Entries from January 2009
January 31st, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off
From The Reader Advocate, The Salt Lake Tribune, P.O. Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. E-mail: reader.advocate@sltrib.com
I hang my head in shame over the grammatical error in our Friday story about the earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park.
Although the error was corrected when it got to the online version, the first sentence of the story [...]
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Tags: copy editors, earthquakes, Grammar, grammatical error, salt lake city utah, salt lake tribune, yellowstone national park
January 31st, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off
The Della A. Whitaker International Scholarship is a Society-level scholarship that honors a past Washington, DC Chapter member. The scholarship assists college students who are pursuing established degree programs in some area of technical communication and have completed at least one year of post-secondary education. Awards of $1,500 each will be granted toward school tuition [...]
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Tags: college students, Della A. Whitaker, Education, international scholarship, scholarship, scholarship application
January 30th, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off
[ April 3, 2009; ] STC’s official hotel for the 2009 Technical Communication Summit is the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. The Hyatt Regency is the location for all the activities associated with the Summit and the only hotel with which STC has a block of rooms. STC’s negotiated room rate is $174.00 (plus 15 percent tax) for either a single or [...]
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Tags: Atlanta, conference hotel, group rate, hyatt regency atlanta, official hotel, technical communication summit
January 30th, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off
[ May 3, 2009 to May 6, 2009. ] [caption id="attachment_577" align="alignright" width="153"][/caption]
Being in two places at one time may not be a problem much longer, thanks to an innovative program beginning during the Technical Communication Summit, 3-6 May, in Atlanta, GA.
For years, attendees have struggled with choosing which of the concurrent sessions presented in the Final Program to attend. With six or more [...]
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Tags: Atlanta, learning, Summit-at-a-Click, technical communication summit
January 30th, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off
STC’s Conference Program Committee is pleased to announce the debut of STC’s Live Learning Center, a convenient way to review the details of the Technical Communication Summit presentations before the meeting. “This is a live database of information on session titles, descriptions, tracks, institutes, speakers, and more,” explains Phylise Banner, conference chair. “It puts up-to-date [...]
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Tags: conference, learning, preliminary program, technical communication summit
January 30th, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off
[ February 18, 2009; ] [caption id="attachment_323" align="alignright" width="250" caption="56th Annual Conference"][/caption]
Register by 18 February 2009 to receive the early bird rates for the 2009 Technical Communication Summit. Registration is available online at the STC website at http://conference.stc.org/register/, as well as by fax and mail. This site also has a sample letter to your boss that makes a case for [...]
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Tags: 56th, early bird rate, technical communication summit