STC WDC-MB Blog

You may have noticed that the recent job announcements had some formatting problems. This has been fixed. There is a plugin that handles the job postings and whenever WordPress is updated to a new revision, the tailored files in the plugin templates for our blog gets set back to the original formatting. Everything is back [...]

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The Job Announcements listings have been moved from the main site to a Job Board on the blog. This move allows us to automate many of the processes we used for the job announcements on the main site. We are using the WPJobBoard plugin for WordPress with some additional enhancements for extra fields and usability. [...]

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Location: 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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We’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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All the photos from various events that were posted on the main site have been moved to the Flickr account. Additional photo sets were created for previously unpublished photos. To see the full directory of the chapter’s photo sets by year and event, see http://www.stcwdc.org/photo_archives.shtml on the main site. This groups photo sets by year [...]

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Improvements for Snap Shots from Snap.com I just updated a blog tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more. Sometimes Snap Shots bring you [...]

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