Tag: At the Summit

May 08

At the Summit Monday Afternoon: Social Media, Ultramarathons, and Crowdsourcing

The magic of social media, said Rahul Prabhakar in the first Monday afternoon session, Social Media Can Be Part of Your Set of Tech Comm Skills, is that you might never know just how many people you’re touching. That ability to touch untold numbers is part of what’s made social media the biggest and best way of acquiring customers today. And one way anyone can be a part of that is through influencer marketing.

Mar 17

What is happening at the #STC15 Leadership Program?

The Leadership Program at the STC 2015 Summit http://summit.stc.org/ will be Sunday, 21 June, from 8:00 AM to noon EDT. The program offers an opportunity for STC community leaders past, present, and future to get together for sharing and learning. This year’s program will be a little different and for good reason.

Jun 03

At the Summit: Photos, Get Yer Photos Here!

STC owns the rights to all the photos taken by the official Summit photographer, Phoenix Chapter member Miachelle DiPiano. As such, members and communities are invited to use the photographs as desired on websites, newsletters, emails, etc. You can access Miachelle’s photos on the STC Flickr site.

May 29

At the Summit: Helvetica Film Showing

The Phoenix Chapter planned a few outside social events for the Summit, and one of the popular ones was a showing of the documentary Helvetica. Sponsored by Discount Tire, this was a private showing of Helvetica at the FilmBar, a combined beer/wine bar and 70-seat movie theater within walking distance of the Phoenix Convention Center. The description for the event queried:

May 28

At the Summit: A Student Feels At Home

Arriving in Phoenix as a student volunteer for the second time was less intimidating than my first go in Atlanta. For one, I knew what to expect. STC members embrace students, welcoming us into the fold. People are actually excited and thankful we are here. They want to share their wealth of information with us. They want us to succeed. Also, I meet other students from around the country, establishing long-lasting relationships among future colleagues early on in our budding careers. The Summit is an amazing gathering of people who take care of one another and the people that will follow in their footsteps.

May 27

At the Summit: Recovering from the Summit Hangover

I’m suffering from the Summit hangover. And I don’t mean a hangover from drinking too much at the Honors Banquet (I didn’t). I’m talking about the “high” you get from seeing so many friends that you only see once a year. There are several posts on my Facebook feed from STC friends who are feeling the same thing, the post-conference depression that settles in after you’ve hugged all your friends goodbye and flown (or driven) home. It’s hard, because you know that unless you attend other conferences or visit other communities, you won’t see many of those friends again until next June at the 2015 Summit.

May 20

At the Summit: A Man, A Plan, A Panama Hat

This year’s Summit has a bunch of subtle changes that translate to significant improvements. There have been some years when the STC Summit was at convention centers and hotels where the individual sessions were spread across a wide area—sometimes on separate floors. I remember at times either showing up for a session that was standing room only and having my second choice being a bit of a jaunt. In past years there was only a 15-minute break between sessions, which of course made things complicated if you had to haul from one end of the venue to the other for your next session and no doubt truncated some of the after-session Q&A. One excellent change this year is that for the most part all the sessions are in one hallway in adjacent rooms.

May 20

Watch the Alan Alda Honorary Fellow Video

On Sunday evening at the Opening General Session of the 2014 Summit, we closed with the Honorary Fellow presentation to Alan Alda, actor and technical communicator. Alda is the namesake of and visiting professor at the Stony Brook University Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and was honored for his work promoting the need for greater technical communication in science.