Each of the candidates for the upcoming STC election were invited to submit a blog post to STC’s Notebook in support of their candidacy. Below is the post submitted by Deanne Levander, candidate for Director. Click on her name to Read more
I promise not all my posts will be about “Swinging London,” but this one is, like my first post, about an event available to the technical-writer-about-town. In this case, it concerns a presentation called Science and the dark art of persuasion, which Read more
Technical communicators are responsible for making sure that people can use the product safely and effectively. Unfortunately, a lot of technical communicators follow outdated guidelines for writing hazards and warnings, causing low user compliance. Get up to date with Leah Read more
We introduce another guest blogger today, David Dick, president of the Usability & User Experience SIG. David will be posting monthly on the importance of usability and what it can bring to a product or company. Before the iPod, we Read more
In addition to techcomm professionals, we’ve also invited a few of our best corporate partners to provide their product evangelists as guest bloggers. Today we introduce a guest blog post from MadCap Software and Jennifer White. For the first time ever in the Read more
Today STC’s Notebook welcomes another regular guest blogger, Judith Shenouda, the author of Career Success in 12 Easy Steps: A Journal. Judith will be blogging monthly about career advice. It is said that advice is cheap. We know that many Read more
The Academic SIG is piloting a virtual mentoring program pairing interested professionals in the field and college students working on projects to create content for the STC Technical Communication Body of Knowledge (BoK). The goal of the BoK is to Read more
Once again we’ve invited the presenters of our webinars to provide a guest post talking about their upcoming presentation. We hope this will provide even more information to potential attendees and give a glimpse into what you can expect to Read more
As we announced last month, the website for the 2013 STC Election is live on the main STC site. Do you know the candidates running for Vice President, Treasurer, Director, and the Nominating Committee? There is a photo, biography, candidate Read more
Today STC’s Notebook welcomes another regular guest blogger, Elizabeth (Bette) Frick, also known as The Text Doctor. Bette will be blogging monthly about business matters. I have always been a little vague about numbers. One result of this vagueness is Read more