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General details about our meetings

ASTC meetings give technical writers a chance to meet and discuss their problems face to face, and to hear presentations on topics of professional interest.

The Central Sydney Technical Communicators group meets on the first Wednesday of every month, from 12.30 to 1.30pm.

Venue & time

Offices of Tactics−TP3 Group
HSBC Building, Level 21
580 George Street, City – just a few metres from Town Hall Station

Bring your lunch with you to eat during the meeting.

For more information, contact Bede Sunter.

Past Meetings

Here are some of the meetings you may have missed...

• Typography in the service of plain language and the zero-tolerance approach to using templates and styles in Word (pdf, 51Kb)
  presented by Bede Sunter.
• Plain Language in business ... Why are we still having the conversation?
  presented by Susan McKerihan, an experienced editor in a leading Australian professional services firm.
  Susan examined reasons for the continued examples of unclear writing, given that the modern plain English movement has been active and vocal for decades and is now widely promoted.
• HelpServer - web-based Help authoring and delivery
  presented by Peter Meyer of Elkera
• Sarbanes-Oxley - practical implementations
  Pre-meeting notes, meeting report (pdf, 53Kb)
  presented by Steve Hudson
• XML, why would you bother? presented by Peter Meyer.
• Graphics deconstructed - meeting report (pdf, 65Kb)
  presented by Daryl Colquhoun.
• Single-sourcing - How is it shaping up?
  Pre-meeting notes
• A Grammar Interactive, presented by Deb Doyle
  Pre-meeting notes, meeting report (pdf, 68Kb)
• How to run meetings
  Presented by Brian Clarke
• Word macros
• Help - A tidal wave of change
  A heads up on the new Help architecture (pdf, 27Kb)
• Word numbering
• InDesign - exploring the latest from Adobe
  Meeting report (pdf, 47Kb)
• Dreamweaver - why it might be the Web tool for you
  Meeting report (pdf, 118Kb)
• PDFs -- with the opportunity given, and taken, for members to bring along their troublesome PDFs and have them 'fixed'
  PDF jam session report (pdf, 93Kb)
• Accreditation of technical writers
• RoboHelp - a virtual meeting, with a member of Macromedia’s RoboHelp team
  Insights for RoboHelp users (pdf, 179Kb)

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