Newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication, San Francisco Chapter
February/March 2007
| Newsletter of the Society for Technical Communication, San Francisco Chapter February/March 2007 |
The February meeting is on Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 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.
What is podcasting, why is it important to me, and how can I get in on it? Jerry will answer these questions by presenting a brief overview of podcasting in the corporate world, also including a few examples of how podcasts are being used to deliver technical information.
Jerry will spend most of the presentation providing an overview and high-level tutorial on Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net/eabout/), the free audio editing software that has enabled many people both with and without technical backgrounds to engineer and produce their own podcasts.
Jerry Franklin is a freelance technical and marketing writer for a range of high-tech clients. Before becoming a freelancer, Jerry was the lone technical writer at Bricsnet, a small private software company in San Francisco. Prior to Bricsnet, Jerry worked at another small private software company, ZANTAZ, in Pleasanton. Prior to that, Jerry worked at PeopleSoft, where he managed content for www.peoplesoft.com before transitioning into technical writing elsewhere in the company.
Jerry became involved with podcasting when he began helping his wife build her business as a certified dog trainer. Their podcast, The Good Dog Show, may be found at www.dogworks.libsyn.com.
Jerry belongs to the STC, the IEEE Professional Communication Society, and the ACM SIGDOC. He lives in Alameda with his wife and, of course, two dogs. Contact Jerry at audacityguy@gmail.com.