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Past Meetings Archive

The formats of presentations for past meetings vary. Presentations that are links to web sites other than OCSTC are not under our control. While every attempt is made to periodically verify the links to those sites, the links to those presentations could be moved or withdrawn at any time.

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Thomas Cutting, January 2010, "Grabbing Authority"


John Hall, August 2009, "Career Management in a Tough Economy"


Saul Carliner, July 2009, "The Way We Work What Research Suggests about the Real-World Practice of Technical Communication and Training Groups"


Walter Hanig, May 2009, "Tomorrow's Technical Communication Skills"

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Acrobat PDF Format You can also check Walter Hanig's still-popular and timely 2001 STC Region 8 Conference presentation, What? Me Manage? Adobe Acrobat PDF (PDF 209K)


Mary Ann Howell, August 2008, "Seven Steps to Minimalist Writing"

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Jack O'Connell, Calif. State Superintendent of Public Instruction, July 2008, "Closing the Achievement Gap"

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Sue Fisher, May 2008, Creating a Flexibility Matrix


Jeff Randolph's Presentations

April 2009, "How to Make Your Websites Google-Friendly. Presented at San Fernando Valley STC, April 23, 2009"

November 2008, "How to Make Your Websites Google-Friendly: The Sequel"

April 2008, "Technical Communicators in the Biomedical/Biotech/Medical Device Industry: Some Core Competencies to Consider"

October 2006

How to Make Your Websites and Web Pages Google Friendly

June 2004

State of OCSTC and STC Changes

February 2001

Introduction to Active Server Pages (updated for presentation at STC-Berkeley, February 2003)


Barbara Giammona, November 2007

What Technical Communicators Need to Succeed in the Real World


Neil Perlin, October 2007

Structured Authoring without DITA or Frame


Jack Molisani's Presentations

July 2007

How to Build a Business Case

July 2006

How to Make a Six-Figure Income as a Technical Communicator

May 2002

Why Customers Call Tech Support and What Tech Writers Can Do About It

August 1999

The Top 10 Common Mistakes People Make When Looking for a Job


Linda Oestreich, June 2007

Mindmaps: Changing Chaos to Clarity

Additional Resource: Brian Mayne's Goal Mapping: Follow the Seven Simple Steps to Create the Life of Your Dreams


Hans Fenstermacher, February 2007

From World-Weary to World-Ready: Meeting the Challenge of Today's Global Content


Sue Heim, January 2007

Indexing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly


Leah Guren, May 2006

It May Be GUI, but it Doesn't Have to Be Messy.


Bill DuBay, October 2005

The Basics of Plain Language.

Additional plain language resources located at the Impact Information website.


Ken Brod, July 2005

Common Pitfalls in Policies and Procedures and How to Avoid Them.


Renato S. Beninatto, June 2005

Design Practices for Global Gateways.


Ted Seastrom, April 2005

Project Management for Technical Writers.


Lisa Jahred, March 2005

Conversion Tips: FrameMaker to Acrobat. Related Resources, Tutorials and Quick References.

Additional resources and tutorials are located at the InformIT website (search for "jahred").


Matthew Stern's Presentations

December 2004

Introduction to JavaDoc

January 2003

Public Speaking for Technical Communicators


Lance Gelein's Presentations

November 2004

December 2002

May 2000

December 1998


Vince Francis and Mary Goon, October 2004

Improving Documentation Through Two-Stage Customer Feedback 


Jean Gabriel, April 2004

Avoiding the 10 Common Mistakes of Beginning Indexers


De Murr's Presentations

September 2003

Using Metrics to Tell Your Story

August 2002

Working with Difficult People


Andrea Ames, July 2003

Designing for People: Human Factors for Technical Communicators


Bringin' the 49th STC Conference Home: A Panel Discussion, June 2002

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Elaine Randolph, April 2002

Usability 101 (Last modified for the STC-Berkeley chapter meeting September 11, 2002)

Usability Bibliography


Finding Opportunity: A Panel Discussion Led by Matthew Stern, March 2002

Finding Opportunity in a Difficult Economy  


Tom Webb, October 2001

Creating XML Documents for the Web  


William Horton, September 2001

Say It in Pictures -- Visual Literacy for Instructional Designers, UI Developers, Information Architects, and Technical Writers  


Bringing the STC Conference Home: A Panel Discussion of OCSTC Attendees, June 2001

Richard Lederer: Conan the Grammarian (the following are reprinted by permission of the author)


Bill Stolgitis, January 2001

The Value of STC Membership


Past Meets Future: A Discussion with Former and Current OCSTC Presidents and Leaders

June 2000

A Panel Discussion featuring 13 OCSTC leaders throughout the chapters' history. The following presentations are available:


Mark Hanigan, March 2000

The Plug and Play Technical Communicator


Mark Dawson & Mike Russo, February 2000

Web Based Training vs. Computer Based Training: Just What Are They?


Bonni Graham, December 1999

Psst! Wanna Buy Some Doc?


Jim Desmond & Patti Booher, May 1999

Acrobat PDF Format You can also check Jim Desmond's still-popular STC 45th Annual Conference presentation, How to Use an Employment Service as Your Marketing Department Adobe Acrobat PDF (26K)

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