STC WDC-MB Blog

EEI Communications announces an updated new edition of their popular and award-winning book, E-What? A Guide to the Quirks of New Media Style & Usage. Under the new title of The Elements of Internet Style, the book provides the new rules for creating valuable content and presents publishing trends and audience expectations of Web readers. [...]

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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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STC member, Sarah Horton, wrote about accessibility and the Web in her book “Access by Design”. There is an excellent book review on the SAP Design Guild site at http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_acc_design.asp. The review is a thorough discussion of the book and the whole reason for the book. It might even inspire you when you think about [...]

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The Chapter Members’ Publications list on the main site has been updated with the following: Author Publication Renee Barnow Action Based Communication: Changing Experience through Language AuthorHouse, Inc. (December 2007). Steven C. Oppenheimer Patent Careers for Technical Writers, Engineers, Scientists, and Medical Professionals Oppenheimer Communications (January 2008). Steven C. Oppenheimer Spying On The College Of [...]

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STC Scientific Communication SIG member, Dr. Peter Aitken, sent the following book announcement: Hello, We are pleased to announce the publication of Microsoft Word for Medical and Technical Writers by Peter G. Aitken, PhD and Maxine M. Okazaki, PhD As a technical writer, you probably use Microsoft Word to create long, complex documents such as [...]

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Janice (Ginny) Redish, a member of the Washington DC Chapter, has a new book out called “Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works”, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2007, 380 pp., $49.95 (plus s&h; http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780123694867 or through http://www.redish.net). The “Communicator’s eNEWS”, Issue 78, September 2007, says that “This is a great guide for a [...]

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