Guest post by Malu Schloss, New York Metro Chapter If you did not make it to the STC Summit to view the International Summit Award honorees last month, don’t worry. Attending the TechComm Roadshow on 26 June is the next Read more
The United States Office of Management and Budget recently released a Controller Alert further clarifying permitted expenses under the current sequestration as they apply to conference and travel spending by government employees. While steps should be taken to curtail conference Read more
Technical communication may be on the brink of a cultural shift from one-sided, didactic, expert-driven user documentation to utilizing user-generated content, collaborative communication, and the power of communities. Documentation teams can now utilize Web 2.0 approaches to capture user-generated content Read more
On Tuesday, 4 June, Ruth E. Thaler-Carter presents the live Web seminar Developing a Freelancer’s Portfolio from 10:00-11:00 AM EDT (GMT-4). Below is a guest post by Ruth on the topic. In the past, technical communicators relied on portfolios in Read more
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 Read more
The May issue of Intercom, with a theme of Content Strategy and guest edited by Alan Porter, is now online. Below is a copy of the note from the guest editor as well as from editor Liz Pohland for this Read more
Guest post by Nathaniel Lim, General Manager, International Summit Awards At the Summit Awards Banquet in Atlanta on 7 May, I had the pleasure of presenting the award for Best of Show in the 2013 International Summit Awards (ISA) for Read more
STC’s Technical Communication journal won an Association Media & Publishing EXCEL Award in the category of Journals, 4-Color, Feature Article, at the Silver level for the article “Three Types of Children’s Informational Web Sites” in the August 2012 issue of Read more
The official photos from the STC Summit are now available on the STC Flickr page. We had a photographer at the Opening General Session, Welcome Reception, and Honors Banquet taking photographs and we invite you to check them out! STC Read more