STC is forming a new Membership Committee with one simple and basic goal: Increase STC membership! And who better to come up with new and fresh ideas on how to increase membership than current members? The committee is chaired Read more
You may have missed the 2010 STC Summit in Dallas, Texas, this past May … but you don’t have to miss it any more! We can’t recreate the all-important networking that took place at the Summit, but we can bring almost all of Read more
Your Friendly Neighborhood Blogger is going to be out of the office for a while, starting next week. I’ll be away from 29 July through 9 August, returning to my desk bright and early in the morning of 10 August Read more
Information architect. Manager. Designer. Graphic artist. Writer. Editor. QA. One person—many hats. Such is the life of a lone writer. There are many joys in being a lone writer, but also several burdens. One person needs to handle many jobs, Read more
The slides from Rich Maggiani’s recent STC web seminar, Promoting Your Career Through Social Media, was selected by SlideShare.com as a showcase presentation on their “Career” page. SlideShare allows users to upload and share PowerPoint and other presentations, Word docs, PDFs, etc., Read more
The Knowledge-based Governance Survey regarding student member voting closes today. STC members received an email two weeks ago announcing the survey plus a reminder email yesterday. The survey is only open to STC members, so I can’t post the link Read more
Guest post by Buck Wilbur. Are Technical Communicators also Knowledge Managers? Much of today’s organizational production is accomplished by people putting their ideas into computers. Everyone is constantly on their computer. Whether you are an accountant, an aircraft designer, a Read more
Recent President’s Award winner Rick O’Sullivan is working on the 2010 Salary Database (using 2009 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) for publication later in the year, and we’re looking for suggestions on what you’d like to see Read more
The Summit seems to be a time for milestones with the Technical Communication Body of Knowledge (TCBoK). Members were first introduced to the site map and polled for suggestions at a past Summit, with the sitemap and personas revised as Read more