Previous Meetings

If there is no link to a page for a meeting, check the STC Toronto newsletter for the next month to see a meeting review or check the same month to see an announcement.

• List of speaker profiles

2004

13 April - "Privacy Policies for Industry" - Mario Morel (PDF) and Peggy McChesney

9 March - "Writing to Sell" - Kara Kuryllowicz

10 February - "One Hundred Years of Technical Communication" - Ron Blicq

13 January- "Out of the Picture: Visual Communication" - Patrick Hofmann

2003

9 December - "Empowering your Professional Self" - Patrick McCormack

11 November - "XML Content Management and Formatting" - Rob Frankland

9 October - "Translation 101" - Oleg Kuzin

9 September - "XML Content Management in Technical Publishing" - Alex Pozvner

10 June - "Conference Nuggets" - Robert Milkovich, Ralph Robinson, Gilda Spitz

13 May - "Publishing XML with XSL: A Survey of Tools and Techniques" - Derek Millar

8 April - Developing an E-learning Course: Lessons Learned - Ralph Robinson and Carolyn Watt

11 March - Single-sourcing Deconstructed: your résumé - Rob Hanna, Michele Marques, Byron Hills; moderator Andrew Brooke

11 February - Wine & cheese party: Promoting yourself - Carolyn Watt and Mona Albano

14 January - Enterprise Content Management - Ann Rockley

2002

2002 December 10 - Information architecture for online user assistance - Jamie Roberts

2002 November 12 - Communicating science to a general audience - Kevin Von Appen, Ontario Science Centre

2002 October 8 - Managing your career - Andrew Brooke

2002 September 10 - Taking aim at bad Web sites - Wayne MacPhail

2002 June 11 - Plain language and jargon - Sally McBeth, Clear Language and Design. Presentation of annual chapter awards for 2001 - 2.

2002 May 14 - Requirements Engineering - Steve Easterbrook. Check his page for many useful resources and current conferences on this discipline.

2002 April 9 - Using FrameMaker to create HTML, XML, and online help - Bernard Aschwanden

2002 March 12 - Finding your next job - Mona Albano, Michael Barwick, Kim Van Rooy

2002 February 12 - Wine & cheese party with resources for new members

2002 January 8 - The Psychology of Technical Writing - Klaus Hofer, Communications & Training, Inc.

2001

2001 December 11 - Can technical writers bridge the usability gap? Solving social problems by design - Prof. Kim Vicente, University of Toronto

2001 November 13 - An XML architecture for documentation - Michael Priestley, IBM Canada

2001 October 9 - Low-cost single-sourcing - Tim Grantham, CRS Robotics

2001 September 11 - Creating usable PDFs - Shlomo Perets, MicroType, Inc., Israel.

2001 June 12 - Report on the STC's annual international conference. Presentation of annual chapter awards.

2001 May 8 - Getting the most out of your graphic designer - Brian Grebow, We Are Your Type; David Hines, Riça Night (moderator)

2001 April 10 - Dealing with difficult people - Bill Byrd, Toronto District School Board

2001 March 13 - Challenges of online learning - Cherie Ferrari, CDI Learning Inc.

2001 February 13 - Wine and cheese party - Knowledge Management - Jamie Conklin

2001 January 9 - Training is not documentation - Kathleen McAleer and Karen Conlin, Financial Models Corp.

2000

2000 December 12 - Writing for the Web - Kate Baggott, Blast Radius

2000 November 14 - panel discussion on Management - Berktin, Morgenstein, Paterson, & Anderson

2000 October 10 - New printing technologies - John Negru, Leading Graphics

2000 September 12 - Getting paid what you’re worth - Mona Albano, David Gow, Laurie Pearce

2000 June 13

2000 May 9 - Effective usability techniques for Web-based design - Deb Maskens, Patrick Hofmann, Leanne Logan

2000 April 11 - Single Sourcing panel - Ann Rockley, Steve Chalastra, Bob McIlvride, Dawn Curtis, moderator Jane Aronovitch

2000 March 14 - Humour in Technical Communication - Carolyn Watt, Mark Hanigan

2000 February 8 - Wine & cheese party with Software Tools café

2000 January 11 - Words, Pictures, and Practice in Technical Communication - Bob Krull, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1999

1999 December 14 - Web-based training and the future of knowledge management - Michelle Hutchinson of Hutchinson Communications

1999 November 9 - Corporate Portals - Doug Knox of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and John Wooden

1999 October 12 - STC competition: display of 1998 International Competition winning entries. Discussion of STC competition
- Jane Aronovitch, Catherine McNair, Deb Maskens, and Roy Hartshorn

1999 September 14 - Fantasies, fears, and science in the public mind - Bob McDonald of CBC's Quirks and Quarks science programme

1999 June 8 - Finding your Niche -- "Technical Communication: What We Do and How We Do It" - Joe Cooper, Patrick Hofmann, Pamela Kostur, Gordon Miller, Ralph Robinson, Gilda Spitz, and Mary-Ann Wilson

1999 May 11

1999 April 13

1999 March 9

1999 February 9

1999 January 12

1998

1998 December 9

1998 November 10

1998 October 13

1998 September 8

1998 June 9 - field trip to the Bell Centre for Creative Communications, Centennial College - Nancy Paterson and Scot Cameron

1998 May 12 - Pushing the information envelope: New information retrieval strategies

1998 April 14 - Richard Reynolds, CBC Newsworld

1998 March 10 - Electronic document management systems - Ann Rockley

1998 February 10 - wine & cheese party - Leading the Internet revolution - Dr. W. John Reeves and Michael Lordly of infinet Communications

1998 January 13 - Preventing repetitive strain injury - Dwayne Van Eerd

1997

1997 December 9 - Designing user-centred interfaces - Paul Eisen, CIBC

1997 November 11 - Less is more: Web publishiing systems for wired communities - Ron Reisenbach, Telepresence Systems Inc.

