Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted May 15th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
Helpless Doorknobs & Other Dramatic Considerations
Written by the Playwrights of the QWF Round Table
Atwater Library Auditorium
Thursday, May 20th
7:30 p.m. Admission free.
Doors open at 7:15 p.m.
Quebec Writers Federation
qwf.org
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted May 10th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
The American Medical Writer’s Association (AMWA) invites you to Voice of Experience, our next exciting networking meeting on Thursday, May 13th at 7:00 pm.
Members and non-members are both welcome to this roundtable discussion with a panel of experienced freelance medical writers to help new or aspiring writers, or for freelancers who could use a little mentoring to get on track. We will be sharing our tips and best practices to help you reach your goals to become a successful freelance medical writer. Feel free to invite your friends and colleagues who may be interested. Of course employers looking for freelancers or employees are always welcome!
Some of the topics we will discuss:
Panel composed of: Bruce Wilson, Lara Holmes, Peter MacMillan, and Crystal Kaczkowski
Please RSVP to medicalwriter [at] videotron [dot] ca by 12 pm on Tuesday, May 11th so we know how many chairs to tell the restaurant to set up, but note that you will not necessarily receive a confirmation reply.
We were at this restaurant a few years back and it has its own private room upstairs so will be more conducive for discussion that our last few meetings.
Le Caveau Szechwan
6000, ave. de Monkland
N.D.G.
Montreal, H4A 1G8
Tél. 514.488.2818
(Ask for AMWA reservation)
Crystal Kaczkowski
Freelance Medical Writer/Copywriter
514-585-3077
medicalwriter [at] videotron [dot] ca
www.medwrite.ca
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted April 27th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
With the recent launch of Creative Suite 5, Adobe is offering free training to orient users with the new features in CS5.
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted April 27th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
STC-Montreal members can take advantage of discounted rates for workshops at the Editors Association of Canada 2010 national conference: Editing Content and Culture.
The EAC national conference is three days of lectures and workshops from May 28 through May 30, 2010 at the Grande Bibliothèque in downtown Montreal. You can learn valuable stylistic skills and network with other writers, editors, and translators. The EAC is offering discounts on all pre-conference workshops (English and French) held on Friday, May 28, 2010.
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted March 31st, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
Haiku Creativity with Emiko
Offered by the Quebec Writers’ Federation in partnership with Haiku Canada and the McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement
When: Saturday, May 22, 1:00 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.
Where: Institute for Learning in Retirement 855 Sherbrooke Street West, 10th floor Montreal, Quebec Workshop
Leader: Emiko Miyashita
In this three-hour workshop with Japanese master poet Emiko Miyashita, you will learn about the world’s shortest and most popular poem form while sipping green tea and enjoying traditional Japanese treats. Miyashita, who writes in both Japanese and English, will give a brief introduction on the origins and fundamentals of the form, then guide you in writing your own haiku. This is not just a workshop for poets. Discover how this three-line, Zen-inspired poem can help you as a writer sharpen your focus, generate new and surprising connections, and teach you that when it comes to words, less is definitely more.
Emiko Miyashita was born in Fukushima, Japan in 1954. A graduate of Doshisha University in Kyoto, she began writing haiku seriously in 1993. She is currently a dojin, a leading member of Ten’i (??), Providence, haiku group lead by Dr. Akito Arima, and also a dojin of Shin (?), Morning Sun, haiku group lead by Dr. Akira O-mine. Since 1997, she has travelled frequently to haiku conferences in Canada, the U.K, the U.S. and India. She is an award winning translator of 10 books and has published two collections of her own haiku. She lives in Kawasaki, Japan.
Space in this workshop is limited to 35 participants.
Workshop fee: $35, which includes green tea and sweets.
For more information, or to register: 514-933-0878 or info [at] qwf [dot] org
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted March 15th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
ISC/SCI Conference and Annual General Meeting
May 26–27, 2010 – Dawson College, Montreal
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted March 15th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
PWAC Quebec (pwacquebec.wordpress.com) has lots of great social and professional development events in the works, all of which are free for members and either free or very affordable for non-members.
