Owner’s Manual, broadcast on AMC Thursday at 10:00 PM EDT (GMT-4), pits two cohosts against each other in a series of difficult tasks. One, Marcus Hunt, has read the manual; his partner, Ed Sanders, has not. STC, of course, is Read more
As technical writers, we do not drive user acceptance, but we can influence it by writing about a system’s new features and functions, provide training, and answer users’ questions. I believe we can do a little more to help win Read more
Guest post by Pam Brewer On Thursday, 10 October 2013, the STC Academic SIG is hosting the Partnership Pre-Conference! This is the day before CPTSC, and the SIG would like to invite you to include this day in your plans. Read more
The BBC has reported a man using the British Library’s wi-fi network was denied access to an online version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet because the text contained “violent content.” This news item was especially newsworthy in the UK, because David Cameron, our Read more
Guest post from the STC-PMC and STC NY Metro Chapters We are excited to announce that the 2013-2014 Society for Technical Communication (STC) Greater New York Metro, Philadelphia Metro, and Houston Regional Tech Comm Competition is now open for entries and Read more
The STC Tryout is an opportunity for current members to invite colleagues and friends to experience STC at a fraction of the cost of an annual membership, and a great time for nonmembers to explore everything STC has to offer Read more
The July/August issue of Intercom, with a theme of usability and accessibility and guest edited by Karen Mardahl, is now online. Our thanks to Adobe for sponsoring the issue! Below is a copy of the note from the guest editor. Read more
In one of many LinkedIn group posts that had me shaking my head over the lack of business sense of “colleagues,” someone recently said, “I found it very hard to get anyone to respond to my website for editing. How Read more
Now that it’s Back-to-School time at many universities and colleges, it’s time to think about tech comm academics. Not the studies of technical communications topics themselves, but rather the people who are learning these skills—the students. Students are an untapped resource, Read more
Guest post by Jose Sermeno, Product Evangelist, MadCap Software Here at MadCap Software we’ve seen a sharp increase in the number of tech comm professionals creating user groups to discuss tips, tricks, and best practices, learn to use new tools, Read more