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This year, Knowbility’s John Slatin Access U training institute launches a professional training program on Web accessibility evaluation! The Web accessibility evaluation curriculum is offered May 11-12 (with post-conference sessions at AccessU on May 13th.) It’s all happening in Austin, Texas at St. Edward’s University. Registration is open! Our own Whitney Quesenbery, together with Sharron [...]
STC’s official hotel for the 2009 Technical Communication Summit is the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. The Hyatt Regency is the location for all the activities associated with the Summit and the only hotel with which STC has a block of rooms. STC’s negotiated room rate is $174.00 (plus 15 percent tax) for either a single or [...]
Being in two places at one time may not be a problem much longer, thanks to an innovative program beginning during the Technical Communication Summit, 3-6 May, in Atlanta, GA. For years, attendees have struggled with choosing which of the concurrent sessions presented in the Final Program to attend. With six or more sessions offered [...]
STC’s Conference Program Committee is pleased to announce the debut of STC’s Live Learning Center, a convenient way to review the details of the Technical Communication Summit presentations before the meeting. “This is a live database of information on session titles, descriptions, tracks, institutes, speakers, and more,” explains Phylise Banner, conference chair. “It puts up-to-date [...]
Register by 18 February 21 April 2009 to receive the early bird rates for the 2009 Technical Communication Summit. Registration is available online at the STC website at http://conference.stc.org/register/, as well as by fax and mail. This site also has a sample letter to your boss that makes a case for you to attend the [...]
Did you know that the STC Technical Summit being held in Atlanta next May will be recorded? Tom Johnson interviewed Lloyd Tucker, STC’s Director of Education and Membership to learn more about this new service. What did Tom ask Lloyd? Why did the STC decide to record all the sessions this year? Won’t the cost [...]
We have exciting news about the 2009 Technical Communication Summit to be held 3–6 May 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. The STC Board of Directors has just approved the purchase of conference management software that will give STC the capability to record the entire conference. The audio recording will be synchronized with the PowerPoint presentation and [...]
STC’s Technical Communication Summit 2009 will be held 3-6 May 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, in the heart of downtown Atlanta, GA. See the Call for Proposals for STC’s 56th Annual Conference: Technical Summit 2009. You may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. Proposals may be submitted and updated online until 10:00 a.m. (Eastern), [...]
We encourage members and friends of the AccessAbility SIG to consider submitting a paper for Include 2009. This call for papers in the Caring Technology Research Announcement List was brought to our attention by member Lisa Pappas. Include 2009, Royal College of Art, London 5-8 April 2009 Submission deadline: deadline October 1, 2008 The RCA [...]
Technical Summit tweets are aggregated at Twemes. About Twemes: Twemes.com follows public Twitter.com tweets (messages) that have embedded tags that start with a # character. These are sometimes called hashtags but we like to use the term “twemes”. Through the use of twemes, we can all view what people are talking about across the whole [...]
The schedule for STC annual conferences was announced at the 2008 Technical Summit: 2009 Atlanta, GA 3-6 May 2010 Dallas, TX 2011 Sacramento, CA 2012 Rosemont, IL 2013 Atlanta, GA A call for proposals for the Atlanta conference will be issued in September.
My new mantra is “It’s not just the volume. It’s the clarity.” This was my biggest “Ah HA” moment regarding my ability to hear and enjoy the Technical Communication Summit in Philadelphia last week. I realized that I was hearing the speakers’ voices just fine but I was still not discerning each and every word [...]
Each year at the STC conferences, the AccessAbility SIG publishes a roadmap to sessions that are related to accessibility or usability. 2008 is no different. Download the AccessAbility SIG conference roadmap 2008 today. Highlights The SIG luncheon and SIG business meeting are two obvious highlights. The SIG luncheon is on Monday, June 2 at 12 [...]
The following information was provided by Allen Rotz. While at the conference in Philadelphia, check out the interesting adaptive use of the Reading Railroad Terminal: http://www.paconvention.com/art/history.asp. It also includes the Reading Terminal Market which has several interesting eateries for lunch. Some serve breakfast. http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/about/ http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/merchants/category/pennsylvaniadutch Unfortunately, the Pennsylvania Dutch businesses are only open Wed-Sat. http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/merchants/category/restaurants [...]
Lori Gillen, incoming Co-Manager of the SIG, put together some useful tips for participants attending this year’s STC conference in Philadelphia. These tips can be used at any presentation, anywhere, of course! The tips are provided to help conference participants hear better and get much more out of their conference experience. Sit next to one [...]
Lori Gillen, incoming Co-Manager of the SIG, put together some useful tips for speakers at this year’s STC conference in Philadelphia. The tips are provided to help speakers ensure better hearing of presentation content. These tips can be used for any presentation, anywhere, of course. Your audience will thank you! Bring written content (slide presentation [...]
The Accessibility Guide to the STC 55th conference (see http://www.stc.org/55thConf/access/index.asp) was prepared to help you with your conference preparation. As promised in the guide, we are continuing the discussion of tips and suggestions here on the blog. Just in from Marc Gravez, Vice-President and acting/interim President of the Philadelphia chapter, is a very useful description [...]
In this year’s pre-conference program, Whitney Quesenbery is running a certificate program that should catch the attention of any technical communicator interested in usability and accessibility. Anyone attending will definitely learn from this very, very knowledgeable member of – among other groups – the STC’s AccessAbility SIG and Usability and User Experience SIG. Whitney comments [...]
The AccessAbility SIG of STC is pleased to bring you another STC conference accessibility guide. Download a PDF of the guide at http://www.stc.org/55thConf/access/index.asp. To help you plan your journey to Philadelphia and the 2008 Technical Communication Summit, look for the guide on the conference site under "Accessibility" at http://www.stc.org/55thConf/index.asp. Don’t miss the scooter rental offer [...]
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