STC WDC-MB Blog

Meet Jason Cranford Teague and Brad Smith Monday, October 3, 2011, 6-9 PM Science Club http://www.scienceclubdc.com/ 1136 19th St NW, Washington DC RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2247965726 Design for Web and mobile is evolving at a rapid pace. What are the trends and bold ideas that will help you work smarter, faster and more effectively? Join author [...]

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September 30-October 1, 2011 at the Courtyard by Marriott Baltimore Downtown/Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD STC members are eligible for a colleagues’ discount on registration for “Editorial Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century,” the 6th Annual “Build Your Busines” Conference of Communication Central, coming to Baltimore for the first time. (Communication Central’s first event outside Rochester, NY!) [...]

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UserFocus, the area’s premier conference for and by local usability professionals, will be held Friday, September 16 at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel. The conference, hosted each year by the DC Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association, is a great place to learn about new trends in usability, share experiences with other local practitioners, and [...]

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This Thursday evening’s chapter event, Government Proposal Writing 101, will be rescheduled due to a scheduling mistake by the restaurant. As soon as a new date is announced, I will post it here. We are sorry for this inconvenience and ask for your understanding.

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Nearly 20 of us attended the chapter meeting last night at the Gaithersburg Hilton, which featured two useful presentations by accomplished speakers Annette Reilly and Carolyn Watt. Annette heads STC’s Standards Council and chairs the US ISO group (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC7 US TAG), which is meeting this week in Maryland to develop an international standard [...]

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Want to know what the current thinking is among those who codify our profession? Ever wonder who those people are who define the ISO standards? Our chapter will host the ISO group while they’re here in D.C. for their collaborative work on technical engineering and documentation standards. Come meet some ISO members and hear two STC [...]

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