By Tricia Spayer | Chair of Pacesetter Committee
STC’s Community Pacesetter Award recognizes the successful implementation of innovative community operations. STC offers the Pacesetter Award because the Society values the improvement of community operation, and especially when beneficial innovation can be shared with other communities so that they can enjoy similar benefits.
The Pacesetter activities for this award year should have been implemented within the 2013 calendar year. This can be an ongoing activity, but must have been implemented in 2013 to receive an award.
All STC communities are eligible for an award. The due date for the application is 25 March 2014.
Following are some questions your community might ask:
Can my community apply for Pacesetter and Community Achievement Award in the same year?
Yes. The two awards are not mutually exclusive. While the CAA recognizes established practices, the Pacesetter Award recognizes innovative activities.
Why should our community apply for a Pacesetter Award?
The award proves that your community is creative in providing services to its members through new technologies, methodologies, or strategies. You are not content with the status quo. You are cutting-edge, connected, involved, unique, and inventive. You know that what you are doing benefits your community, the mission of the Society, and that other communities should be using your ideas.
That, and it’s really cool to go up on stage at the STC Honors Banquet to be recognized. The award gives you bragging rights to put into your newsletters, websites, and marketing materials.
What are some examples of Pacesetting activities?
The following are some examples of previous Pacesetter awards:
- Collecting, formalizing, and sharing the knowledge and wisdom of members in an encyclopedic resource of best practices for all technical communication professionals, but especially for their SIG members.
- Reaching out to STC members with special needs and disabilities; supporting those members by developing an excellent Accessibility Guide for the annual conference; setting an example for all STC communities by creating a highly accessible SIG website; and for contributing to the accessibility of the Society website.
- Adapting Agile methodology to community management by allowing volunteers to accept manageable tasks, leaders to track progress regularly, and the community to achieve more in an organized and constantly improving way.
For more examples, visit the STC website or search the Internet for “STC Pacesetter Award” (better results without using the quotes). You will find a myriad of proud communities’ explanations of their Pacesetter awards.
Where Can We Find More Information?
Look at the Guidelines and Application posted on the STC website for details, www.stc.org/membership/recognition/awards/1178-pacesetteraward. Questions? Ask the Community Achievement Awards/Pacesetter Committee (Tricia Spayer, chair) at stc.caa@gmail.com.
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