Telephone Seminar Handouts

by Ted Edwins, Past-President

The chapter has some leftover handouts from telephone seminars held in 2003. These handouts are copies of PowerPoint presentations. The content of the handouts varies from talking points to detailed discussions with lists of resources. 

Available Handouts

The following handouts are available:

1.  Organizing and Leading a Software User Interface Design Team, Jan 8/03. 
Presented by Diane Feldman and Carla Merill. 36 pages. Qty. 5. Detailed.

This three-part seminar discusses the technical communicator's leadership role in user interface design. Because goal-oriented and customer-friendly design is driven by our professional skills, technical communicators are ideal candidates for leading a user interface (UI) design effort.

Part 1, "Why Should I Create a User Interface Design Team?", provides an overview of the UI design process.

Part 2, "How Do I Organize the Team?", discusses how to select team members, how to gain support from senior management, and how to set up the first UI design team meeting.

Part 3, "How Do I Lead the Team?", teaches participants how to lead core design team and extended design team meetings, and how to present and verify the design team's results.

2.  Creating Persuasive Executive Summaries, Feb 5/03. 
Presented by Stacia Kelly. 30 pages. Qty. 1. Detailed.

Do you think your executive summaries could be tighter? Cleaner? Provide a more polished view of your services to your clients? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need to attend this seminar. You will learn how to develop a professional, persuasive Executive Summary that will get your proposals in the hands of the decision makers, and get you results. This seminar will take you through all the steps necessary in creating an effective Executive Summary in order to enhance your sales proposal.

3.  Making the Complex Clear and Pretty, Mar 12/03. 
Presented by Phylise Banner. 12 pages. Qty. 4. Talking points.

Making the complex clear is not always enough. It needs to look good, too! Basic graphic design principles are central to developing effective information design solutions. By incorporating these principles in your approach to traditional data representations, you can guide users to the information they need and prevent any potential misunderstandings.

Using examples from her experience as a Graphic Designer in the financial industry, the presenter will show why style is as important as clarity and why well-designed informational graphics are essential in fast-paced decision-making environments.

How to Obtain Handouts

We are offering the handouts free to members and require payment of $2.00 for non-members, which will cover copying and mailing costs. Offer is good only while quantities last. First come, first served. 

Members can email your address to me at tjedwins@rogers.com. Non-members should make cheques payable to "Southwestern Ontario Chapter STC" and mail them to:

21 Bishop Court
Guelph, ON
N1G 2R8