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The Technical Editing SIG is proud to recognize one of its members with the Distinguished SIG Service Award, or DSSA. Started in 2002, this DSSA recognizes exemplary dedication of a member to a SIG and its activities. Three basic criteria are considered in identifying nominees for the DSSA: length of SIG membership, consistency of service over time, and the variety of service.

STC's 2010 election opens 9 March 2010 and runs through 8 April 2010. All ballots must be received by noon EDT (GMT-4), on 8 April 2010. An email containing ballot access information and instructions for the 2010 STC Election is being sent to all members.

The election process is important to STC's future since these leaders will be guiding the organization. Thank you for doing your part to make STC a vibrant, growing organization.



See http://notebook.stc.org/2010-election/ for information about each candidate and the election process.

A resounding success, Bette Frick’s engaging webinar Marketing Bingo was the first TE SIG quarterly membership meeting of 2010. Frick, the Text Doctor®, presented 25 marketing strategies that ranged from passive to active techniques.

Hello Technical Editing SIG members,

There are two important items that require your attention before March 1:

UPDATE YOUR WEB SITE ACCOUNT
One benefit of SIG membership is full access to the TE SIG web site. To keep your web site account active in 2010, be sure that your web site account includes your STC membership number. We will use this number to verify your SIG membership.

The Society for Technical Communication invites all SIG members to participate in a project aimed at defining the broad outline of topics most relevant to the practice and teaching of technical communication. A charter document describing the project is linked on the home page of a wiki, http://stcbok.editme.com/Home, where you will also find information on how to volunteer to contribute to the project.

Society for Technical Communication (STC)
Philadelphia Metro Chapter
Annual Conference & Workshops

WHEN:
Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27

WHERE:
Giant Super Food Store Community Center
315 York Road, Willow Grove

Dear SIG Members,

The Technical Editing SIG for the STC hopes to "see" you in 2010, as a new or renewing member. Here is just a taste of what's available in 2010 for your $10 TE SIG membership fee:

• Free seminars that are tailored to technical editors, such as "The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market" and "Moving to Word 2007"
• Recordings of past education sessions
• Networking through volunteer opportunities, such as authoring newsletter articles or programming education for a 2,000-person audience
• Savings on continuing education in advanced editing topics, such as "Providing Effective Editing Comments"
• Members-only listings in the Employment bank, (only members can post jobs)
• Chat in real time with like-minded professionals

For a complete list of SIG benefits, see: http://www.stc-techedit.org/About+the+SIG

Renew now: http://stc.org/membership/renew-your-stc-membership.asp

Best regards,
Vanessa Wilburn and Jeffrey Japp
Co-Managers for the STC Technical Editing SIG
http://www.stc-techedit.org
Twitter: @stc_te_sig

Hello fellow STC Technical Editing SIG Members! Here's a quick roundup of
the news and articles as we wrap up the year.

I (Michelle Corbin, ) have thoroughly enjoyed bringing you Corrigo via the previous blog-based Web site and now our new wiki-based Web site for the past several years, but it is time for me to pass the torch to our new Managing Editor, Anitha Abraham, at .

As you can see, we had only a few articles in our final issue of the year. If you have any ideas for what you'd like to see in the newsletter in 2010, or if you have any inclination to write any type of article for the newsletter in 2010, please contact Anitha!

Looking for an editing job? In addition to the SIG's Employment page which provides member-to-member leads (SIG members only) and a collection of syndicated jobs from across the globe, the SIG Toolbar now delivers new job opportunities directly to your browser.

Select Resources > Employment to get a continually updated list of Editing jobs.



Don't have the SIG Toolbar yet? You can install it right now (available for Firefox, IE, and Safari).