communication department

Volume XX Number 7

Events

Region 4 Conference Announces Presenters

By Robert G. Young, Senior Member, Northeast Ohio Chapter

If you did not have an opportunity to attend the STC conference in Minneapolis or if you want to hone your technical communication skills further, we have just the ticket for you (and it’s affordable)! “The Crucial Communicator,” the Northeast Ohio Chapter STC regional conference, will be held on Friday, October 12, 2007, from 8 AM to 5:30 PM at the Hilton Garden Inn and Gateway Conference Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

Meet notable STC presenters, including Neil Perlin and Scott Abel, as well as STC Executive Director Susan Burton. Session topics include Web 2.0, structured authoring, Captivate for e-learning, DITA, integrated authoring and translation, international documentation standards, and XML solutions. See the complete list of presenters and topics.

We are privileged to have the ISO JTC 1 SC7/WG2 group, comprising international experts in standards and user documentation from the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. You can meet the guests and network during the Rock & Write welcome reception on Thursday evening (October 11).

This learning opportunity is available at the incredibly low price of just $120 per STC member. Discount hotel reservations are also available. Register today. Space is limited.

Society Events

October 12, 2007    CONFERENCE

STC’s Region 4 Conference, “The Crucial Communicator,” will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn and Gateway Conference Center in Clev­eland, Ohio. Sessions wi­ll feature presentations and discussions on how technical communicators can more effectively demonstrate their indispensability in the workplace. Melvin Smith—an assistant professor in the department of organizational behavior and a faculty director of executive education at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio—will deliver the keynote address on the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace and in social settings, and demonstrate its potential to an organization. Neil Perlin, Scott Abel, and STC Executive Director Susan Burton will also present sessions. Session topics include Web 2.0, structured authoring, Captivate for e-learning, DITA, integrated authoring and translation, international documentation standards, and XML solutions. The ISO JTC 1 SC7/WG2 group—comprising international experts in standards and user documentation from the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States—will be in attendance. For more information, please visit the Northeast Ohio chapter Web site.­

October 25–27, 2007    CONFERENCE

The India Chapter STC will hold its annual conference—the biggest annual learning, sharing, and networking forum for technical communication professionals in the subcontinent—at Cidade de Goa in Goa, India. For more information, please contact Fred Menezes, Conference Program Manager, or visit the India chapter Web site.

March 14, 2008     CONFERENCE

The France Chapter STC will host its annual conference in Paris, France. The theme is “Communicating Europe.” The conference will celebrate the diversity of technical communication in Europe. For more information­, please e-mail conference@stcfrance.org, or visit the France chapter Web site.

March 14–15, 2008     CONFERENCE

The Atlanta Chapter STC will host its annual conference, “Currents 2008,” at the Southern Polytechnic State University campus in Marietta, Georgia. Jean-luc Dumont is scheduled to be one of the conference’s speakers. For more information, please contact Dirk Bender, Conference Manager, or visit the Atlanta chapter Web site.

June 1–4, 2008     CONFERENCE

The Technical Communication Summit, STC’s 55th Annual Conference, will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More information will be posted to the STC Web site.

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