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Great News! We’re Dead!
Posted February 2nd, 2012
Actually, not quite. Like a superhero returning more powerfully from a brush with the end, STC-Montreal will be transformed.
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Nearly Twenty Participate in Manuel Gordon’s Tech Writing Workshop
Posted January 13th, 2012
Harold Quesnel reports on Manny Gordon’s “Technical Writing 101″ workshop, and says it was an educational and exciting experience.
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It Takes a Village to Organize a Workshop
Posted December 11th, 2011
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?
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Money Matters with Robert MacIsaac
Posted December 8th, 2011
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.
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Money Matters for Freelancers: A Recap
Posted December 7th, 2011
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.
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Roundtable Discussion on Event Planning
Posted November 12th, 2011
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.
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Infographics Presentation: A Recap
Posted November 11th, 2011
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.
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Infographics with Andy Gural
Posted November 11th, 2011
Andy Gural delivered a lively presentation about how technical writers can learn to make use of infographics.
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STC Salary Survey
Posted October 19th, 2011
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.
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Photos from the September Song Event
Posted October 10th, 2011
Some pics from our gathering at Le Cabaret on September 27, 2011. Thanks everyone for coming!
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Non-STC activities for writers
STC Webinar: Designing Quick Reference Guides
Posted January 24th, 2012
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.
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STC Webinar: Introduction to the Mobile Ecology
Posted January 22nd, 2012
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.
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STC Webinar: The Art of the Demo
Posted January 13th, 2012
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.
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STC Webinar: Mental Model Diagrams
Posted January 9th, 2012
Wish you had more time to deeply understand customer reasoning? Join Indi Young and STC for the live Web seminar on 12 January 2011.
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STC Webinar: Socio-Technical Design – The Future of the Online Community
Posted December 13th, 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.
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STC Webinar: Organizing Help Content—Breaking Out of Topic-Based Hierarchies
Posted November 29th, 2011
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.
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STC Webinar: Technical Communicator in a BPM World
Posted November 29th, 2011
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.
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PWAC Event: Radio Documentaries – From Idea to Airwaves
Posted November 22nd, 2011
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.
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