Denise Asplund Edit

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1. 1. Chapter Meeting Information

   www.ebstc.org/newsletter/0503/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/22/2006   Last Visited: 1/19/2008

   Denise Asplund Director, Technical Publications, Siebel Systems, Inc.
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   Denise will speak about the current economy and how their technical publications department is managed through changing times.

2. 2. East Bay Society of Technical Communication--STC

   www.ebstc.org/meeting-archive/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/1/2003   Last Visited: 1/19/2008

   Denise Asplund, Director, Technical Publications, Siebel Systems, Inc. will speak about the current economy and how their technical publications department is managed through changing times.
   
   About our Presenter
   
   Denise has been at Siebel Systems since 1999. Prior to Siebel, Denise worked as an editor at Hewlett-Packard and the University of California. In addition, she has worked as a freelance technical consultant. Denise holds a Bachelor's degree in English from UC Davis.

3. 3. June Chapter Meeting Report

   www.ebstc.org/newsletter/0903/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/1/2003   Last Visited: 1/19/2008

   Denise Asplund Denise Asplund, Director of Technical Publications Resources at Siebel Systems, Inc. in Emeryville, wrapped up the chapter's spring programs in June with a presentation to give us all hope,yes, it is possible to keep the revolving door of documentation from spinning out of control.
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   Asplund noted that the department is unique in that the staff is centralized rather than split out to engineering, support, and marketing groups, and responds to customer needs as defined by product managers.
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   Asplund anticipates that the department will embrace a content management system approach to documentation, put greater emphasis on modular writing, and move to XML. As with so many other companies, Siebel is considering outsourcing its QA work to India.
   
   Asplund says it's a great privilege to work with the group at Siebel. Despite layoffs over the past two years, Siebel is poised to hire again. She cautions that hiring takes a long time and involves a long process of interviews.