Newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication, San Francisco Chapter October/November 2004

October 2004 Meeting -- Fitting WebWorks Publisher Into a Publications Workflow
Presented by Steve Homer

The October meeting is on Wednesday, October 20, 2004, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the London Wine Bar in San Francisco's financial district. For details about the meeting location and instructions for purchasing tickets, visit www.stc-sf.org/stc-meetings.htm.

About the Presentation

This session offers a brief overview of WebWorks Publisher Pro 2003 and describes how this tool fits into a publications workflow.

We will address the following questions:

• How do you choose the best help authoring tool for your situation?
• Are you doing "single-sourcing" if you use WebWorks?
• What types of publications workflows lend themselves to single-sourcing?
• What types of organizations will find single-sourcing irritating?
• How does the size of your organization affect how a help authoring tool fits into your workflow?
• What kinds of customizations can you make to WebWorks output?

About the Speaker

Steve Homer (www.homertechpubs.com) is a consultant and freelance technical writer who specializes in setting up single-sourcing workflows for clients. He also writes documentation for engineering software and hardware applications. Steve is a Senior Member of the STC and has been a technical writer since 1984.

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