Newsletter of the East Bay Chapter of STC
January/February 2004

Chapter Meeting Information

Upcoming Meetings

Attending meetings is a great way to learn new things and connect with technical writers around the East Bay. For details on meeting location and reservations, see the meetings page on the chapter web site.

Date	Speaker	Topic
February 5	Beau Cain heads a panel from the Bay Area chapters: Eunice Malley (Berkeley), Rolfe Dlugy-Hegwer (NorthBay), Marie Highby (Silicon Valley), Susan Becker (San Francisco).	Trends in Technical Communication After the life-devouring dot-com boom and the savings-devouring dot-bomb bust comes the inevitable question: can we survive whatever's next? What's happening to the tools that help us rapidly produce top-quality work? Which old skills will definitely serve us in the near and long term, and what new ones must we acquire in order to succeed? Local panelists will offer their well-studied insights. Be there to encourage the panelists to make predictions, and take full advantage of our shared knowledge
March 6	Elaine Winters	Translating Documents into Foreign Languages

December Program

We enjoyed an entertaining and informative presentation, “Don’t Make Me Do That!”, from STC Fellow Lance Gelein. You can view the slides from our chapter web site.

Winners of the December Raffle

Richard Mateosian

Richard Mateosian won Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug (donated by Mountford Group, Inc.).

Ken Evans won a disk holder (donated by Sapphire Technologies).

Speaker Lance Gelein picks the next ticket after winning Robohelp Screen Capture software (donated by eHelp).

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