The Leadership Program at the STC 2015 Summit http://summit.stc.org/ will be Sunday, June 21st, from 8 am to noon. The program offers an opportunity for STC community members to get together for sharing and learning. The program has a little something for everyone.
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.
The Leadership Program at the STC 2015 Summit will be Sunday, 21 June , from 8 AM to noon. The program offers an opportunity for STC community members to get together for sharing and learning, and it won’t be the same without YOU. There are a number of reasons you’ll want to attend the Leadership Program.
When STC announced the location of the 2015 Technical Communication Summit, there were mixed reactions. Columbus, Ohio. “What? Where?” people asked. I get it. I only discovered Columbus, Ohio when I traveled to the city for a job interview with Battelle last year. I was hired for the job and, although I am located in Battelle’s Arlington, Virginia office, I have spent a good amount of time traveling to Battelle’s Columbus-based headquarters over the past year. I can tell you that I have been pleasantly surprised by Columbus. I asked some Battelle colleagues working there to share what they find interesting and unique about Columbus.
The Biological and Environmental Research Information System (BERIS) team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is highly honored to have been named STC’s 2013-14 International Summit Awards Best of Show. Yet, we also acknowledge the nearly 25 years of valuable experience and guidance we have received from entering STC technical communication competitions at the chapter and international (if our entries were deemed worthy) levels. Participating in chapter competitions in East Tennessee, Washington DC–Baltimore, South Carolina, Pittsburgh, and Florida has provided us with a broad range of opinions and competitors in publications, art, and online formats. We very much appreciate the judges’ critiques and comments, and all of them have contributed to our receiving this ultimate award and recognition from our peers
18 August 2014. There it was. Sitting in my email inbox. STC’s Call for Proposals for its annual Summit. How was it possible? I was still basking in the glow of the Summit in Phoenix, fondly remembering the dry heat, the networking, the plethora of informative sessions, the camaraderie of like-minded technical communicators, and my off-note karaoke singing at the TweetUp. I checked the inbox again. Yes, the message was still there. It was time to shake off the summer daydreaming and get to work on a proposal.
If you haven’t purchased Summit@aClick yet, there’s still time to save! The post-Summit sale has been extended through Friday, 29 August, for the best price on just about all the education you missed at the Summit.
While at the STC Summit in Phoenix last month, I had an opportunity to do something I couldn’t do elsewhere, which was have a face-to-face conversation with Dr. Miles Kimball from Texas Tech University. I’m interested in getting my technical communication PhD from Texas Tech, but have been hesitant to apply for the degree because of cost, time, lack of ideas for a thesis topic, and terror in doing certain types of research. Only after talking to him did I find out that several of my fears were unfounded. The kind of research I do like to do can still be done, the program would help me figure out how to pursue topics that would work for me, and many students in the program take one class at a time per semester on a part-time basis because of work obligations, so my situation is not unique. Now, it’s just the cost and the GREs I have to pass as my obstacles!
We wanted to share his talk (“Wicked Ambiguity”) with everyone, so we’ve embedded the video of his talk as well as his slides from SlideShare below. Unfortunately we don’t have them synched, but you should be able to follow along relatively easily by advancing the slides yourself as you watch the video. Enjoy!
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.