STC President Cindy Currie reports that more than 70 chapters have completed their 2010 zero-based budgets (STC’s SIGs pioneered zero-based budgeting in 2007 and have served as models during this process). The chapters have identified more than $300,000 as surplus Read more
Looking to make a career change or wondering about trends in the tech comm career field? Review STC’s Job Seeker Boot Camp and an upcoming web seminar on the future of tech comm. The newest addition to STC’s Job Seeker Read more
The deadline for submission of prospective proposals for Technical Communication Summit ’10 is fast approaching! All proposals must be submitted by 10:00 AM EDT (GMT-4), Monday, 5 October 2009, and must be submitted through our online submission system. The initial Read more
The following information has been provided by SIG Manager Rahel Anne Bailie of the Content Strategy SIG. Please direct all questions to the SIG’s leaders; contact information is at the bottom of the article. The STC has a new Special Read more
The September/October issue of Intercom has been posted on the STC website. Email notification will go out later for all members, but we’re posting here now as a special thanks to followers of the blog. Happy reading!
While 2008 proved to be a tough year for technical writers, the profession can at least claim to have outperformed the labor market as a whole and the market for other writers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Read more
Frequent visitors to STC’s Notebook might have noticed the Amazon.com advertisement on the right side. STC joined the Amazon.com Associates program earlier this year, and receives a small royalty on every purchase made through our portal (this even applies to purchases Read more
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has introduced a new standard designed to make it easier to search for documents and information. The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) serves as a model for expressing basic structure and content of concepts Read more
Microsoft Internet Explorer developers recently offered feedback on the most recent draft of HTML version 5. Despite the fact that the entire Web is built from HTML, the belief that the industry should move toward HTML 5 is not unanimous. Read more
STC senior member Anne Gentle is a technical writer, blogger, and author of the book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation. A technical writer for over ten years, Anne currently works as a senior technical writer at Advanced Read more