We are pleased to announce that nine of our entries to the International Communication Competitions won awards this year. See 2007-2008 Competition Winners Lists for all our local competitions winners. Winners of the international competitions are on display at the Annual Conference (Technical Summit) in June. For the full list of all international winners, see [...]
Congratulations to Our International Competitions Winners!
May 31st, 2008by Cyn · No Comments Yet
Tags: Addison-Wesley Professional, Alison Davis, Andrew Jaquith, Arthur F. Pease, Bruce Attavian, Chapter News, Competitions, congratulations, Exceptional Software Strategies, Ginny Redish, Greg Kerr, John Patterson, Lindsay Pack, Michael Perry, NIH / NIGMS, Palladian, PERC, Rebecca Frasure, Rebecca Popka, Shervonne Cherry, Siemens, Stephen Namie, Sylvie Schuresko, TJ Pawlikowski, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Westat, William Kileen, winners announced
Chapter Members’ Recent Publications
March 25th, 2008by Cyn · No Comments Yet
The Chapter Members’ Publications list on the main site has been updated with the following:
Author
Publication
Renee Barnow
Action Based Communication: Changing Experience through Language
AuthorHouse, Inc. (December 2007).
Steven C. Oppenheimer
Patent Careers for Technical Writers, Engineers, Scientists, and Medical Professionals
Oppenheimer Communications (January 2008).
Steven C. Oppenheimer
Spying On The College Of Your Choice is a guide book [...]
Tags: careers, college, communication, Ginny Redish, members' publications, patent agent, Renee Barnow, Steven Oppenheimer, writing for the Web
Ginny Redish’s New Book Reviewed in “Communicator’s eNEWS”
September 25th, 2007by Cyn · No Comments Yet
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 [...]
Tags: book, book review, Ginny Redish, Web design, writing for the Web
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