Recent Events
Tech Comm Café: March 18 recap; next meeting ONLINE April 15
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...
Vancouver-area Tech Comm Café: Feb. 19 recap; next meeting ONLINE March 18
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...
Students win free STC memberships for 2020
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...
Vancouver Tech Comm Cafe: November 20 recap; next meeting Feb. 19
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...
Event report: Productivity hacks for technical communicators
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...
Vancouver Tech Comm Café: Oct. 16 anniversary celebration; next meeting Nov. 20
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...
Victoria Tech Comm Café: 40th Anniversary Party in the Park Recap
On Saturday, Sept 28, 2019, 10 adults and 7 kids enjoyed a sunny, blustery, fall day in the park to celebrate the STC Canada West Coast’s 40th anniversary. We chased the sun around the park to ensure that we stayed warm while we ate our ice cream cake and drank our...
Vancouver-area Tech Comm Café: Sept. 18 recap; next meeting Oct. 16
This month we returned to the Japanese restaurant Ebisu on Broadway, where the tranquil ambience was interrupted only once, when a nearby table erupted in song upon receiving a flaming ball of deep-fried ice cream. Otherwise, we were left in peace to concentrate on...
Vancouver-area Tech Comm Café: Aug. 21 recap; next meeting Sept. 18
August’s Tech Comm Café featured a multi-faceted discussion of the technical writing industry on the minimalist, pillow-seat benches of a Japanese restaurant. Topics included software, new opportunities, API, career advice, networking, and more. Those immersed in the...
August 19, 2019 – Chapter Meeting
About This 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 find out what’s happening, have some...
Vancouver-area Tech Comm Café: July 17 recap; next meeting Aug. 21
July’s Tech Comm Café was enjoyed by a mix of veteran technical communicators, recent graduates, and one student currently plugging away to finish a certificate program so he can leave behind the shift work and midnight distress calls of the IT world. (We did warn him...
Event report: 2019 STC Summit Recap
The STC held its annual international Summit conference in Denver, Colorado on May 4-8. This year, the Summit marked its highest attendance in almost a decade, with more than 700 participants. Joel Basart, an STC member for over 20 years, and currently STC Canada West...
Vancouver-area Tech Comm Café: May 15 recap; next meeting July 17
May’s Tech Comm Café welcomed another interesting mix of people: one was not only new to the group, but new to Vancouver as well, and exactly half were looking for employment while the other half were currently working in the industry. The discussion covered a broad...
Vancouver-area Tech Comm Café: April 17 recap; next meeting May 15
April’s Tech Comm Café welcomed a mix of new faces and café veterans, raised many interesting conversation topics, and sparked a brainstorming session that might lead to new STC workshops. What an enjoyable, informative, and productive meeting! Our initial...
Victoria Tech Comm Café: March 27, 2019 recap; next meeting TBD
There I am tonight (not on time, but miraculously 20 minutes early reserving our table), when in walks our first meeting attendee. Heads turn in the upscale open dining concept of the Sherwood Cafe and Bar. Loomo is rolling behind our first attendee like an obedient...
Vancouver-area Tech Comm Café: March 13 recap; next meeting April 17
We met on the day that countries started grounding the Boeing 737 Max 8 planes. Pilots voiced their concerns, stating: “the flight manual was inadequate, and we are flying without sufficient training, amongst other issues.” This unfortunate tragedy was the basis of...
Event report: Infographics and beyond
On March 6, 2019, graphic designer Olga Krelin presented an excellent hour-long webinar titled “Infographics and beyond: visualizing data, processes, and abstract ideas while avoiding confusion.” Olga has many years of experience, including an Industrial Design...
Event report: Creating instructional videos
The STC Canada West Coast chapter held its first event of 2019, a sold-out workshop on creating instructional videos, at a meeting room at the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library on January 19. Joel Basart, facilitator of the workshop, tapped into his years...
Vancouver-area Tech Comm Café: Jan. 16 recap; next meeting March 13
We managed to find a quieter corner in a restaurant that’s known for its large echoing rooms and loud atmosphere as well as for its good food. We didn’t quite have to shout to be heard, but the group was large enough that each half of the table had its own separate...
Victoria Pierogifest Holiday Social: recap
STC Canada West Coast's first ever Victoria Pierogifest Holiday Social was an engaging evening with plenty of rambling, wide-ranging discussion and catching up. The beer was cold. The pierogis were hot. The company was engaging. The Sült Pierogi Bar was a cosy venue...
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