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[ August 21, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Organization name:
The Art of Living Foundation: creating a violence-free, stress-free society.
Event Type: Seminar
Theme / Title: An internationally acclaimed seminar based on innovative breathing techniques that reduce stress and heighten mental clarity and awareness.
Date: August 21, 2008
Time: 6.00 p.m.
Event description: Health, [...]

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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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[ August 27, 2008 to August 29, 2008. ] MadCap Software is pleased to announce that WDC Chapter member, Eddie VanArsdall, MadCap Software Certified Instructor, will be personally conducting their comprehensive 3-day Training Seminar on MadCap Flare. Mr. VanArsdall has over sixteen years of experience as a technical writer, editor, instructional designer, trainer, and document production specialist. In addition to designing information solutions [...]

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Technical Summit tweets are aggregated at Twemes.
About Twemes:
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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[ June 27, 2008; 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. ] We and the STC Technical Editing SIG are proud to announce our next webinar, “Words, Words, Words: Controlling the Unnecessary Sprawl of Terminology.” Get more information here. Register by clicking Sign up now! in the upper right corner.

Although there are plenty of words in our language to choose from, our technical environments unconsciously encourage [...]

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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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