http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:05:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Technical Communicator's Guide to Project Management Join us on September 9, 2008, to hear Brenda Huettner, STC-Southern Arizona's Communications chair and principal and owner of her own company, P-N Designs, Inc. in Tucson Arizona, speak about project management. Whether we have the title or not, we all manage projects - from ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/80 The 2008 Southwest Regional PAO Competitions are underway! The Call for Entries for this year's local competitions has been issued. Entries are being solicited for all three competitions: Publications, Art, and Online. The entry forms, submittal instructions, and detailed information on this year's competitions are now available on our website. These competitions are ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/76 We had such a grand time at the July networking dinner, we decided to do it again! Join us for more fun on Tuesday, August 12, 2008. Our second summer dinner and networking meeting will take place at the Old Spaghetti Factory in central Phoenix. We will have another fixed price ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/61 Tuesday, July 8, 2008, dinner and networking at the Half Moon Sports Grill. Join us for a relaxing evening of old friends and new acquaintances. Find out who is doing what this summer and share a few stories of your own. We'd love to see you there! Dinner: your choice of ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/57 Schaller Anderson - Learning & Development Office 4645 E Cotton Center Blvd. Building 2, Suite 155 Phoenix AZ 85040 NOTE: This is a secured building and requires key-card access. Someone should be at the door to let you in. If not, please call Dana Osborne’s cell at ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/53 June 2008 Rough Draft (PDF) is now available. Archived editions of Rough Draft can be found on our Newsletters page. a2a_linkname="The June 2008 Rough Draft Now Available";a2a_linkurl="http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/52"; http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/52 A Humorous Look at the 2008 Conference Join us on June 10, 2008, to enjoy perspectives of this year's conference from an experienced conference goer and a newbie. Tom Barnett has attended conferences every year for "quite a few" years during his tenure with STC. Karen Zorn has never attended one ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/51 STC Phoenix will conduct electronic voting for the 2008-2009 Administrative Council from May 1-7, 2008. All member of record as of April 29, 2008 will receive an electronic ballot via e-mail. For more information, contact Dana Osborne, current chapter president, at president@stc-phoenix.com. Candidate Bios President Karen Zorn - Since joining the STC Phoenix ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/50 Join us for an interesting and educational evening as Tom Johnson presents Combining Social Media with Help Authoring. The Web landscape has changed considerably in the last several years. Users are no longer passive consumers of information (Web 1.0), but instead are active contributors of content (Web 2.0). They expect to ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/48 March 2008 Rough Draft (PDF) is now available. Archived editions of Rough Draft can be found on our Newsletters page. a2a_linkname="The March 2008 Rough Draft Now Available";a2a_linkurl="http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/41"; http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/41 Leveraging Software Tools To Help You Ensure Content Quality Scott will discuss the weaknesses in our current approaches to managing content and content creators and make the case for: The adoption of software tools that can drastically outperform human counterparts. The adoption of controlled vocabularies to help make content less ambiguous and to ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/38 Our chapter survey helps us understand the needs of our members so that we can provide useful programming. Please take a moment to take our survey: Click Here to take survey a2a_linkname="Our Chapter Survey is Now Live!";a2a_linkurl="http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/39"; http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/39 Membership News The Society for Technical Communication (STC) is a professional association that advances the arts and sciences of technical communication. Its 14,000+ members include technical writers, editors, graphic designers, multimedia artists, Web and intranet page information designers, translators and others whose work involves making technical information understandable and available to ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/37 From mid-November 2007 to mid-January 2008, our chapter sponsored a campaign to encourage potential members to join and continuing members to renew their memberships. Those who did so had their names entered into a drawing for $50 dollar gift certificates. Out of 187 chapter members, 80 met the January deadline. ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/36 Next year’s science fair will be quite different from years past. It will be the Arizona Science Fair (AzSEF), and it will combine the Central Arizona Science Fair, Northern Arizona Science Fair, and the Arizona-American Indian Science and Engineering Fair into one large event – up to 1,000 entries are ... http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/32 The December 2007 of the Rough Draft is available for download. Click here to download the PDF or visit the Newsletter page to download the current and previous editions. a2a_linkname="The December 2007 edition of the Rough Draft is available";a2a_linkurl="http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/28"; http://www.stc-phoenix.com/wp/archives/28