by Serena Beck | Oct 10, 2016 | Announcements, Recent Events, Tech Comm Café
On Monday, October 3, 2016, eight technical writers braved the rain to eat tacos, debate style guides, review award-winning technical writing, and contemplate other interesting topics. The STC Canada West Coast chapter President, Stephen Gauer, brought award-winning...
by Amy Takeda | Oct 7, 2016 | Recent Events
On Saturday, October 15, 2016, STCCWC will welcome Cindy Oxenbury to present on privacy issues and protection. This presentation will surely change your mind when it comes to understanding privacy, while providing information on how to make intelligent decisions when...
by Stephen Gauer | Oct 7, 2016 | Tools
Flare gives you several basic tools for grouping links to related topics. The most time-consuming method is manual — you create a Related Topics list of hyperlinks at the bottom of each topic page. To do this, type the heading, “Related topics”, then type each topic...
by Stephen Gauer | Oct 1, 2016 | Announcements, Recent Events
In the digital age how private are your parts? This is the provocative question addressed by privacy expert Cindy Oxenbury at our October 15th speaker’s event. Privacy issues are in the news every day, from police using privacy legislation to avoid releasing...
by Amy Takeda | Sep 27, 2016 | Recent Events
STC Canada Westcoast’s 2016-2017 Kick-off Presentation was hosted by Karen Rempel on September 10, 2016. This informative presentation featured winners from the video entry category of this year’s STC International Summit Awards. Karen explained the structure...
by Heather Sommerville | Sep 19, 2016 | Announcements, Recent Events, Tech Comm Café
People who attended the Tech Comm Café on September 14 were in for a surprise. The restaurant where we’ve met regularly for over two years has closed its doors and been replaced by a construction site, resulting in some confused faces in the parking lot! However, we...
by Amy Takeda | Sep 14, 2016 | Spotlights
In September’s Spotlight, we feature Mark Matsuno. Mark was the treasurer of STC Canada West Coast until June 2016 and had a pivotal role in organizing the chapter’s finances. He discusses his transition from translation to technical writing, and offers advice for new...
by Stephen Gauer | Sep 12, 2016 | Techniques
There’s an interesting tension in technical writing between knowing and not knowing. Tom Johnson, who blogs at www.idratherbewriting.com, tackled this question in an article on learner perspective. This is my take on the question of how much tech writers need to know...
by Susan Nishi | Sep 10, 2016 | Announcements
The STC Canada West Coast chapter is pleased to announce that Gabriel Forbes, a senior technical writer, will be promoting STC activities on Vancouver Island and the nearby islands as the new Vancouver Island Coordinator. Gabriel, currently with Reliable Controls in...
by Stephen Gauer | Sep 7, 2016 | Announcements, Recent Events
About This Collaboration Meeting This is an all-hands meeting to discuss upcoming events, welcome all volunteers, and review the work that needs to be done to keep our chapter moving forward in serving our community of writers. If you want to out what’s happening,...
