Society for Technical Communication

The Council of Science Editors (CSE) will hold its 2008 annual meeting at the Hyatt Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. For more information, please contact:

The International Communication Association (ICA) will hold its annual conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada. For more information, please contact:

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) will hold its 30th annual meeting at the Westin Copley Place Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, please contact:

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, and "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, please visit: