02/17/10 7 pm ET – Topic-Based Authoring

Working in a Use Case or Scenario-based Environment

A Webinar with John Hedtke, STC Fellow

You know topic-based authoring will save you time and effort in your authoring and publishing projects. If you’re working in a use case or scenario development environment, you also know topic-based authoring will make your life easier. But how do you plan these projects? How do you identify what topics are? And how do you plan the other related tasks?

This webinar will show you how to:

• Identify the topics that need documentation from the engineering use cases
• Estimate the authoring time for each topic
• Identify the documentation tasks for each topic
• Plan related graphics
• Create the project schedule
• Deliver results on time and to schedule

Regardless of the tool you use to author and publish, this webinar will help you understand the basics of planning and estimating in this common development environment.

About our speaker:

John Hedtke is the award-winning author of 26 books. He has over 30 years in the software business, close to 30 years writing, and 7 years in technical publications management. John has developed and written documentation and books for many leading software products, and has received 26 writing awards to date. He regularly contributes articles to magazines such as Publish! and Accounting Technology. A complete list of books, articles, projects, and awards can be found online at his Web site, www.hedtke.com.

John’s company offers writing and business consulting services to private, public, and government clients. John is a former member of STC Board of Directors and is a Fellow of the Society.

Logistics: It’s a WEBINAR, which means you participate online from the comfort of your home! Because our speaker is on the West Coast, the program will be starting a little later than usual, at 7 pm ET.

Registration Deadline: Monday, February 15, by 12 noon ET.
To register, send an email to program@stc-swo.org.  Please include your name, email address, membership status (member, non-member, or student).

Cost and Payment

Everyone must pay in advance via PayPal. Fees cover the costs of webinar connections through Genesys, the webinar service used by STC.

Members – $12.00
Non-Members – $20.00
Students -$12.00
Here’s the procedure:

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5. Review the information on the confirmation page.
6. Click Send Money to complete your transaction.

Note: If you do not have a Paypal account, yiou can pay vai credit or debit card on the Paypal page. Follow the ow the on-screen instructions.

We must have your reservations and payment by Monday, Feb. 16 by noon because we will send all registered participants a URL with Web site login information and a phone number to call to participate in the webinar. Please note that your registration is not confirmed until we have received funds from you via PayPal.

Please also note that more than one person can participate in the webinar at one site via speakerphone—but only one reservation and payment is required per site. So, a group can get together to attend this webinar and share the cost.