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Entries from March 2009

What is a Technical Writer?

March 25th, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off

TranslationAn answer found on YouTube… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mWzHzTlgLk

Tags: technical writer, video, what is

Drastic Typos Call For Creative Measures

March 23rd, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off

TranslationFrom NPR’s Storycorps: Recording America comes a story about an innovative solution for some typos in a published and distributed newspaper. http://tinyurl.com/cxfbb9.

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Tags: editing, solution, typos, writing

STC Offers 250 Summit Scholarships to Members Who Have Been Laid Off

March 23rd, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off

TranslationRecognizing the impact the economic downturn has had on technical communicators, STC will grant 250 scholarships to members who have been laid off, let go, downsized, or have been forced to take a pay cut of 10 percent or more. Scholarships of $400 will be given to members wishing to attend the STC Technical Communication [...]

Technical Summit 2009 Tweme is #stc09

March 21st, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off

Translation Conference attendees are already sending Twitter.com tweets. The Twemes.com site collects all related tweets containing the same hashtags or Twitter memes, which they call “twemes”. Use the tweme of #stc09 for tweets related to planning for and attending the 2009 Technical Summit. Twemes.com also pulls in any Flickr and Del.icio.us bookmarks that contain the [...]

STCWDC on Twitter

March 21st, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off

Translation The Washington, DC Chapter has opened a new communication channel called Twitter. We tweet at http://twitter.com/stcwdc. Our Twitter RSS feed is http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/25690406.rss Tweet? Twitter? Tweeple? Twitter is often called micro-blogging. Entries posted to Twitter can only contain 140 characters. These postings, or messages, are called tweets. People who tweet are called tweeple. We have [...]

Technical Summit 2009 Room-Share Forum

March 20th, 2009by Cyn · Comments Off

Translation Alan Houser, head of the program planning committee for the STC conference, shares the news about a room-sharing forum just posted to the STC Forum. If you share a room at the Summit hotel, you can cut your travel costs. The forum is at http://stcforum.org/viewtopic.php?id=1659 Post your arrival and departure dates to the forum. [...]

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