Thanks once more to the chapter and SIG leaders for filling Your Friendly Neighborhood Blogger in on what’s going on in their neighborhoods. Click the Community Events tab above to see the full listing, in chronological order and with links where provided, or see Read more
Time is running out! Today is the last day of the membership grace period for those who have not yet renewed their membership for 2014. Don’t lose out on member benefits like free archived seminars, award-winning publications, the affinity program, Read more
The Society for Technical Communication’s International Summit Awards (ISA) competition is accepting chapter or regional entries through 31 January 2014. To qualify, the entry must have been produced or substantially revised within 24 months prior to 1 September 2013 and Read more
The President’s Midterm Report was published in the January issue of Intercom, but we’re republishing it here as well as a guest post by STC President Nicky Bleiel. I am honored to continue the tradition of the President’s midterm report Read more
The January issue of Intercom is now online. This issue’s theme is “Personal Productivity: Work Smarter, Not Harder.” Below is a copy of the note from the editor. Take advantage of one of the many benefits of STC membership; read Read more
Learning a foreign language is, I believe, one of the most useful ways to improve your writing skills. The modern day English language is a flexible, ever-evolving language. It’s developed from Saxon, Celtic, Old Norse, and Norman French, with words Read more
My husband is what I call an “accidental saver.” Every evening, he empties his pockets of coins and dumps them into a plastic dish on his desk. Over months, the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters pile up and spill out Read more
The STC Academic SIG invites individual submissions to a student poster competition at the 2014 STC Summit. Selected posters will be presented at the Summit in Phoenix on Tuesday, 20 May 2014. Awards will be presented that evening at the Read more
With a new year, new resolutions are abound. Usually new year’s resolutions are along the lines of spending more time with family, getting in more exercise, or the most popular of all, losing weight (or in my case—all of the Read more
Guest post by Liz Fraley TC Camp, the unconference for content creators, consumers, and the people who support them, is happening at Mission College in Santa Clara on Saturday, 25 January. I don’t know if you’ve been to an unconference Read more