Recent Events
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...
Victoria Tech Comm Café: November 7 recap
Fire, Write the Docs, and Robots From across the room, the glinting, glossy, rock gas fireplace drew me in. I joined several fellow technical writers for a lovely chat about Write the Docs and robots. Write the Docs is a free online community with excellent...
Vancouver-Area Tech Comm Café: Nov. 13 recap; next meeting Jan. 16, 2019
The November 13 Tech Comm Café met at the Cactus Club Café on Kingsway in Burnaby. The change from our usual downtown coffee shop brought in new people from across the Lower Mainland so we had lots to talk about over dinner. As usual, we started with job-hunting and...
Online Tech Comm Café recap: Oct. 17, 2018
On Wednesday 17 October, a group of technical writers dialed in to share industry perspectives at a virtual Tech Comm Café. The join.me software worked well, with the invitation link and agenda arriving efficiently an hour before the event. A simple click brought us...
Event report: Structured content webinar
On September 20, 2018 Nenad Furtula presented an overview of the principles and value of structured content. Nenad, a partner and VP Sales and Marketing at Bluestream Database Software, has been working with Extensible Markup Language (XML) for over 15 years....
Victoria Tech Comm Café: September 19 recap; next meeting November 7
There were, once again, many new faces at the September Victoria Tech Comm Café on a lovely rooftop patio in downtown Victoria. Organizing through a Meetup group has gotten the word out about STC Canada West Coast and made life easier for our organizers. With passion...
Vancouver-Area Tech Comm Café: September 12 recap; next meeting online October 17
New and longtime technical writers met for the September Tech Comm Café at the Wicklow Pub. Attendees enjoyed the quiet and privacy of the new venue, as well as its food and drinks menu. The relaxed and convivial conversation touched upon the beauty of the sunset, the...
Vancouver-Area Tech Comm Café: August 8 recap; next meeting September 12
Our August meeting included longtime and new technical writers and people exploring the field as part of their career transition. The group enjoyed a lively and wide-ranging discussion. Call for volunteer writers: The meeting opened with a call for volunteers to...
Vancouver-area Tech Comm Café: July 11 recap; next meeting August 8, 2018
This month we welcomed a smaller group for coffee and chat. Absentees were, presumably, either lounging on local beaches or holidaying in distant lands. However, the suggestion to skip the August meeting because of anticipated low attendance was met with horrified...
Aug 15, 2018 — 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...
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