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City Hall, PhiladelphiaPhoto credit: Lina Scorza

I’ve just posted a collection of photos by the chapter’s First Vice President, Lina Scorza, that she took at the Annual Conference in Philadelphia in June. There are three that I could not find information about so if you know, please send us a message or make a comment [...]

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Twemes.com follows public Twitter.com tweets (messages) that have embedded tags that start with a # character. These are sometimes called hashtags but we like to use the term “twemes”.
Through the use of twemes, we can all view what people are talking about across the whole Twitter universe. [...]

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The schedule for STC annual conferences was announced at the 2008 Technical Summit:
2009 Atlanta, GA 3-6 May
2010 Dallas, TX
2011 Sacramento, CA
2012 Rosemont, IL
2013 Atlanta, GA
A call for proposals for the Atlanta conference will be issued in September.

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Chapter member Carla Christiano says:
I attended the STC conference in Philly last week. Now that I’ve returned to work, I’ve been thinking about ways that I can apply what I learned at the conference. Then I wondered what changes others were going to make or what lessons they have learned from the conference.
So, I [...]

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Chapter member Bruce Curley posted a bunch of photos from the 2008 STC Technical Communication Summit in Philadelphia on his blog.
Enjoy!

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The following information was provided by Allen Rotz. While at the conference in Philadelphia, check out the interesting adaptive use of the Reading Railroad Terminal: http://www.paconvention.com/art/history.asp. It also includes the Reading Terminal Market which has several interesting eateries for lunch. Some serve breakfast.

http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/about/
http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/merchants/category/pennsylvaniadutch Unfortunately, the Pennsylvania Dutch businesses are only open Wed-Sat.
http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/merchants/category/restaurants
From the Washington Post’s [...]

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[ June 1, 2008 to June 4, 2008. ] Join us at the 55th Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Register on-site in Philadelphia. Questions and information requests may be directed to Priscilla Weeks at priscilla.weeks@stc.org, or 571-366-1914.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
US
Headquarters Hotel: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Toll free in the US: 1 800.320.5744
Outside the US: +1 215.625.2900
Room Rates: US [...]

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The AccessAbility SIG has published information about Getting around at the 2008 conference in Philly. It has illustrated directions from the Market East Platform to the PA Convention Center or the Philadelphia Marriott.
For those who are arriving by train at the Amtrak station, there is a note about how to transfer from the Amtrak station [...]

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The AccessAbility SIG of STC is pleased to bring you another STC conference accessibility guide. Look for it on the conference site under "Accessibility" to help you plan your journey to Philadelphia and the 2008 Technical Communication Summit.
Feedback from attendees at the 2007 conference shaped the accessibility guide for this year’s conference. The attendees [...]

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