STC WDC-MB Blog

TranslationLocation: DACOR Bacon House, 1801 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006; Directions to the event (It is several blocks from the Farragut West Metro station (Blue/Orange line).) Keynote speaker: Janice (Ginny) Redish, Ph.D.) Keynote: “Content Strategist”—Why and How Technical Communicators are Naturals for this New Role. Fees: $30 Judges, entrants, students, volunteers $45 STC members [...]

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TranslationWhile local and regional competitions are underway, it’s not too early to think about becoming an international competition judge. At the international competition level, we draw the very best entries from all STC communities and judging internationally is a great professional development opportunity. You can be a competition judge on one of the remote teams [...]

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Translation Renew your membership for 2009 by 17 December through the STC website and your name will automatically be entered to win one of five iPods. The drawing will occur on the afternoon of 17 December in time for the iPods to be sent overnight via Express Mail. Renewing online is easy and fast with [...]

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Translation The STC Reach for the Stars Member-Get-a-Member Campaign rewards YOU for encouraging other technical communicators to join STC from 8 October 2008 through 31 December 2008. The following prizes apply to recruiting all member categories except student: * For every ten members you recruit, your name will be entered to win: An Apple iPhone! [...]

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TranslationThis is a BIG DEAL! We’re flying in Joe Welinske, a popular speaker in our industry, from Seattle to speak to us on Tuesday, January 13 from 6-8:30 p.m. at NRECA in Ballston. Be sure to attend if you have ever created online user assistance of any type, hope to do so in the future, [...]

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TranslationWe’ve added a new feature to this blog–a blogroll of chapter members’ blogs. So far we have linked to Eddie VanArsdall’s blog, Simplifying Complexity. If you are a chapter member and would like us to link to your blog, please comment here.

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