STC Montreal

Actually, not quite. Like a superhero returning more powerfully from a brush with the end, STC-Montreal will be transformed.

Harold Quesnel reports on Manny Gordon’s “Technical Writing 101″ workshop, and says it was an educational and exciting experience.

The Technical Writing 101 workshop was a success thanks to teamwork on part of our volunteers, says Manuel Gordon. Will you be the one to help our team with their next success?

Setting out as a freelancer can be fraught with financial uncertainty. Financial expert Robert MacIsaac gave us the straight dope about how to plan a freelance career. Download the podcast.

Robert MacIsaac illustrated with a sobering barrage of practical advice that there’s a lot to consider before you throw off the shackles of the 9-to-5 job and strike out on your own as a freelancer. Read the full review.

Members of STC-Montreal’s volunteer committee held a teleconference to discuss future plans for STC-Montreal’s educations events. The entire conversation has been podcasted.

Being able to package a lot of information into a compact and easily-absorbed visual is a particularly valuable skill. But since tech writers are primarily word people, not graphic artists, learning how to conceptualize effective infographics is a bit like learning to speak a new language.

Andy Gural delivered a lively presentation about how technical writers can learn to make use of infographics.

STC recently issued the 2009-2010 Salary Database, and the web site Writers UA has published some of the salient details. Find out how much you’d earn in various US states.

Some pics from our gathering at Le Cabaret on September 27, 2011. Thanks everyone for coming!

Long manuals are outdated, ineffective ways to teach people software. The quick reference guide, with strong visuals and a magazine-like layout, is something that end-users, project managers, and just about everyone absolutely loves.

Mobile tech has its share of confusing new jargon and concepts. Getting them wrong may be harmless … or it might lead to buying the wrong tool, hiring the wrong person, or going off in the wrong strategic direction.

This webinar walks you through how to prepare software, your system, and yourself to give the best possible demonstration for your audience. Join STC on Tuesday, 17 January, for The Art of the Demo.

Wish you had more time to deeply understand customer reasoning? Join Indi Young and STC for the live Web seminar on 12 January 2011.

Every few years, new computer interaction paradigms are introduced. This webinar on December 14, 2011 will show how socio-technical design looks at the exchange of information within mediated communication networks, and sets the groundwork for group interaction within these environments.

Organizing help content so that users can both find and learn information often requires technical writers to break out of the traditional topic-based folders and move toward faceted navigation, search engine optimization, interface text, level-based help, and other methods for organizing content. Webinar Thursday, 1 December.

The field of business process management, or business process modeling, is becoming more prevalent. Join Jackie Damrau for Technical Communicator in a BPM World on Wednesday, 30 November for a session that shares the experience of a technical communicator’s transition to a business process analyst.

In this exclusive workshop, David Gutnick will talk about what makes a good documentary idea – and how he goes from that initial idea to collecting the material, to the writing, recording and mixing that produces the final documentary that we hear on the radio or podcast.