communication department

Volume XIX Number 9

Events

Society Events

November 2–4, 2006 CONFERENCE
The Lone Star Community STC will host STC’s 2006 Region 5 Conference, “50 Facets of Technical Communication,” at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Addison, Texas. For more information, please visit the conference Web site.

November 22, 2006 WEBINAR
Robert Dianetti will host an STC Web-telephone seminar, “Selling Technical Communication Services—Both Inside and Outside Your Organization,” from 1 to 2:30 PM Eastern Time. Participants will learn how to identify their companies’ needs to create more business and how to market themselves effectively to build their career. For more information or to register for the seminar, please visit stc.webex.com.

December 6, 2006 WEBINAR
Maggie Haenel will present an STC Web-telephone seminar, “Creating Training that Sticks,” from 1 to 2:30 PM Eastern Time. The seminar will focus on how adults learn and what makes them remember information. For more information or to register for the seminar, please visit stc.webex.com.

January 17, 2007 WEBINAR
Neil Perlin will host an STC Web-telephone seminar, "The X Factor—From HTML to XHTML," from 1 to 2:30 PM Eastern Time. The seminar will address how and why XHTML came to be used and how it works at the code level. Participants will learn how XHTML differs from HTML and XML, what its codes look like, how to convert files from other formats to XHTML, and what tools can be used to do so. For more information or to register for the seminar, please visit stc.webex.com.

January 31, 2007 WEBINAR
Elaine Wisniewski and Steven Hall will present an STC Web-telephone seminar, “ANSI Z535.6—A New Standard for Safety Information in Product-accompanying Literature,” from 1 to 2:30 PM Eastern Time. Participants will learn about a new national standard for presenting safety messages in owners’ manuals. The standard ANSI Z535.6, Product Safety Information in Product Manuals, Instructions, and Other Collateral Materials, is expected to be published by the end of 2006. It focuses on the design and placement of product safety messages (or warnings) in product-accompanying documents. For more information or to register for the seminar, please visit stc.webex.com.

February 7, 2007 WEBINAR
Heather Hedden will host an STC Web-telephone seminar, “Creating Indexes on Web Sites and Intranets,” from 1 to 2:30 PM Eastern Time. The seminar will focus on manually created A-Z site indexes as a solution for managers of Web or HTML content. The structure of HTML indexes and a review of how such indexes compare with site maps, taxonomies, and search engines, as well as an overview of Web indexing tools, will be presented. For more information or to register for the seminar, please visit stc.webex.com.

February 21, 2007 WEBINAR
Melanie Doulton and Makarand Pandit will host an STC Web-telephone seminar, "Working in Global Teams," from 1 to 2:30 PM Eastern Time. The seminar will focus on ways to build successful working relationships in virtual environments. The speakers will also discuss the state of technical communication in India and share the experiences of Indian technical writers working in virtual teams. For more information or to register for the seminar, please visit stc.webex.com.

RESCHEDULED WEBINAR
Whitney Quesenbery’s STC Web-telephone seminar titled “Choosing the Right Usability Technique (To Answer the Right Question)” and originally scheduled for November 8, 2006, has been rescheduled for May 2, 2007.

Send announcements of your community or regional events to tieline@stc.org.