STC’s Rochester Chapter holds the fantastic Spectrum conference every year. The conference will be held 25-27 March 2018, with a theme of Hack Into Your Flow, and the call for proposals is now open. Proposals must be submitted by 8 December.
Technical Communication, the peer-reviewed publication of the Society for Technical Communication, is soliciting article proposals for an upcoming special issue that examines the field and practice of content strategy. Guest Editor: Rahel Anne Bailie, FH-Joanneum University, Austria Special Issue Description Read more
In recent years, digital creation has become a more participatory process. As media companies struggle to maintain control over their own products, consumers continually demand more access to the creative process and more input on the final results. While this may seem on the surface to be a simple matter of intellectual property, a closer examination of trends reveals that both consumers and media companies have much to gain (and lose) from this debate.
Have you been considering presenting at STC’s Technical Communication Summit? If so, the Call for Proposals for the 65th STC Summit is now open! The Summit fosters industry-leading technical communication by stimulating information exchange, cultivating research, and serving as the primary source of education for professional technical communicators.
The push towards the democratization of countries, particularly when technologies influence electoral outcomes, must be properly scrutinized by technical communicators in a nonpartisan and rigorous manner. Several electoral events and activities, both within and outside the US, provide some grounds for technical communicators to contribute to conversations about what it means to organize clean, fair, credible, and incontrovertible elections in a technologically-driven era. Increasingly, electoral technologies have become scarily vulnerable to breakdown, malfunction, and hacking, raising several implications about electoral integrity.
Recently, scholarship in technical and professional communication (TPC) has examined economic and structural transformations that have influenced how projects are being managed at different workplaces.
Todd DeLuca, Conference Committee Chair By now you’ve seen the notice that the call for proposals for the 2017 Summit is open and that there is a theme this year, “Gain the Edge to Get Results.” We Read more
In 2016, members of the Usability and User Experience SIG will have a unique opportunity to contribute to the SIG and earn prizes. The Usability and User Experience SIG will conduct three competitions: Research, Writing, and Educational Scholarship. These competitions are only open to members of the Usability and User Experience SIG!
The deadline for submitting session proposals for the 2016 Summit has been extended to Monday, 5 October. Have you submitted your proposal yet? If not, this is your last chance to be an official part of the 2016 program! The 2016 Summit will be held 15-18 May in Anaheim, California, USA, and we’re inviting you to contribute your ideas, studies, experience, and expertise.
With only one week left to submit a proposal to speak at the STC Summit, it’s important to evaluate your own proposal before the committee reviews it.