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We all depend on professional and social Networking to form the relationships and to obtain the information that we need to survive socially and professionally. “Networking” and “Connections” are impersonal terms to use when describing a human activity that is as old as human society and the spoken word—such terms make us sound as if [...]

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STC member, Sarah Horton, wrote about accessibility and the Web in her book “Access by Design”. There is an excellent book review on the SAP Design Guild site at
http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_acc_design.asp.
The review is a thorough discussion of the book and the whole reason for the book. It might even inspire you when you think about writing a [...]

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Janice (Ginny) Redish, a member of the Washington DC Chapter, has a new book out called “Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works”, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2007, 380 pp., $49.95 (plus s&h; http://www.mkp.com or through http://www.redish.net). The “Communicator’s eNEWS”, Issue 78, September 2007, says that “This is a great guide for a [...]

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The Spring 2007 edition of Capital Letter is now available at: http://www.stcwdc.org/PDF/newsletter_spring07.pdf
Highlights in this issue include:
* Regular columnist Marylyn King (The Manager’s Files) not only reviewed all of our winter 2007 monthly events (pp. 10 and 11), but she also wrote the cover story about this year’s competitions. Since most of the activity for the [...]

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