Community Spotlight: A Tribute to Austin T. Brown
Read a tribute to STC Fellow Austin T. Brown from his friend and chapter member Cynthia Lockley.
Read a tribute to STC Fellow Austin T. Brown from his friend and chapter member Cynthia Lockley.
Coming to Denver for STC’s 2019 Technical Communication Summit & Expo? Join one of our STC Dine Around groups!
Instead of leaving the Summit on a jet plane, join your fellow technical communicators at a Colorado Rockies baseball game.
STC’s Northeast Ohio Chapter is hosting a webinar this Saturday, 22 September, with STC Past President and popular presenter Bernard Aschwanden.
Opportunities abound from having easily-accessible connections with like-minded professionals. As a member of STC, those connections are right at your fingertips with STC’s chapters and special interest groups (SIGs). STC has over 60 of these diverse and active communities. You can connect with professionals in your chapter’s geographic area, or virtually with a SI
The STC CAC invites all leaders past, present and future to join us for a morning of connecting and learning. Please join us for the #STC16 Leadership Program on Sunday May 15, 2016 from 8:00 am – 12:30 pm PDT at the Anaheim Marriott Platinum 3 & 4.
When your community presents a member with an award, you are telling the world about the great contributions of that member. However, the world might not be on your community website or newsletter, and you should be certain the award winner’s employers know about the award. One way to do so is to send a message directly to the awardee’s supervisor. Below we present a template for such purposes, originally written with a Distinguished Chapter Service Award in mind.
Keeping track of your community’s finances can be a chore, especially if you’re using a written checkbook or homebrew Excel sheet. When it comes time to do your STC budget or financial report, guessing at the expenses and income for all the budget categories can be tricky. We recommend you use Quicken to track your community expenses. Quicken is a software application for both the PC and Mac.
We’ve been discussing how communities could partner on virtual programming
for a couple of years. Early this month, Rochester, Southeastern Michigan,
and New England partnered on a virtual techcomm showcase. This model can be
leveraged by other communities.