Newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication, San Francisco Chapter April/May 2008 |
The May meeting is on Wednesday, May 20, 2008, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Elephant & Castle in San Francisco's financial district. For details about the location and instructions for purchasing tickets, visit www.stc-sf.org/stc-meetings.htm.
Symantec has the Yellow Book. IBM has the Red Book. Other large companies have other versions of this book type. What is this, and how do you write one? This presentation uses a real project as an example. You will learn to how plan, structure, and then write one of these books.
Gilbert Gonzalez is an award-winning technical publications professional with over 19 years' experience planning, creating, editing, and updating technical documents for end-users, system administrators, and developers.
Gilbert is a Senior Information Developer at Symantec Corporation and the president of the San Francisco Chapter STC.