I read an interesting article in a List Apart that Gives tips on reducing business, stress, and work overload by reducing your week to a 4 day week. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fourdayweek. I was also reading the STC Atlanta president’s blog, which is interesting, and found she had a similar link to an article on reducing information overload and [...]
For those of you who missed the administrative council planning meeting (which took place last Saturday, June 24), Kelly Shrank — the chapter secretary — has taken some excellent notes. See the following link to read these notes: Admin Council Minutes. If you have comments or suggestions about the meeting, use the Comment feature below [...]
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If you go to the monthly meetings, you probably have seen me. But there are 180 members in this chapter, and no more than 30 attend the meetings regularly. This means many of you will be drawing a big question mark about who I am.
Dear Suncoast members:
I am both sad and excited to announce that I have joined the faculty at the University of Central Arkansas. I will be so sad to leave all of you!
Dear Suncoast members:
I am pleased to announce our July 6 speaker—he is one of our favorites–Dalton Hooper from Disney. He is going to speak about leadership. Mark Hanigan attended this talk at the international conference in Las Vegas and says that it is one of Dalton’s all-time best.
Dear Suncoast members:
The administrative council would like to invite you to our yearly planning meeting to be held this Saturday, June 24th, at 10:00 am.
At conference, I attended an indexing progression. The presenter (Lucie Haskins lucieH@att.net and http://www.luciehaskins.com) gave us a list of useful websites for indexing utilities. Here they are:
Posted in behalf of Regina Morrisey
Hello,
At the May Suncoast meeting, a member mentioned a group that meets at TechData monthly to discuss content management(members of AIIM.org). I found nothing about it on the AIIM site. Is it possible the comment was added to the meeting minutes? I’d like to follow-up with the man who [...]
It’s time, folks, that I learn to relax with this whole FTCC production thing. And I found out at last Saturday’s meeting that one of the big ways to do this was to learn more about how things like ‘rules’ are defined. In other words, it’s the basic ground rule that I knew but forgot [...]
Several of us met today to discuss the Florida Technical Communications Competition (FTCC). Becky Siebentheler, James Johnson, Mark Hanigan, and I met at 8:30 a.m. at Panera’s in the Clearwater Mall area and talked about a host of ideas, issues, and strategies surrounding the FTCC competition.
“Content Management: How to Engage your Team”
Michael Pleasant, Charlotte Robidoux
Our presenter, Charlotte Robidoux, manager of learning products at Hewlett-Packard in Marlboro, Massachusetts, has over 15 years of experience in technical communication. And, she oversees the production of end-user storage documentation for projects at various HP locations in North America.