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The e-mail part of the newsletter consists of the News and Events section. All links to other articles below will take you to our website. News and Events A Writer's World: The Matrix Redocumented May Meeting Report: From Michelangelo to Madonna... The Wandering Eye: Technical Communications Blogs From the President's Desk Are You on the Endangered Species List? Information Architecture of Content Development The Opportunity of a Lifetime
About the STC: The Society for Technical Communication is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. It is the largest organization of its type in the world. Its 25,000 members include technical writers and editors, content developers, documentation specialists, technical illustrators, instructional designers, academics, information architects, usability and human factors professionals, visual designers, Web designers and developers, and translators - anyone whose work makes technical information available to those who need it. The STC Toronto Chapter was founded in 1959 (then the Society of Technical Writers) and is the largest chapter in Canada. About this Newsletter: This newsletter is produced monthly by the STC Toronto Chapter and is sent to all registered members. If you have any feedback or ideas, please e-mail editor Philip Kahn at: newsletter@stctoronto.org Our mailing list comes directly from the STC, so if you want to receive the newsletter at another address you will need to login to their members profile section and update your information. The STC Toronto Chapter will not share nor sell our address list and will only send e-mails with information we believe to be useful and relevant to our members. |
News and Events:
STC Chapter Awards Night - This Tuesday!
Please join us in congratulating our competition award winners and recognizing the achievements of many of the hardworking, dedicated members that have enriched our professional lives over the past year. Regional and international award winning entries will be on display for the evening. The chapter's outgoing president, Robert Milkovich, will introduce you to many of the volunteers that have made the chapter program possible as well as welcome in the new executive committee. This is a great opportunity for you to share in great conversation and enjoy a light snack while perusing the many outstanding examples of quality technical communication works. See the Competitions page for the 2004-2005 competition results. When: Where:
Join us for a round table discussion with a number of experts that have joined us over the past year to bring you up to speed with their projects and answer questions. We will introduce some plans for next year and talk about how we hope to reenergize the society-level SIG. Meeting starts at 7 PM at the FrontRunner offices at Yonge and St. Clair. Please send your RSVP via email to rob.hanna@ascan.ca or call 416-723-4183 if you wish to attend.
We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help out with the following positions on the 2005-2006 Executive Committee:
If you are interested, please contact Incoming President, Rob Hanna, at rob.hanna@ascan.ca.
After 2 years of editing the STC Newsletter, I will be stepping back to let the inimitable Andrew Brooke take over the job. It has been a stimulating and rewarding experience and I want to say a H-U-G-E thank you to my regular writers who always came through with great articles: Andrew Brooke, Keith Soltys and Susan Webb. Big thanks also to Robert Milkovich and the STC Executive team for all their help, support and ideas. I will miss working on the newsletter but I have two big startup projects on the go right now that are monopolizing my time... :-) Philip Kahn Structured Writing Workshop in Ottawa Thursday July 7, JoAnn Hackos will be presenting a two-day workshop on Structured Writing for Single Sourcing in Gatineau, Quebéc (Ottawa) hosted by PCI Geomatics. To implement a single-sourcing strategy for information development and publishing, it is strongly recommend that organizations structure the content they produce. Well-structured content leads to more opportunities for reuse across products, user communities, delivery media, and other dimensions. For more information, visit the Comtech website.
Would you like to tutor in technical writing or technical editing? STC Toronto is launching a tutoring service so anyone in the public, including students, needing to write documentation can hire expertise by the hour. The STC does not endorse or recommend any of the tutors and is not responsible for the quality or the rate-tutors will make individual arrangements with their clients. STC members can sign up for a free listing as a mentor; non-members can sign up for $25 for the remainder of 2005. For more information and a complete listing of our current tutors, visit our new Tutors page. Important Reminder to Renewing STC Members Don’t forget, the STC has new membership categories for 2005 - when you get your renewal notice, be sure to select the Classic, E-Membership, or Student option, and select the Toronto Chapter as your chapter affiliation. This will ensure that you continue to have access to services that are only available to STC Toronto members.
Front Runner Publishing Solutions Inc. continue to be a valued supporter of the STC Toronto chapter. They are offering a number of courses by software and publishing experts which could be of interest to members ... see their site for more details and contact information. And don't miss Joyce Aldrich's article on Microsoft and endangered species in this month's newsletter. |
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