Events
Jan. 11 – Chapter Council Meeting
About This Meeting Chapter council meetings are held on the second Saturday of the month. The agenda includes committee and executive business, as well as volunteer and leadership training. Who Should Attend? All chapter members and volunteers, including non-member volunteers, are welcome to attend. This is a great way to get to know and network…
Dec. 3 – Holiday Social Night
Please Join Us for a Holiday Social Night Come and celebrate the season with us, your friends and associates, fellow chapter members and volunteers! Please feel free to bring your significant other, friends who understand that technical writers really can be fun to hang out with, and anyone else who might be interested in getting to…
Nov. 19 – Networking Made Easy
Description This is our second annual professional development night on networking. When it comes to job hunting and career management, networking can be a big challenge for many tech comm professionals. So this year, we’re getting back to the basics and focusing on strategies for making networking easier. The event will be led by three panelists who…
Nov. 9 – Chapter Council Meeting
About This Meeting Chapter council meetings are held on the second Saturday of the month. The agenda includes committee and executive business, as well as volunteer and leadership training. Who Should Attend? All chapter members and volunteers, including non-member volunteers, are welcome to attend. This is a great way to get to know and network…
Oct. 30 – WordPress and Trello Training (Oct. 30)
We will be holding a one-hour training session on WordPress and Trello for all interested members and volunteers. WordPress Learn how to post articles and events on the website. Find out where to upload images and how to set them as featured images for posts. Learn where to find static pages and how to update…
Chapter Council Meeting (Oct. 19)
About This Meeting Chapter council meetings are held on the second Saturday of the month. The agenda includes committee and executive business, as well as volunteer and leadership training. Who Should Attend? All chapter members and volunteers, including non-member volunteers, are welcome to attend. Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013 General Business: 10:00 am PDT Executive Voting: 11:00 pm…
Instructional Design and Learning SIG Webinar
Upcoming Webinar 09/18/13 Becoming an eLearning Hero Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7153914484344805888 A common question a course creator asks is, “How can I make my eLearning more interactive?” It is a great question and the answer may not be as far away as you think. In this webinar, you will learn simple ways to analyze content and mold…
Celebrate International Plain Language Day (Oct. 13)
October 13, 2013, is a Sunday and follows on the heels of PLAIN2013, the 20th Anniversary conference of the Plain Language Association InterNational, which is being held in Vancouver, BC on October 10-13. Special Rate for STC Members expires August 31! Click the image to see a full-size version. Please join Conference attendees and presenters…
Content as Conversation with Purposes and Personas with Ginny Redish (Oct. 8)
Description One of the most important contributions of technical writing has been the realization that everything we write is part of a conversation between author and reader. And as we have moved from paper to screen, from large screen to small, from static writing to dynamic social-media exchanges, conversation has become even more important as…
Touch, Voice, and Gestures in UA with Joe Welinske (Sep. 17)
Description New ways of interacting with software mean rethinking how we develop our associated user assistance. This session, “Touch, Voice, and Gestures: How to Craft Your User Assistance to Accommodate a Variety of Interaction Types,” is a guide for appropriate language choices to use for emerging interaction types like touch, voice, and hand gestures. Topics…