Volume XX Number 8

Events

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 benefit organizations. 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 STC 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 STC Web site.

November 10–11, 2007    WORKSHOP

The U.K. Chapter STC will hold a workshop on making the most of DITA at the Novotel Hotel, Manchester Centre in Manchester, England. Alan Houser, principal of Group Wellesley consultants, will be one of the workshop leaders. Workshop and training topics will include making DITA work for your data, working with DITA and FrameMaker for authoring and publishing, and XMetaL and the DITA open toolkit. For more information, please contact Anthony Davey, Chapter Vice President, or visit the U.K. Chapter STC Web site.

March 14, 2008     CONFERENCE

The France Chapter STC will host its annual conference in Paris, France. This year’s 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 STC 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 STC Web site.

March 28, 2008    CONFERENCE

The Rochester Chapter STC will hold “Spectrum 2008” at the R.I.T. Inn and Conference Center in Rochester, New York. Ginny Redish, a usability consultant for Redish & Associates, Inc., who founded the Document Design Center for the American Institutes for Research in 1979, will serve as keynote speaker. Please watch the Rochester Chapter STC Web site for updates.

April 14–15, 2008    CONFERENCE

The Manitoba Chapter STC and Red River College will hold their fifth annual technical communication conference at the Red River College Princess Street campus. For more information, please contact Brad Friesen, or visit the Manitoba Chapter STC Web site.

April 16–18, 2008   CONFERENCE

The TransAlpine Chapter STC—representing Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland—will hold its 2008 conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event kicks off with a one-day workshop on Wednesday, April 16, followed by the two-day conference on Thursday and Friday, April 17–18.

Planning for the event is now underway. If you would like to teach a full or half-day workshop or present at the conference, please e-mail Dan Jones, Chapter President, or call him at +41 44 625 32 10 by October 15, 2007. Please go to the TransAlpine Chapter STC Web site for more information.

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.