• How the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses social media to improve communication and debunk myths
• How social media can support your organization’s mission and assist in decision-making
• Best practices for implementation of a social media strategy

Registration ends March 10. Sign up now!

Details/Registration:
http://stcwdcseminarandcelebration.eventbrite.com/

Congratulations to David Dayton, Ph.D., who won a free registration to the WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance by registering early for the STC WDC Seminar and Awards Celebration!

David Dayton is an Assistant Professor in Technical Communication at Towson University and is looking forward to attending the conference. He will share his conference impressions with the STC WDC Chapter later in 2010.

The STC Washington, DC Chapter is pleased to present the lists of winners for our local competitions for which we had 36 entries this year. Entry titles, contributors, and the organizations they represent are listed on the following pages.

• Online Communication winners: http://www.stcwdc.org/0910owinners.shtml
• Technical Publications winners: http://www.stcwdc.org/0910pwinners.shtml

Winners of the Distinguished Technical Communication Award go on to the STC International Technical Publication Competition (ITPC) or the International Online Communication Competition (IOCC). Winners of the international competitions are presented at the STC Annual Conference in May. (Student entries at this award level are not allowed as entries in the STC international competitions.)

All net proceeds from the chapter’s competitions will benefit our scholarship funds for high school and college students. In each competition, the student who submits the best student entry will receive an $800 scholarship. (If the entry has multiple contributors, the $800 scholarship will be divided among them.)

Best of Show and Best Student Entry Winners

"Our Changing Planet: The View from Space" is the 2009-2010 Technical Publications Competition Best of Show Winner entered by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Contributors to this entry are the following:
Michael King, Claire Parkinson, Winnie Humberson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center;
Kim Partington, Polar Imaging Ltd.;
Robin Williams, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.;
Sally Bensusen, Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, Debbi McLean, Mark Malanoski, Wyle Information Systems, Inc.;
Jesse Allen, Robert Simmon, Sigma Space Corporation;
Reto Stockli, MeteoSwiss.

"Teknos: The Journal of Science, Mathematics, and Technology 2009" is the 2009-2010 Technical Publications Competition Best Student Entry Winner entered by Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Contributors to this entry are the following:
Aaron Koenig, John Woodwell, Kevin Boehm, Blair Graham, Su Hyen Bae, Akshay Deverakonda, Hari Devanathan, Siddarth Hariharan, Jeremy Owen, Esther Wang.

Awards Celebration and Seminar

The winners will receive their awards at the Awards Celebration and Seminar on 13 March 2010. TSA’s blogger, Curtis “Bob” Burns, manager of the Transportation Security Administration’s blog will present a Social Media Seminar.

All winning entries will be on display at the Awards Celebration. You do not need to be part of the competitions to attend. You may find some interesting ideas for your work by looking at the winning entries on display.

Please join us in congratulating all the winners of the 2009-2010 competitions.

• Tuesday, February 9 — Seminar Series — Postponed to Tuesday, April 6.
• Thursday, February 11 — Norm Augustine — “U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans” — Kenwood Club, Bethesda. — Postponed to Tuesday, February 23. >>> Registrants, we’ve emailed you, but if you didn’t hear from us, just e-mail cjo@alum.mit.edu and let us know you a) can come with same number of guests; b) can come but want to change the number of guests; c) can come but don’t remember how many guests you signed up; d) can’t come.

Their remaining schedule for February remains the same:

• Tuesday, February 16 — Iqbal Quadir — Founder of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT, and Bangladesh telecom entrepreneur, at Maggiano’s Restaurant, Friendship Heights, DC.
• Thursday, February 18 — Annual Gala of the MIT Enterprise Forum — Co-hosted by the MIT Club, this popular event is sure to appeal to all entrepreneurial alums as well as hi-tech investors. This year’s Gala is at an exciting new location, the Canadian Embassy. (Note that it is on a different day than previously published.)
• Thursday, February 25– Former NASA astronaut, Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84 will speak to us at a dinner meeting at the Kenwood Club in Bethesda. The title of her talk is “Unexpected Repairs at 220 Miles High.”
• Saturday, February 27 — Terra Cotta Warriors — We’re on for a 12:30 p.m. tour of this popular National Geographic exhibition.

For details about these events and for events scheduled for March and April, see their Calendar of Events at http://alumweb.mit.edu/clubs/washingtondc/calendar/fy10/calendarFeb.html.