On your mark… Get set… Recruit!
Expand your network, strengthen STC and your community, and win prizes by speaking with other professionals about membership in STC! The 2017 community membership race will start on 22 May 2017 and end on 1 September 2017. This campaign is designed to help communities recruit new members to join STC and their chapter or SIG. All community members are encouraged to participate in this event.
This is the first in a series of sketch notes taken at the 2017 Summit by STC Senior Member Elizabeth Alley. Relive the magic of the Summit in a unique and dynamic way through Elizabeth’s sketches! You can see more of Elizabeth’s work at elizabethalley.com.
The Power of Reaching the Summit is the first of a series of blog posts, curated or new here, discussing key takeaways by individuals and STC Communities to Keep the Edge gained at Summit 2017. If you would like to contribute a post, please drop a note to the series editor, Ben.woelk@gmail.com.
Community leaders will be glad to hear that once again, the STC Community Affairs Committee (CAC) has got their back in 2016-2017. If you need help, feel stuck, or just want ideas, look to the CAC as your connection to STC resources, Board of Directors, and staff.
Back by popular demand! Matt Sullivan, Founder of Tech Comm Tools, will be teaching the online course, “Owning Your Content: Using the Power of FrameMaker to Get Back to Writing” starting 6 June and running through 25 July (Tuesdays, skip 4 July) at 10:30-11:30 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Impressive things are occurring in the visual design classrooms at Kennesaw State University in Georgia (USA). The winning illustrations for the May 2017 issue of Technical Communication are the creations of KSU students. Here are two promising artists
The push towards the democratization of countries, particularly when technologies influence electoral outcomes, must be properly scrutinized by technical communicators in a nonpartisan and rigorous manner. Several electoral events and activities, both within and outside the US, provide some grounds for technical communicators to contribute to conversations about what it means to organize clean, fair, credible, and incontrovertible elections in a technologically-driven era. Increasingly, electoral technologies have become scarily vulnerable to breakdown, malfunction, and hacking, raising several implications about electoral integrity.
The Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research was established by STC in 2006 to celebrate and honor Professor Ken Rainey’s passion for research that results in improvements to technical communication, especially to practice. The goal of the award is to encourage quality and excellence in technical communication research by honoring those whose research studies have made an outstanding contribution to the field. The committee for this year’s award is Ann Blakeslee, PhD; Charles Kostelnick, PhD; Michael Albers, PhD; and Hope J. Lafferty, AM, ELS
My name is Robert Perry and I am running for a Director position. I have been a proud and active member of STC for over 25 years and have served in a variety of leadership roles in both the Carolina and New York Metro chapters.
This entry is being posted on behalf of James Bousquet, candidate for Treasurer in the 2017 STC election. More information about James can be found on his STC election page.