by Jason Wu | Mar 27, 2020 | Recent Events, Tech Comm Café
March’s Tech Comm Café meeting took place online due to COVID-19 concerns. Attendees practiced their social distancing skills, joining in from personal computers and smartphones. The meeting kicked off with a round of self-introductions, revealing both new and...
by Heather Sommerville | Feb 28, 2020 | Recent Events, Tech Comm Café
The Tech Comm Café meeting on February 19 provided an opportunity to catch up after the December hiatus and the cancellation of the January meeting because of a rare and traffic-snarling snowstorm. Several people who attended were making the transition to technical...
by Heather Sommerville | Jan 31, 2020 | Announcements, Career, Chapter, Recent Events
The STC Canada West Coast chapter is pleased to announce that the chapter has awarded STC student memberships to six technical writing students for the 2020 membership year. Please join us in congratulating and welcoming all of the winners! Cheryle Brock, Vancouver...
by Tanya Vasto | Dec 1, 2019 | Recent Events, Tech Comm Café
For our November meeting, we met at Ebisu restaurant on the corner of Ash Street and West Broadway, where we enjoyed great company and Japanese fare. A quaint restaurant with friendly staff and great food. This meeting was attended by writers from different...
by Joel Basart | Nov 16, 2019 | Career, Recent Events, Techniques
On November 6, 2019, Kit Brown-Hoekstra presented a webinar on productivity for technical writers. She provided dozens of useful tips from her own experiences as a busy and productive person. Kit is an author, trainer, consultant, STC Fellow, a Past President of the...
by Heather Sommerville | Oct 30, 2019 | Announcements, Chapter, Recent Events, Tech Comm Café
The Oct. 16 meeting was a celebration of the Canada West Coast chapter’s 40th anniversary, complete with commemorative swag for those who attended. The group represented almost every decade of the chapter’s life: people who had joined STC in the 1980s, 1990s, and the...