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 registration information [...]

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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 theme [...]

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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 and [...]

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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. He is well known for his [...]

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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 design your [...]

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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 needs. [...]

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admin on April 15th, 2009

Paul Roberts, Marketing Coordinator at The Localization Institute Inc. in Madison, Wisconsin, shares this conference news with us.
This year Localization World will be held in Berlin, Germany (8-10 June), and we have some new additions that we are very excited about. We usually offer only localization/translation tracks, but for the first time we are leveraging [...]

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kmardahl on March 23rd, 2009

As STC members know, the STC Technical Summit for 2009 takes place in Atlanta, Georgia May 3-6. We have several updates about that conference, and we begin with the most important news for some potential attendees.
Members Can Split Conference Payment
All STC members in good standing may choose to spread their registration payment by paying half [...]

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admin on January 31st, 2009

Obviously, we are quite excited about the STC Technical Summit 2009 in Atlanta May 3-6. It is the must-attend event of the year.
People on Twitter are already using the hashtag #stc09 to identify discussions about the Summit. We’ll have more about the Technical Summit in the days to come, but we have [...]

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