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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 Responsibility Game A Call to Redaction! Synagogue, Pond, & Ducks
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:
Single-Sourcing SIG Meeting on May 19: Bernard Aschwanden on Developing EDDs for Structured FrameMaker
Please join us on Thursday, May 19, as Bernard of Publishing Smarter walks us through the process for creating and using EDDs to enforce structure and presentation within FrameMaker 7.1. He will look at how XML is corporated into FrameMaker documents and give us a preview of his efforts to develop a working DITA model with EDDs. To attend, please send your RSVP before Wednesday May 18 to Rob Hanna or by telephone (416) 221-4113. Meeting starts at 7 pm - location to be determined.
Front Runner Publishing Solutions Inc. LiveCycle Designer Contest Update It’s not too late to get started on designing that winning form in LiveCycle™ Designer! Anyone interested in entering may go to Front Runner’s website www.front-runner.com for contest details. Just to remind you, the contest ends on May 20th, 2005 at 5 pm. First prize is one copy of Adobe© Acrobat 7.0 Professional (which includes LiveCycle™ Designer). Second prize is one LiveCycle™ Designer public course, to be taken at Front-Runner within 6 months of winning. Good luck!
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. 2004 STC Competition Results Congratulations to Sue McCluskey of Up Inc. for taking the Best of Show awarded at this year's competition for her entry, What Language are we Speaking? Understanding the Day-to-Day Jargon of Designers & Printers. Sue's entry along with five others entered into the competition hosted by the Toronto and Southwestern Ontario chapters have been advanced to the international competition in Arlington, VA. A complete list of the 22 award-winning entries is now available as is an overview of the results. Special thanks to Vivian Viitala, Mona Albano, and Lori Shantz for organizing this years competition and to all of the judges without whom this competition would not be possible!
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 redaction in this month's newsletter. |
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