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted February 18th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
Join us at the STC Toronto’s Management Day on February 26 to learn three ways to work and communicate more effectively.
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted February 13th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
The following are a series of workshops presented by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Click the titles for more information about each workshop and workshop leader.
(Workshop fee: $170, $150 for QWF Members)
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted February 10th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
Maya Assouad, marketing manager for Véhicule Press, will discuss the benefits of marketing on the web at the next event hosted by the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec.
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted February 7th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
For the first time, we will be broadcasting the Israeli FrameMaker User Group meeting (#27), for the benefit of members who are unable to attend in person, and in order to open the event to other users world-wide.
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted January 26th, 2010
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
The American Medical Writers Association invites you to an open roundtable discussion – Professional Uses of Social Media (6:30-8:30 pm, Thursday, January 28, Stash Café, Old Montreal)
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted December 15th, 2009
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
Microtype’s Shlmo Perets is presenting a series of free FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers 1-hour webinars early in the new year. All webinars start at 10am PST/PDT:
For webinar description or to register, please visit http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF.html#TSwebinars
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted November 17th, 2009
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
“Graphics & Video in PDFs” — 1-hour webinar (free)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Starting 1pm EST
Brief demonstration and discussion of graphics and video in PDFs and related aspects: livening up static documentation (software/hardware) and engaging readers through interactive graphics, displaying information on demand (popups/rollovers/layers), integrating multimedia (such as video simulations and demonstrations of software processes and functions) & interactive 3D.
Note: this presentation focuses on PDFs and Acrobat, and is not specific to any authoring tool
Register at https://student.gototraining.com/4b34y/register/5808052943743757771
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted November 17th, 2009
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
Tuesday November 17
Lion d’Or: 1676 Rue Ontario Est, Papineau metro
Don’t miss English Montreal’s biggest literary party of the year! Witness the unveiling of this year’s QWF Award winners in the Fiction, Poetry, Translation, Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Non-Fiction, and First Book categories, as well as the QWF Community Award, the Quebec Writing Competition, and this year’s carte blanche Quebec prize!
Reception, 7-8pm: Music by Riverside Blues
8pm: Prize-giving, hosted by Stanley Péan
Tickets are $15 ($10 for full-time students), and are available at Argo, Babar en ville, Bibliophile, Clio, Paragraphe, and The Word bookstores as well as the QWF office.
2009 QWF Awards short list: qwf.org/awards/
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted October 13th, 2009
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
Effectively managing a technical communication group involves a unique set of skills, such as: the ability to clearly communicate expectations for a project, effectively evaluate performance, develop and communicate a strategic vision for your group, make a business case for proposed projects, and sell the services of your group. STC offers a special certificate program that confirms what you may already be doing and helps you develop the necessary skills.
Noted speaker Saul Carliner promises: “The six sessions for this certificate program present a combination of discovery exercises, which leverage your existing knowledge; formal presentations, which describe the ‘must knows’; and action planning segments, which give you a chance to consider how you’ll apply what you learned back on the job.
“This course was designed specifically for technical communicators who have management responsibilities. It is anticipated that these learners will come from small- and medium-sized organizations, which are less likely to have formal management training than large organizations. The course content will develop the core skills needed for one of the key positions that technical communicators assume—and does so in a way that’s unique to technical communicators (not other professions).”
Comments from Previous Attendees:
“Probably the most immediately relevant and accessible (in terms of information) sessions I’ve attended in years.”
“This [course] provided the in-depth focus that I was looking for. Saul Carliner is an informative and effective instructor who is generous in the material he shares.”
Technical Communication Manager Certificate
27 October–1 December
10:30 AM–Noon EDT/EST (GMT-4/GMT-5)
http://www.stc.org/edu/technical-communication-manager-certificate.asp
REGISTER NOW
http://www.stc.org/edu/technical-communication-manager-certificate-courses.asp
To obtain the certificate, participants must log in for each of the six scheduled sessions. A discount is available for additional attendees from
the same company. For these special prices, please contact Lloyd Tucker.
