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Recognizing the impact the economic downturn has had on technical communicators, STC will grant 250 scholarships to members who have been laid off, let go, downsized, or have been forced to take a pay cut of 10 percent or more. Scholarships of $400 will be given to members wishing to attend the STC Technical Communication [...]
Conference attendees are already sending Twitter.com tweets. The Twemes.com site collects all related tweets containing the same hashtags or Twitter memes, which they call “twemes”. Use the tweme of #stc09 for tweets related to planning for and attending the 2009 Technical Summit. Twemes.com also pulls in any Flickr and Del.icio.us bookmarks that contain the hashtag [...]
Alan Houser, head of the program planning committee for the STC conference, shares the news about a room-sharing forum just posted to the STC Forum. If you share a room at the Summit hotel, you can cut your travel costs. The forum is at http://stcforum.org/viewtopic.php?id=1659 Post your arrival and departure dates to the forum. Identify [...]
Preliminary Program Updates The STC Live Learning Center database of sessions, speakers, and descriptions is updated frequently as information is received almost daily. You can view the most current listings for sessions within each of the six tracks, or choose to view those that are offered as part of the preconference certificate programs or workshops [...]
STC members may choose to spread their registration payment by paying half with their registration form and half onsite. Eligibility Available upon request to all members in good standing with the exception of students who are encouraged to volunteer and retired members who have a special rate. Process Download the conference registration form (.pdf) Payments [...]
We hope to see you at the conference in Atlanta, 3-6 May 2009. Please let us know if you will be attending or presenting. You can do this by going to the LinkedIn Events calendar entry at http://events.linkedin.com/STC-Tech-Comm-Summit/pub/37684
Here’s a great webinar offer from STC’s Usability and User Experience SIG! Mary Deaton, the SIG manager, writes: After months of planning, UUX is ready to jump into the business of offering Web seminars to members of the community, STC, and other UX practitioners. To celebrate, we are offering special pricing for both STC and [...]
Here’s a great webinar offer from STC’s Technical Editing SIG. Meredith Kinder, co-manager of the SIG, writes: The STC Technical Editing SIG is pleased to co-sponsor a webinar with the Washington, DC, chapter. The webinar, titled “Providing Effective Editing Comments,” takes place on Wednesday, March 18, from noon to 2:00pm Eastern US time*, and Michelle [...]
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 [...]
From: Jackie Damrau, STC Fellow Manager, STC IDL SIG cell: 214-505-0100 email: ten.liamrianull@3uarmadj ============================== Are you currently pursuing an undergraduate degree, graduate degree, or certificate in the area of Instructional Design? If so, apply for the 2009 STC Instructional Design & Learning SIG Scholarship today! We will award: One (1) $500 scholarship for undergraduate students [...]
MadCap, an STC Corporate Value Program (CVP) member, is looking for ways to support the technical communication community in this recession. MadCap has a promotion for folks who are unemployed, or looking to build upon their skills. Flare + Free Jumpstart training+ Free certification for $499. It is a way to give folks a chance [...]
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 [...]
Share news about your local events that have accessibility on the menu! Here’s a tip from the Boston, Massachusetts area submitted by our SIG member, P.J. Gardner, Information Designer and Web Accessibility Consultant. If you live in the greater Boston area, please consider attending the following event on the “New Section 508″! I thought I [...]
The STC Washington, DC Chapter is offering a Webinar about DITA on 31 October. (Speaker: Tom Magliery, XML Technology Specialist, JustSystems; Location: Anywhere with a phone line and a Web connection). Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. [Registration link to be provided.] Do you feel you’ve taken conditional text to the max – and maybe [...]
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 [...]
As Opera puts it, “Learning Web Standards just got easier.” Indeed it has! Opera has released “a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics”. It is called the Web Standards Curriculum. This curriculum was released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network and [...]
Whether you are familiar with the animated film/series “Creature Comforts”, you can quickly grasp the concept of “Creature Discomforts”. These are short television commercials, aired in the UK, which were prepared by Aardman Animation for Leonard Cheshire Disability. These commercials show animals, well, creatures, with disabilities, telling their story to an unseen interviewer. You can [...]
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 [...]
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