Society Events
April 5 WORKSHOP
The Boston Chapter STC will host a series of workshops from 9 AM to 5 PM at The MathWorks, Inc., in Natick, Massachusetts. Karen Giventer will discuss skills and techniques that participants can incorporate into their job searches. Jonathan Kranz will present a session titled "Moving into Marketing: How to Expand Your Technical Writing Skills into Sales, Marketing, and PR,” and Neil Perlin will discuss structured authoring's pros and cons and provide a set of exercises that can serve as the basis for a real structured authoring implementation. For more information or to register for the workshops, please contact Pam Sarantos, program coordinator, or visit the Boston Chapter STC Web site.
April 11 WORKSHOP
The Alberta Chapter STC will host an information design workshop from 9 AM to 4 PM at the Hotel Arts in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. STC Past President and Manager of Conferences Saul Carliner will introduce participants to the principles, processes, and practices of information design, provide a methodology for ensuring that the right users receive the right information at the right time, and demonstrate how to prepare a blueprint for a communication product. For more information, please visit the Alberta Chapter STC Web site.
April 14–15 CONFERENCE
The Manitoba Chapter STC and Red River College will hold their 5th annual technical communication conference at the Red River College Princess Street campus. STC Past President and Manager of Conferences Saul Carliner will serve as keynote speaker. For more information, please contact Brad Friesen, chapter president, or visit the Manitoba Chapter STC Web site.
April 16–18 CONFERENCE
The TransAlpine Chapter STC—representing Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland—will hold its 2008 conference at Hermes Softlab in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event begins with a one-day workshop on April 16, followed by the two-day conference on April 17–18. For more information, please contact Dan Jones, chapter president, or visit the TransAlpine Chapter STC Web site.
May 15 LIVE WEB SEMINAR
Sharon Burton will present an STC live Web seminar, “Doing More with Less: Using Topic-based Content Development,” from 1 to 2:30 PM ET (17:00 to 18:30 GMT). This seminar will introduce participants to topic-based content development, including how to plan and leverage the content they develop, regardless of the tool used and staff resources available. For more information or to register for this seminar, please visit the STC Web site.
June 1–4 CONFERENCE
STC’s 2008 Technical Communication Summit will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference will feature evaluation workshops and technical sessions in the following tracks: designing and assessing user experiences; developing and delivering content; emerging technologies; producing and publishing information; managing people, projects, and business; developing your skills and promoting your profession; and applying research and theory to practice. In addition, preconference certificate programs—Adobe Boot Camp, Management, Master Writers, Technical Communication 101, Usability and Accessibility, and Design and Development—will be offered. “Institutes,” conferences-within-the-conference, will explore the areas of instructional design, business development, globalization and localization, and content management in depth.
Howard Rheingold—founding executive editor of HotWired and author of Smart Mobs, The Virtual Community, and Tools for Thought—and Richard Saul Wurman—former architect and prolific author on topics as diverse as information architecture, cartography, travel, information theory, health care, sports, children, and finance—will be the event’s keynote speakers.
For more information or to register, please visit the conference Web site.
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