Category Archives: Events

Chapter meeting announcements

Online Teaching and Accessibility in a Pandemic

Speaker: Audrey Blumeneau About the presentation The COVID-19 Pandemic changed our lives, jobs, and routines in so many ways. In the world of education, teachers moved mountains to pivot from in-classroom instruction to fully online practically overnight. Over the past … Continue reading

Posted in Events | Tagged , | Comments Off on Online Teaching and Accessibility in a Pandemic

So let it be written…

Speaker: Steve Harang About the presentation Technical program managers (TPMs) keep technical programs on track. If you want to write good documentation without last-minute surprises, if you want to get the information you need when you need it, if you … Continue reading

Posted in Events | Tagged | Comments Off on So let it be written…

The Future of Tech Comm: Structured Authoring, The Internet of Things, and Documentation 4.0 

Speaker: Jack Molisani A Joint Presentation of the San Francisco Bay and SoCal Chapters of STC About the presentation In many companies, various forms of content are created and maintained by different departments, often using different authoring tools. Even a … Continue reading

Posted in Events | Tagged | Comments Off on The Future of Tech Comm: Structured Authoring, The Internet of Things, and Documentation 4.0 

Writing for The Future: Content Over Context 

Speaker: Curtiss Pope About the presentation How writing, from technical to content writing is currently shaped, targeted, and distributed, and how the future of writing, may not be writing. About the speaker I was born and raised in the Bay Area. … Continue reading

Posted in Events | Tagged | Comments Off on Writing for The Future: Content Over Context 

Usability and Technical Writing: A 30-year Perspective

Speaker: Nicki Davis About the presentation Technical writing is a solution; what problem are we trying to solve? Our goal is to make it easier for people to use a product to get something done. Usability testing is one of … Continue reading

Posted in Events | Comments Off on Usability and Technical Writing: A 30-year Perspective