$595 member / $995 nonmember
Student: $295 member / nonmember $995
Individual Sessions (without certificate):
$149 member / $259 nonmember
Student: $79 member / $259 nonmember
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted October 1st, 2009
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
The Vermont Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication is pleased to present Rich Maggiani and his presentation: Cloud Computing and Communication on Wednesday, October 14, 2009.
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted September 28th, 2009
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
“God is in the details,” the old saying goes, though any editor who has agonized endlessly over a comma or a hyphen might argue that a far darker entity lurks there.
This seminar takes an unsurprisingly detailed look at punctuation and mechanics, including commas (what’s right, what’s wrong, what’s optional), semicolons, colons, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes, hyphens, italics, and the ever-perplexing bullet points. We’ll discuss up-to-date rules and guidelines, examine how punctuation and mechanics affect meaning (for instance, the relationship between commas and modifiers), and note some of the most useful style guides available. There will be practice exercises throughout the day, and you’re encouraged to bring along troublesome editing samples for discussion.
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted September 1st, 2009
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
Date: September 24, 2009
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Place: Hotel Ruby Foo’s
7655 Decarie Boulevard
Montreal (Metro Namur)
Instructor: Christine Hastie
Cost:
$160 for members
$220 for non-members
There are no early bird discounts or student rates.
What you’ll learn
Web text should be concise, scannable, and written using simple language. Hundreds of studies have confirmed this. But your client’s draft is a long report and doesn’t look like a Web page at all. Or perhaps a client expects you to develop Web pages from a variety of materials. This presentation will help you identify your client’s needs so you can offer Web-appropriate text. We’ll share ideas on making fewer words do more as they become a vibrant source of energy that attracts readers and carries them through the information.
We’ll cover
Note: This workshop can be helpful for editors looking to enhance their structural editing skills.
Your participation
Please submit your Web text problems and samples to the coordinator, Claire Sutton suttonc1 [at] yahoo [dot] ca especially if they can be shared with all participants. Handouts and exercises in Word format will be emailed in advance. Bring a laptop, arrange to share one, or use the paper copy supplied. (N.B. Laptop not required for this seminar.)
About the presenter
After living in a Cree and Métis community for several years, Christine Hastie established herself as a communications healer in Montréal in 1993. She freelanced for a number of years—creating her first Web page and a touch-screen interface in 1997—and joined the federal public service in 2002. Now working at Ste. Anne’s Hospital in Communications with Veterans Affairs Canada, she develops tools for a community of practice in mental health. Specializing in rewriting, she contributed an article to La révision professionnelle : processus, stratégies et pratiques (2007), edited by Jocelyne Bisaillon. Christine has a Master’s degree in English literature from the University of Western Ontario.
Non-Ars Communica Event | Posted August 27th, 2009
Note: This event is not sponsored by STC-Montreal. Please contact the event organizers for more details.
Note: The date and location of this event has changed. See the new details below.
You are cordially invited to “Tequila Mockingbird”: A Literary Salon and Auction of Curiosities to benefit the Quebec Writers’ Federation
Break out those dashing James Bond blazers and Zelda Fitzgerald party dresses and sample our cocktail du soir, the “Tequila Mockingbird!”
Our gregarious and charming salonnière, Madame À Bientôt will introduce newcomers & gently pluck wallflowers out of their seats and into the flow of conversation.
Everyone will get a short list of “Topics & Ideas You Might Be Inclined to Discuss (at Length)” at the beginning of the evening in order to stimulate conversation and to prevent that bane of parties everywhere – the awkward silence.
Round out the evening by bidding at our quirky Auction of Literary Curiosities! Items up for bid include:
The host for the auction will be the inimitable Dave McGimpsey, author of Certifiable and Sitcom.
Monday, October 5th, 2009, 7 p.m.
The Atwater Library’s top floor ballroom (otherwise known as “The Auditorium”)
Mainline Theatre
3997 St. Laurent Blvd. (just south of Duluth)
$12 admission includes one free drink.
$10 minimum bid on all auction items.
Reservations: 514-933-0878 or admin [at] qwf [dot] org.
Only cheques and cash will be accepted.
All proceeds from the evening go towards QWF programs.
Fancy attire, while not required, is greatly desired.
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