.30– Dancing and bar

TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
8.00–9.00 Breakfast
9.00–9.10 Day delegate registration (tea/coffee available)
9.10–9.15 Plenary: Notices
9.15–10.45 Workshops (running concurrently)
  • Indexing for editors working with non-publishers, Ann Hudson, Society of Indexers
  • Macro magic, Anne Waddingham
  • Networking skills – how to mix business with breakfast, Sara Hulse
  • Development editing, Jane Ward
  • Collective wisdom – what are the best reference sources?Rod Cuff
  • Editing with TEX – learn about this versatile software, Sandy Nicholson
10.45–11.10 Refreshments
11.10–12.10 Whitcombe Lecture: Charlotte Brewer, Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford and author of Treasure-House of the Language: The Living OED
12.15–12.45 Software demonstrations (running concurrently)
12.45–2.00 Lunch
2.00–3.30 Seminars (running concurrently):
  • Introduction to copyright, Tim Padfield, Information Policy Consultant, National Archives
  • Editorial project management: Communicate to succeed, Barbara Horn
  • Technologies to support an information publisher, Phil Caisley, Head of Information Services, BMJ Publishing Group
3.30 Close: SfEP chair
4.00 Tea and depart

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