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TranslationSpeakers: Gabe Goldberg and Kristen King) Location: NRECA Conference Center Directions to the event: http://www.stcwdc.org/directions_to_nreca.shtml Cost: * $15 for all * FREE for full-time student guest of a paid attendee (student guest must register) Join us for a night of networking tips from local successful freelancers Gabe Goldberg and Kristen King as they share advice [...]

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TranslationPhotos taken by Rachel Houghton, Carolyn Kelley Klinger, and Cynthia A. Lockley are up. So far there are 40 photos available. If anyone else has photos to add to the Washington, DC Chapter’s conference collection, please use the Contact Us form to let us know. This year’s conference photos are at http://www.stcwdc.org/wdcblog/photos/album/72157617839658209/2009-stc-tech-comm-summit-atlanta-ga.html All our photo [...]

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TranslationTom Johnson of the STC Intermountain Chapter interviewed Ginny Redish at Tech Summit 09 about her award winning book, Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works. A podcast of the interview is posted on his blog at http://tinyurl.com/cse72w. Tom writes about the latest trends in technical communication in his blog, "I’d Rather [...]

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TranslationDavid Pogue, the Keynote speaker at the STC conference, gave one of the funniest keynotes we’ve ever had. It was a shame that it wasn’t recorded. However, I found a recording of a similar keynote address he gave to TED last year. The first half is similar to the one he gave to us and [...]

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TranslationTwo Twitter RSS feeds for DC Jobs are now included on the chapter’s Job Announcement pages and the home page. These feeds are for Web Development and Writer jobs listed on the Career Builder site. See http://www.stcwdc.org/index.shtml (Home page) http://www.stcwdc.org/employ.shtml (Employment Resources) http://www.stcwdc.org/jobs_1.shtml#INTERNET (Internet Technology: Webmaster, Web Developer, Web Designer, Content Controller, Content Manager) http://www.stcwdc.org/jobs_2.shtml#TWRTR [...]

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