The WDC Chapter’s 2008-2009 Technical Communication Competitions are now open! See http://www.stcwdc.org/compete.shtml for details and entry forms. Put your best work on the map!
Washington, DC Landsat image. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Entry deadline:7 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday, 20 October 2008
Please consider participating this year in one or all three competitions: online communication, technical art, and technical publications. By participating in the competitions, you can
Enter your best work to receive valuable feedback and potential awards
Volunteer to judge and evaluate entries with your peers
If you’d like to be added to our mailing list for the Call for Entries for this and future competitions, send a message to the Competitions E-mail List. .
August 23rd, 2008 by Carolyn Kelley Klinger · No Comments Yet
On August 13 an email with a link to the 2008 STC WDC Salary Survey went out to all chapter members. To date, 101 responses have come in. We’re keeping the survey open until September 13. If you haven’t received your invitation, contact me. You may also want to check your spam folder to see if the invitation is in there.
Interesting results so far! One hint: the professional skill respondents would most like to develop is content management. Full results will only be available to chapter members. Yet another great reason to join STC WDC today!
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, Energy and Happiness …Only a breath away!
Learn easy techniques to:
- Reduce stress
- Increase energy and clarity
- Relax the body
- Calm the mind
Your professional success often depends on your professional relationships. LinkedIn is professional networking that helps you get in touch or get back in touch with people who have helped or can help your career, find a new job, or find a client. If there is someone you’ve worked with that you’d like to give a recommendation for—you don’t have to wait to be asked to write one. Write it now—surprise them. They get a chance to review it and decide whether or not to post it to their profile. You may also request recommendations from your co-workers or bosses (three gets you to 100% of your profile if you’ve filled out everything else in the profile.) LinkedIn has many groups you can join such as alumni groups of corporations and universities, special interests, professional, and more. Search for ones to join at http://www.linkedin.com/groupsDirectory?trk=hb_side_grpsdir
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 25 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries.
When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.
Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals.
Through your network you can
Find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and partners who come recommended
Be found for business opportunities
Search for great jobs
Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals
Post and distribute job listings
Find high-quality passive candidates
Get introduced to other professionals through the people you know
LinkedIn participates in the EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework and is certified to meet the strict privacy guidelines of the European Union. All relationships on LinkedIn are mutually confirmed, and no one appears in the LinkedIn Network without knowledge and explicit consent.
The STC 2007 Salary Database (containing salary information for 2006 and 2007) is an exclusive member benefit and is available to members without charge. Log on to the STC site and download your copy of the PDF to use to conduct more powerful job searches, make a strong case for a raise, or prepare department payroll budgets.
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 on the Flickr page. One is “Old House” and the other two are sculptures in the Convention Center.
See the group of photos from the conference at http://www.stcwdc.org/wdcblog/photos/. And while you are there, check out some of the other Flickr groups we’ve joined that we think you might enjoy.
24 July 2008—NASA and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, made available the most comprehensive compilation ever of NASA’s vast collection of photographs, historic film and video Thursday. Located at http://www.nasaimages.org the Internet site combines for the first time 21 major NASA imagery collections into a single, searchable online resource. A link to the Web site will appear on the http://www.nasa.gov home page.
The Web site launch is the first step in a five-year partnership that will add millions of images and thousands of hours of video and audio content, with enhanced search and viewing capabilities, and new user features on a continuing basis. Over time, integration of www.nasaimages.org with www.nasa.gov will become more seamless and comprehensive.
“This partnership with Internet Archive enables NASA to provide the American public with access to its vast collection of imagery from one searchable source, unlocking a new treasure trove of discoveries for students, historians, enthusiasts and researchers,” said NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale. “This new resource also will enable the agency to digitize and preserve historical content now not available on the Internet for future generations.”
Through a competitive process, NASA selected Internet Archive to manage the NASA Images Web site under a non-exclusive Space Act agreement, signed in July 2007. The five-year project is at no cost to the taxpayer and the images are free to the public [but you should provide credit to NASA for any image used].
“NASA’s media is an incredibly important and valuable national asset. It is a tremendous honor for the Internet Archive to be NASA’s partner in this project,” says Brewster Kahle, founder of Internet Archive. “We are excited to mark this first step in a long-term collaboration to create a rich and growing public resource.”
The content of the Web site covers all the diverse activities of America’s space program, including imagery from the Apollo moon missions, Hubble Space Telescope views of the universe and experimental aircraft past and present. Keyword searching is available with easy-to-use resources for teachers and students.
Internet Archive is developing the NASA Images project using software donated by Luna Imaging Inc. of Los Angeles and with the generous support of the Kahle-Austin Foundation of San Francisco.
—NASA
July 9th, 2008—Looking for a fun way to keep up with all the cool science and engineering breakthroughs that are taking place at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center? Now available for free from the iTunes store is the official NASA Goddard Shorts podcast series.
By going on iTunes and subscribing to the new podcast, you will gain an “all access” pass to the center, with short videos about the fascinating work being carried out by some of the most talented individuals that NASA employs.
Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Greenbelt, Md., is home to the Nation’s largest organization of scientists and engineers working to expand our knowledge of the Earth, solar system and the Universe. Goddard has dedicated its mission to discover and learn more about space and Earth sciences so that we may obtain a better understanding of our planet and the mysteries of the universe. With so many exciting projects going on at the center, this new podcast series gives us a chance to show the world what we’re up to.—NASA
The world’s worst cooking video shows you how to make a meal that will make everyone you know horribly, horribly sick. It’s also an incredible piece of stop-motion art. Made by PES
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