1997 October 14 - What makes a winner? - STC Publications contest

1997 September 9 - Lessons learned - Jane Aronovitch, Stephanie Copp, Roy Hartshorn, Michelle Hutchinson, Ben Keevil, Leanne Logan, Ralph Robinson, Ann Rockley, and Carolyn Watt.

1997 June 10

1997 May 13

1997 April 8

1997 March 11

1997 February 11

1997 January 14

1996

1996 December 10

1996 November 12

1996 October 8

1996 September 10

1996 August 13 - executive meeting

1996 June 11 - Education for Technical Communication - Roy Hartshorn, Stephanie Copp, Cherie Ferrari

1996 May 5 - 8 - International Technical Communication Conference in Seattle

1996 April 9

1996 March 12 - The Value of Technical Communication - Saul Carliner (or a presentation by Art Young and Linda Meissenheimer)

1996 February 13

1996 January 9

1995

1995 December 12 - The Value of Online Documentation - Ann Rockley; Christmas reception

1995 November 14 - Project Management

1995 October 10 - travelling exhibit - last year's competition winners

1995 September 12 - Marketing Technical Communication - Jamie Conklin

1995 June 23 - executive meeting

1995 June 13

1995 May 9 - introduction of executive and their duties

1995 April 11

1995 March 14

1995 February 14

1995 January 10

1994

1994 December 13

1994 November 8

1994 October 11

1994 September 13

1994 June 14 - ISO standards and documentation - William Zub of QMI

1994 May 10 - How technical writers write - Dave Goodwin (planned)

1994 April 10 - Competitive analysis of online documentation software (planned)

1994 March 8 - Audience and task analysis - David Sigatich, Instructional designer at CIBC (planned)

1994 February 8 - Show and Tell our of work (planned)

1994 January 11 - Translation issues (planned)

1993

1993 December 14 - Christmas dinner and dance

1993 November 9 - Demo of online documentation from the competition- Tony Alderson

1993 October 12 - What is SGML? - Phil Robataille (planned)

1993 September 14 -

1993 June 8 - new executive and next year's programme

1993 May 11 - Reading theory - Dale Willows

1993 April 12 - Research from University of Waterloo

1993 March 27 - STC awards night

1993 March 9 - Usability - Desirée Sy

1993 February 9 - Contracting and the Contractors' SIG

1993 January 12 - Online documentation demos - Dov Lungu, John Cameron, Ann Rockley

1992

1992 December 15 - STC Toronto Christmas party

1992 December 8 - dinner meeting followed by The editing process - Ann Stilman - and collection of children's books for Christmas donation

1992 December 1 - executive meeting

1992 November 17 - Consulting Professional Interest Committee dinner meeting followed by general meeting

1992 October 13 - Graphics with text - Mike Rosen

1992 October 5 - executive meeting

1992 September 19 - Picnic and corn roast in Niagara-on-the-Lake with Rochester Chapter

1992 September 8 - Contractors' SIG dinner meeting followed by general meeting

1992 August 11 - Contractors' SIG dinner meeting

1992 July 14 - Contractors' SIG dinner meeting - Estimating

1992 July 13 - executive meeting

1992 June 9

1992 May 12

1992 April 14

1992 March 10

1992 February 11

1992 January 14

1991

1991 December 10

1991 November 12

1991 October 8

1991 September 10

1991 June 11 - Plain Language

1991 May 14 - Annual conference - no Toronto meeting

1991 April 9 - Education and course evaluations

1991 March 12

1991 February 12 - Persuasive writing: ethos, rhetoric, sales

1991 January 8

1990

December 1990

November 1990

October 1990

September 1990 - Hypertext

June 1990 - ITCC recap and presentations

May 1990 - International TC conference: no Toronto meeting

April 1990 - Training

March 1990 - presentation of competition awards

February 1990 - Time management and project management

January 1990 - Design and production

1989

December 1989 - Training videos

November 1989 - Employment and free trade

October 1989 - Desktop publishing exhibition

10 - 13 September 1989 - Technicom '89 conference; Keynote speaker: Ed Weiss. No general meeting

June 1989 - ITCC recap and presentations - Roy Hartshorn, Don Hinson, David Gow, Steve Vincent

May 1989

April 1989

March 1989

February 1989

January 1989

1988

(executive meeting: Tuesday before meeting)

13 December 1988 - Time Management - Joan Lee

8 November 1988

11 October 1988

2 October 1988 - STC dinner meeting

13 September 1988

14 June 1988

18 May 1988 - Freelancers' ("Gypsy") SIG dinner meeting

10 May 1988

13 April 1988

8 March 1988

4 March 1988 - STC competition awards banquet

23 February 1988 - STC Ventura Publisher SIG meeting

9 February 1988

26 January 1988 - STC Training SIG meeting - Ed Weiss

20 January 1988 - STC Freelancers' SIG dinner meeting

12 January 1988 - Career night

1987

December 1987

November 1987

October 1987

September 1987

June 1987

May 1987

April 1987

March 1987

February 1987

January 1987

1986

December 1986

November 1986

October 1986

September 1986

June 1986

May 1986

April 1986

March 1986

February 1986

January 1986