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Volume XX |
In this issue....
Features
- Increasing Your Membership
- How to Put On a Web Seminar
- Program Meetings: Inspirational Ideas
- Five Steps to Finding Speakers
- Creating a Table of Contents for Your Community's Blog
Administration
- LCR news and updates
- Board report posted
- STC to unveil new salary database
- Vote in STC's bylaws referendum
- STC's upcoming membership campaign
- Use STC mailing lists
Communities
- What you should know about chapter financial reports
- A SIG for Europe
- Chapter name change
- Pittsburgh chapter recognizes longtime member
- Chapter financial reports
Competitions
Elections
Events
Leadership Links
Program Meetings: Inspirational Ideas
LCR Connection
By Rachel Houghton and Jackie Damrau, LCR Committee
Are you having a hard time figuring out program meeting ideas for your community? Need some surefire ideas to increase membership participation? Look no further! The Leadership Community Resource (LCR) has a list of ideas and topics that you might consider pursuing.
We’ve compiled this list from various sources, including the most recent annual conference session topics.
Send your ideas, topics, and presenters (with their permission, please!) to lcr@stc.org and we’ll add them to the list, which will be posted on the LCR Web site.
| Adobe FrameMaker Publishing: To Structure or Not to Structure |
| Adobe RoboHelp Tips and Tricks |
| Alternatives to Online Help Authoring |
| Being Your Own Boss |
| Beyond Blogging 101 (joint meeting with International Association of Business Communicators, IABC) |
| Beyond Public Speaking Basics: Presenting Technical Information to Nontechnical Audiences |
| Body Language |
| Chapter Competition Winners Progression |
| Chapter Member Panel: Conference Session Review |
| Choosing a Framework for Structured Authoring: Docbook or DITA? |
| Content Management Boot Camp |
| Corporate Culture and Technical Communication |
| Creating e-Learning in a Flash |
| Creating PDFs That Are Viewable Today and in 30 Years |
| Creating Usable and Accessible Web Content: What Research from Several Fields Tells Us |
| Crystal-Ball Gazing: Outlook for Technical Communication Jobs |
| Design Patterns in User Assistance |
| Editing from the Author’s Viewpoint |
| Education and Experience in the Technical Communication Profession |
| Electronically Stored Information, the Law, and You |
| Equal Access to Technology for People with Disabilities |
| FrameMaker Workshop |
| Guidelines for Effective Ethical Influence |
| Help Authoring |
| How to Implement Single Sourcing |
| How to Make a Six-Figure Income as a Technical Writer |
| How to Publish Your Own Book |
| How to Write a Business Case |
| Implementing Embedded Help |
| Integrating User Interface (UI) Text Development into Product Development Life Cycles |
| Interview with Usability Expert |
| It's Not My Aunt's Online Help Anymore! |
| Just-in-Time Training and Documentation |
| Language and the Design of User Interfaces |
| Lessons in Learning: Progressions of the Instructional Design and Learning (IDL) Community |
| MadCap Flare Tips and Tricks |
| Medical Communication: Creating Opportunity, Providing Quality Deliverables, and Adhering to Ethical Standards |
| Myths and Trends in the Changing English Language |
| Networking and Soft Skills Presentation |
| Organizational Change and Strategic Reengineering |
| Panel Discussion on Certification |
| Polishing Your Pictures: Creating and Evaluating Usable Graphics for Global Audiences |
| Pop! Stand Out in Any Crowd in 60 Seconds or Less: How to Intrigue Decision-makers with Your Ideas |
| Portfolios and Interview Strategies: Four Critical Steps to Acing an Interview |
| Return on Investment (ROI) and Measures of Value Added for Technical Communicators |
| RoboHelp Workshop |
| Status of STC and the Technical Communication Profession |
| Success and the Solo Single-Sourcerer |
| The Intersection of Information Design and User Experience Design |
| Timely Topics in Technical Communication |
| Universal Usability |
| Using Wikis for Collaborative Writing |
| Web 2.0 101: Understanding Web 2.0 and Its Impact on Technical Communication |
| Why I Didn't Hire You |
| Winning Sales Proposals: Lead, Manage, Win |
| Words, Words, Words: Controlling the Unnecessary Sprawl of Terminology |