Welcome to The ToolBook® User's Conference / e-Learning Authoring Conference

The ToolBook User's Conference is the leading conference for developers who author with ToolBook. Co-located with the e-Learning Authoring Conference, this is the best source for "how to" tips on creating e-Learning content in ToolBook, Flash, and other technologies. It is also has a special track for e-Learning managers. You can:

  • Meet other developers
  • Learn the latest techniques for creating e-Learning
  • Trade training and development stories
  • Get inside information about ToolBook, Flash, Silverlight, .NET, and related technologies
  • Improve your knowledge of SCORM, estimating, quality assurance, and project management
  • Have a great time
Mark your calendars for August 3 - 5, 2009 (preconference training August 1 and 2)
We hope that you will join us each summer for what we think is the world's best conference for training and web developers.

By the way, great experience at my first TBCON last week! Good presentations, friendly people, and good take aways! Can't wait to get my hands on the presenter's materials!

   -- comment from a 2008 attendee

EeLS European eLearning Summit 2008

I can emphatically state that attending my very first TBCON has been one of the most defining moments of my business. The business has not been the same ever since I've learned how to integrate a database with a ToolBook file. After making our entire CBT load from a database, we then used the VBTrain.Net controls and what we learned at TBCON to do the same thing with our ASP.NET content. The nice part is that we create a web version or a tbk version literally at the click of a button. Unlike the past, we now spend most of our time proofing rather than assembling, which is a really good thing.

   -- Kim Halat, Avsoft, Inc., 2004

Personally, TBCON accelerates my knowledge and ability to efficiently use ToolBook by at least six months each year I have attended. I find it a very easy investment to cost-justify. And, on top of that, it is a lot of FUN!

   -- comment from a 2002 attendee

This is the only conference I have ever attended that is not primarily a sales pitch. Great job!

   -- comment from a 2005 attendee

TBCON 2008 "Archives For Attendees" Available
Download the sample applications and presentations from the 40+ ToolBook User's Conference / e-Learning Conference sessions. At only $50, this is a real steal!

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TBCON 2008 Resources
While the 2008 edition of The ToolBook User's Conference / e-Learning Authoring Conference is over, you can still get a taste of it by viewing the group photo, ToolBook Design Award and hack ack winners, and more.

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Marketing Opportunities
Do you have a product for ToolBook, Flash, and/or e-Learning developers using other tools? Are you a consultant or development company that uses these or related authoring systems? Sponsor part of the conference or "show your stuff" at a product showcase.

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ToolBook Instructor 9 Available for Purchase from Platte Canyon
ToolBook developers in the U.S. and Canada may now upgrade to the exciting new ToolBook Instructor 9 release. Fully 32-bit, this version adds SmartPages and SmartStyles, the Book Explorer, support for Internet Explorer 7, an enhanced user interface, improved assessments, and more. Receive a $50 credit off the 2004 ToolBook User's Conference / e-Learning Authoring Conference or off any Platte Canyon product with each upgrade. Or receive $100 for each full version purchased!

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Why Attend TBCON?
Need to sell the value of TBCON to your boss (or yourself)? Peter Jackson and Robin McDermott demonstrate the return on investment in this great article. And that's not even counting all the fun!

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Attendee Comments:
  • I thoroughly enjoyed the conference. I made some good contacts and was very impressed by the cooperation exhibited by attendees, both individuals and vendors. It's quite a refreshing change from some experiences in the past.  (2008)
  • You and your staff produce a wonderful conference. Everyone is so approachable and friendly with the conference enjoyable and knowledgeable!!  (2007)
  • Great value - a unique opportunity for "one-stop" learning.  (2007)
  • Paid for itself in one session.  (2006)
  • I have to say you can tell you folks put in a lot of effort making the conference a success. Thank you for all you did. I really enjoyed it and hope to return.  (2006)
  • Gorgeous location!! Not only beautiful, but seemed to be fairly central for the origins of the attendees.  (2005)
  • Excellent conference, great people, a little bit for everyone--beginners to advanced.  (2004)
  • This was my first conference and it was great! I will definitely attend future conferences. I'm amazed at how much I've learned in just three days!  (2003)
  • I wanting to take this opportunity to THANK YOU both for TBCON 2001. I learned so much! At one point about a month ago, I was working in TB and ran in to a situation using some canned widget and just could not get it to work correctly. Within about 10 minutes, I had a script that did the same thing only better! My apps are much more efficient to the end user as well. My boss looked at my latest work and immediately asked ... "Did you learn this at the conference?"  (2001)
  • It kind of reminds me of something Johnny Carson used to do with the "Amazing Karnack" where he would hold the envelope up to his head and name the content inside based on some clue written on the outside. In this case I could envision the outside saying "Sex and Platte Canyon' s ToolBook Conference". The inside would say "name two great experiences you have to personally be a player in order to appreciate". Words do not describe the value and rewards from attending this conference. I continue to tell my management that if there is only one thing we get to attend due to budgetary issues I want it to be this conference.  (2001)
  • Great! I learned so much more than even last year!  (2000)
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