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The Washington, DC chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) is holding a social event/happy hour on Thursday, March 25 from 6-8 pm. It will be at La Tasca in Chinatown, Washington DC, located at 722 7th St, NW (202-347-9190). Free for UPA-DC members; $20 for non-members, which includes UPA-DC membership!
More information & registration:
http://www.upa-dc-metro.org/events/2010/03-25-10.htm
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The MIT Club of Washington, DC, which is listed in our Events from Related Organizations page, has new dates for events that were affected by the snow storms.

Tuesday, February 9 — Seminar Series — Postponed to Tuesday, April 6.
Thursday, February 11 — Norm Augustine — “U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans” — Kenwood Club, [...]

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Register by 15 February at http://stcwdcseminarandcelebration.eventbrite.com to be entered in a raffle for a FREE registration to the WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance on March 21-24. That’s a $995 value!
On Saturday, 13 March, the WDC Chapter will hold a social media seminar featuring Curtis “Bob” Burns, manager of the Transportation Security Administration’s blog. The [...]

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Carolyn Kelley Klinger’s handout for the "Designing Accessible Documents for Everyone" workshop held on 23 January 2010 is now available. This is an accessible PDF file.
Making Word or FrameMaker Files 508 Compliant for PDFs

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[ February 24, 2010; ] The STC Instructional Design & Learning (IDL) SIG announces scholarship opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.
Purpose
The IDL SIG scholarship was created to assist students who are pursuing an undergraduate degree, graduate degree, or certificate in the area of Instructional Design. Students applying for this scholarship are expected to demonstrate their focus on topics related to [...]

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