From the STC:
The “Call” you’ve been waiting for is here!
The Call for Proposals for the 2007 Technical Communication Summit — STC’s 54th Annual Conference — is online at www.stc.org/cfp.
Ever wonder where all the chapter members live? Here are the top 10 locations.
Tampa — 39 members
St. Petersburg — 13 members
Clearwater — 8 members
Palm Harbor — 7 members
Sarasota — 6 members
Valrico — 6 members
Dunedin — 5 members
Fort Meyers — 4 members
Seminole — 3 members
Seffner — 2 members
This is a little 20-lesson guide manual for happiness, as the writer says. It’s by Ben Mathis Lilley from New York Magazine. The strategies are “adapted from the scientific research and applied to New York living.”
Mark Hanigan has been actively planning the Erasing Borders conference for 2008. To me it always seems so far in the future, but Mark says that a lot of planning is involved in pulling off a good conference. I invite you to read the draft document he has prepared and submitted — it gives a [...]
The STC has a way to configure password-restricted areas of chapter websites. Apparently all you have to do is drop some code into your site that they have already prepared, and voila, you have password restriction. Members plug in their STC member ID and passwords, the info is passed to the STC database, and based [...]
Beth Long has produced some initial logos for the FTCC competition. She is not only working on graphics, but also slogan and promotional ideas.
We’re starting to keep better track of new members and other visitors that show up at the monthly meetings. Joan Baptist and Kathy Robbins have started a new column on the sign-in sheet to indicate whether the meeting is a first-time meeting for the people who show up. We had two new individuals last time, [...]
If you’re interested in content management, here’s a free event worthy
of an hour of your time. Mark your calendar. Register today.
I have been asked by a couple of people (Mark Hanigan and Pam Treme) to share or at least explain what my vision/plans are for the STC Suncoast chapter. This has gotten me thinking about larger issues and what I hope to accomplish. We do have in our sights the chapter of excellence award, but [...]
For all those working on the FTCC (Florida Technical Communications Competition), I had a couple of thoughts.
It seems we lost our publicity committee people (if I am wrong, please speak up!). I am not necessarily asking for people to committ to a committee, just to volunteer to help publicize STC-Suncoast events, meetings, and resources as needed. If you are interested in helping publicize STC-related events (we’ll explain what needs to be [...]
As usual, Dalton Hooper gave a really interesting presentation. The title was, “It’s Not Leadership If No One Is Following.” He began with the progression of leadership, saying that we began with bosses, then progressed to supervisors, managers, coaches, and finally … leaders. See the slide below.