Upcoming Event!

Hey, Bay Area/Silicon Valley videobloggers and future videobloggers! I’m giving a talk at the STC Silicon Valley this month, and it’s all about videoblogging! This is a great way to get a quick introduction to videoblogging and take a look at the book to decide if you want to buy it (copies will be available).

Here are the details:
September meeting of Technical/API Docs SIG: “An Introduction to Videoblogging”

Speaker:
Stephanie Cottrell Bryant, Vlog pioneer and author of “”Videoblogging for Dummies”

Meeting Date and Time:
Wednesday, September 27th, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
R.S.V.P. to Viki Maki, vmaki -at- bitzone.com, by September 25th, 12 noon

Please join us for the September meeting of the STC Silicon Valley Chapter Technical/API Docs SIG and hear about this cutting-edge technology. Note that the meeting is free of charge and that you do not have to be an STC member to attend. To subscribe to our Yahoo group, send an email to: svcstcapi-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

Meeting Abstract:
Have you ever felt the urge to share the entertaining and insightful things that happen in your everyday world? Got a message you’d like to get across to others? A cause you want people to support? A videoblog allows you to share whatever you
choose in a colorful, interesting way that gets attention—and furthermore, videoblogging is fun!
The presentation will cover:
-Subscribing to and watching videoblogs
-Setting up and posting a videoblog
-Planning a videoblog strategy to meet professional goals

Meeting Location:
IES Classroom Building
384 South Second Street
San Jose, CA 95112-2711

About the Speaker:
Stephanie Bryant has been a technical writer and book author for 10 years, covering semiconductors to HTML and graphic design. She writes hardware and software documentation, ranging from end-user manuals to APIs, and has written several books on Internet and graphic arts technologies. She’s also been a teacher, an amusement park worker, and a web designer.

She is the author of a new book, “Videoblogging for Dummies,” and maintains a website for the book with extra tips and suggestions, as well as a videoblog for readers, at http://www.mortaine.com/vlogdummies/.

For a map and driving directions, see http://iesweb.sjsu.edu/profdev/about/locations.html