admin on August 9th, 2010

by Jen O Neill Last April, the eruption by the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull caused an ash cloud that affected 10 million people worldwide and 77% of European civil aviation airspace. Over 100,000 flights were cancelled during the eight days of the crisis. One organisation at the centre of this event was Brussels-based Eurocontrol who are [...]

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admin on April 23rd, 2010

by Karen Mardahl Wow! An STC event that is covered by the Huffington Post. Wow! STC France and STC Transalpine deserve a round of applause louder than exploding volcanos for putting together such an excellent event! I didn’t attend, but I can feel the waves of excitement pouring out of Paris. It seems everyone had [...]

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admin on March 29th, 2010

We have received an exciting announcement from our colleagues in TCeurope! The organisation representing national technical communication associations in Europe invites you to its Colloquium 2010. This year, to offer maximum benefit for technical communicators in Europe, the TCeurope Colloquium A new decade for technical communication: 2010 and beyond is scheduled to follow the STC’s [...]

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admin on December 8th, 2009

A rendezvous with content strategy in Paris in the springtime – it’s the stuff dreams are made of! (Well, for technical communicators, at least!) Mark 15-16 April 2010 on your calendars for the Content Strategy Forum 2010. It’s “where business analysis meets user experience and content development”. Will you be there, too? The program and [...]

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admin on July 28th, 2009

HCI fans might like a good excuse for a trip to the northern corner of our SIG world: Sweden. Uppsala, Sweden to be precise. That is where INTERACT 2009, the 12th IFIP conference on Human-Computer interaction (HCI), takes place from the 24th to the 28th of August. The conference theme is research and practice: The [...]

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Come to Cambridge the weekend of June 13 and 14 for a conference that addresses an important skill set for technical communicators: accessibility. This skill set may be just what you need to tackle an important market sector – your colleagues and customers with disabilities. This conference looks at issues specifically related to hearing and [...]

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Claudia Basso from TAC reminds us: The STC TransAlpine Chapter (TAC) is holding its annual conference – and 10th anniversary celebration in Vienna, 8-10 June 2009. Updated information about workshops, conference topics, speakers, directions, prices are now available. Do not miss the opportunity to join this memorable event which features world-known speakers, like Tom Johnson [...]

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Human Factors International announces their next workshop in London called From Batteries to Blogging: A user experience-based technology journey into today’s mobile phones. Lively, round-table discussions will focus on: High level technology Input hardware User experience Applications and websites The workshop will be moderated by Scott Weiss, CUA and Executive Director at HFI in London. [...]

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This week in London, E-Access Bulletin’s fifth annual conference and exhibition on access to the internet, IT, and other technologies by people with disabilities is taking place. April 23, to be exact. E-Access ’09: Technology For All is about access to all technologies by people with disabilities. As Dan Jellinek, Conference Chair, writes, If you [...]

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The 2009 STC Technical Summit in Atlanta, Georgia is less than 3 weeks away. You can still get the Early Bird Rates, and the conference hotel, the Hyatt Regency, has reduced their hotel rates. Why not register today? For planning your trip, read the conference accessibility information; it benefits everyone, not just those with special [...]

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