Upcoming STC Seminars
Mark your calendars for these upcoming WebEx seminars.

January 12, 2005
Preemptive Project Planning
Presenter John Hedtke, an STC fellow, is the award-winning author of twenty-three books, most recently RoboHelp for the Web (book and CD, with Brenda Huettner). He has more than twenty-five years’ experience in software and technical communication, including seven years in technical publications management. He has developed and written documentation and books for many leading products and does writing, business, and process consulting for a variety of clients.

January 26, 2005
A Pound of Salt, A Pint of Blood—Getting the Most Out of Your Contractors to Ensure
Project Success
For the past twenty years, presenter Tom White, president of TJW Associates, Inc., in Beaverton, Oregon, has developed information for technical audiences—writing software manuals, creating online documentation, designing training courses, and managing Web sites. Having worked both sides of contracting—as a contractor and as a hiring manager—Tom knows first-hand the pitfalls of ill-conceived client/contractor relationships.

February 2, 2005
Low-Tech Analysis of Sentence Structure: The Sentence Diagram
Technical editors and writers often run across mistakes that will not die: dangling modifiers, misplaced modifiers, faulty parallel structure, and other common errors. An effective way to wean oneself and others away from these errors is the time-honored Reed-Kellogg technique of sentence diagramming. Presenter Ann Jennings is director of the Professional Writing Program and an associate professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown. She teaches technical editing, business and technical report writing, desktop publishing, and writing for the Web. She has published technical articles, book reviews, feature stories, and short stories.

February 9, 2005
Adobe Acrobat 7.0
Presenter Brian Wood will share information about the newly-released Adobe Acrobat 7.0. Please go to https://stc.webex.com/stc/mywebex/default.php?Rnd3527=0.9809833250974338 for additional information about this seminar.

All seminars are held from 1–2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time. Each seminar costs $99 per site for STC members; the nonmember rate is $149 per site. A site can have only one phone connection and one computer connection. Registrants will be issued an enrollment ID, passcode, and phone number when they register and pay for the seminar.

In addition to offering high-quality training at an affordable price, STC’s seminar series features a quick and simple online registration process. Members can sign up for seminars and view detailed descriptions at http://stc.webex.com.