Date:
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Times (p.m.): 5:30 to 6:00 Networking & conversation; 6:00 to 7:00 Buffet dinner; 7:00 to 8:00 Awards and Recognition; 8:00 to 9:00 More conversations, see the award-winning entries
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Berkeley STC Annual Party and Touchstone Awards
Date:
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic: Working with FrameMaker, RoboHelp, and Captivate in Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.5 Speaker: Dustin Vaughn of Adobe Systems
Date:
Wednesday, October 14, 2011
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic: The Management Perspective Speakers: Van Shackelford (EFI), Valerie Steele (NetSuite), and Katherine Wenc (Apple)
Date:
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic: Proposal and Grant Writing 101 Speaker: Judy Herr
Date:
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic: Rules of thumb for using color in your content
Speaker:
Greg Urban
Date:
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic: Managing Multiple Information Channels: Strategies for Effective Presentations
Speaker:
Joe Devney
Date:
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Optimizing your Portfolio: Are you ready for a bidding war for your services?
Speaker:
Andrew Davis, of Content Rules
Date:
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Turning Content Into Gold: A Presentation and Work Session
Speaker:
Paula Toth, of TechProse
Date:
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Mental Models: Identifying the Right Content Starts with Really Knowing Your Audience
Speaker:
Indi Young
Date:
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Creating Custom Search for Your Content Speaker:
Kevin G. Lim of Google
Date:
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
How Microsoft SharePoint Gives You a Realistic Approach to Content Management Speaker:
Dan Beall of ComponentOne
Slides from Dan's talk:
Handout PDF
Date:
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Times (p.m.): 5:30 to 6:00 Networking & conversation; 6:00 to 7:00 Buffet dinner; 7:00 to 8:00 Awards and Recognition; 8:00 to 9:00 More conversations, see the award-winning entries
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Berkeley STC Annual Party and Touchstone Awards
Date:
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Designing with the Mind in Mind: The Psychological Basis for UI Design Rules Speaker:
Jeff Johnson of UIwizards.com
Date:
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
The Power of ePubs: Easily Creating Cross-device Online and Offline Content without Programming Speaker:
Silke Fleischer and Eric Converse, both of ATIV Software.
Silke and Eric's slides
Date:
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Technical Communicators and Their Role in Stopping Brain Drain Speaker:
Gina Gotsill and Ken Ball, both of Techprose.
Date:
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
In the Trenches with DITA Speakers:
Mysti Berry of Salesforce, Ben Colborn of Citrix, and Tom Idleman of FICO.
Mysti's handout:Handout for DITA panel
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Date:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Focus On the User and the Rest Follows: Developing Personas to Improve Your Content Speaker:
Joan Lasselle and Jana Humphreys, both of Lasselle-Ramsay, Inc.
Date:
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
The Management Perspective: A Panel of Tech Pubs Managers from Around the Bay Area
Speaker:
Stewart Florsheim, Advent Software, Kim Shain from Adobe, and Pat oshihiro from EFI.
Date:
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Writing for People and Situations When Reading Is Not Easy (a report from a CHI 2010 workshop)
Date:
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Developing and Delivering Documentation in a Wiki
Date:
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
What Medical Writers Do
Date:
Wednesday, February 10, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Beyond the Practitioners' Lore: Reading the Research
Date:
Saturday, January 16, 2009
Times (p.m.): 5:30 to 6:00 Networking & conversation; 6:00 to 7:00 Buffet dinner; 7:00 to 8:00 Awards and Recognition; 8:00 to 9:00 More conversations, see the award-winning entries
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Berkeley STC Annual Party and Touchstone Awards
Date:
Wednesday, December 9, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
How Technical Communication Supports High School Literacy
Date:
Wednesday, November 11, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Planning for Success
Date:
Wednesday, October 14, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Ten Legal Tips for Current and Would-be Independent Contractors
Date:
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Times (p.m.): 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Location:
Global 360 Offices, Alameda, California
Topic:
Topic-based Authoring: Getting Your Feet Wet
Date:
Wednesday, September 9, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Forensic Linguistics: Real-Life “CSI” with Word People
Date:
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Times (p.m.): 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Strategic Planning for Your Life
Date:
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Acting Lessons for Interviewees
Date:
Wednesday, July 8, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Resume Secrets that Might Surprise You
Date:
Wednesday, June 10, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Software Localization Practices and Issues
Date:
Wednesday, May 13, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
MythBusters: I'm Working So Hard It Hurts!
Speaker:
Erik Anderson of Remedy Interactive, Tim Brent, Ergonomic Consultant, and Tonie Flores of OSIsoft
Date:
Wednesday, April 8, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Hard Times, Smart Choices
Date:
Wednesday, March 11, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Using Word Templates Effectively and in the Shared Environment
Date:
Wednesday, February 11, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Learning Game Design
Date:
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Times (p.m.): 5:30 to 6:00 Networking & conversation; 6 to 7 Buffet dinner; 7:00 to 8 Awards and Recognition; 8 to 9 More conversations, see the award-winning entries
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Berkeley STC Annual Party and Touchstone Awards
Date:
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Write More, Write Less: Embracing the value of crafted words and images
Date:
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Times (p.m.): 6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
A Glimpse of Microsoft SharePoint: What is it, and how does it relate to tech writing?
Date:
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Times (p.m.):
6:00 to 7:00 Networking, conversation, & dinner; 7:00 Announcements; 7:15 Presentation
Location:
Highlands Country Club, Oakland, California
Topic:
Content Page Design Best Practices
Speaker:
Luke Wroblewski of Yahoo! Inc. and LukeW Interface Design
Date:
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Topic:
Avoiding Death by PowerPoint (Why are good presentations so hard to create?)
Speaker:
Rick Altman of betterppt.com
Date:
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Topic:
Moving from FrameMaker/WebWorks to XML/DITA and Flare at Salesforce.com
Speaker:
Mysti Berry of Salesforce.com Slides:Slide PDF available here.
Date:
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Topic:
Management Panel: Putting Together the Right Team
Speakers:
David Jackson of Oracle, Lis Fraser of Tesla Motors, Stewart Florsheim of Advent Software, and Judy Burkhart of IBM
Date:
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Topic:
Using Learning Objects to Manage and Reuse Learning Content
Speakers:
Ray Eisenberg and David Sanchez, Autodesk
Slides:
Presentation slides in PPT format
Date:
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Topic:
Adobe's Technical Communication Suite and Adobe RoboHelp 7 (Special Presentation)
Speakers:
Michael Hu and others, Adobe, Inc.
Date:
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Topic:
Lessons Learned from Web Applications and User Centered Design
Speakers:
Sarah B. Nelson and David Verba, Adaptive Path
Date:
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Topic:
Writing for a Developer Audience: User Assistance for an Integrated Development Environment
Speakers:
Kathryn Munn, Oracle Corporation
Date:
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Topic:
Increasing Visibility and Value: Reframing the Work We Do
Speakers:
Linda Urban (Linda Urban Communications, LLC) and Joan Lasselle (Lasselle-Ramsey, Inc.)
Date:
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Topic:
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Resumes and Portfolios
Speaker:
Andrew Davis, Synergistech Communications, Inc.