The 16th Annual WritersUA Conference takes place in Portland, Oregon, and starts on Sunday, March 16, with three supplemental seminars. Joe Welinske, president of WritersUA, has put together another awesome program that covers tools, concepts, Web 2.0, information architecture, and more.

I'm really excited about some of the sessions at this year's conference (of course, I usually am!).

• Sarah O'Keefe is presenting Friend or Foe? The Role of Web 2.0 in User Assistance. Web 2.0 is everywhere (or if it's not there yet, it's coming). Are you ready?
• Luke Wroblewski, Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. and founder of LukeW Interface Designs, is presenting Using Visual Hierarchy to Convey Information. I first met Luke last year when we both presented at the Yggdrasil Conference in Norway, and he has great ideas (and the ability to share them well, too). (And I really love the name of the group he works at..."product ideation".)
• If I wasn't going to Luke's session, I'd go to Guiding Principles of Googley Design with Jon Wiley from Google. I mean, come on...it's Google!
• The Wikibooks Paradigm for Collaborative Content Creation with Andrew Whitworth sounds interesting, too. Andrew will talk about the Wikibooks project, an offshoot of Wikipedia.
• Dave Gash is presenting an Introduction to XSL Transforms. I've suddenly started getting more queries on XSLTs, and Dave has a great way of explaining concepts that make it easy for me to understand.

I'm co-presenting two sessions this year. The first is a panel on issues in Help authoring, which should result in an interesting discussion/debate (given that the panel agrees on some things and not on others). The second is a collaborative editing session with Geoff Hart, where I'll be demoing Geoff's techniques in conjunction with many of today's popular HATs.

The agenda also includes hands-on tutorials (usually double sessions), tools, DITA and XML, and more. Visit the conference website for more information.

Hope to see you there!