The next quarterly Technical SIG meeting will be held on September 23, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Eastern.

Our award-winning guest speaker, Larry Kunz, will present "Managing Documentation Projects in a Collaborative World - New Best Practices for Editors."

This event will be accessible to non-members of the SIG.

For complete details, see
http://www.stc-techedit.org/Managing+Documentation+Projects+in+a+Collaborative+World+-+New+Best+Practices+for+Editors.

The Technical Editing SIG would like to welcome Andy Werth as our new External Advertising Manager.

Andy will be facilitating participation in SIG programming for non-members. To this end, Andy has begun to set up our systems, serve as a point of contact, and spread the word that Technical Editing SIG programs are now open to non-members.

Welcome Andy!

Carol Lamarche
Program Manager
Technical Editing SIG

The Technical Editing SIG is calling for presenters for next year's STC conference. The TE SIG progression is a great opportunity to get your feet wet by presenting at a conference or to explore a brief topic in a less formal setting. Next year's STC conference will be held in Sacramento, California on May 15-18, 2011.

If you plan to attend the conference and have an idea for a topic, we'd like you to develop your topic and present it as part of our progression session. Any STC member may present as part of this session.

Hello fellow STC Technical Editing SIG Members!

The winners of the 2010 Diane Feldman Technical Editing SIG Scholarships have been announced! Congratulations! Juliette Cannata has won the 2010 Diane Feldman Technical Editing SIG Undergraduate Scholarship. Carie Lambert has won the 2010 Diane Feldman Technical Editing SIG Graduate Scholarship. Jeanette Buenger has won the special one-time scholarship funded by the Caroline Chapter. (This year, the Carolina Chapter of the STC partnered with the Technical Editing SIG to award this special one-time scholarship to a graduate student in honor of Diane Feldman, a long-time STC and Technical Editing SIG member who passed away this spring.)

For more details about the scholarships, see http://www.stc-techedit.org/article432.

Also, once again this year, the Technical Editing SIG Progression at the STC 2010 Conference, Editing Challenges and Opportunities, was very popular with 103 attendees. Those attendees enjoyed 10 different presentations in a roundtable discussion format, progressing from one table to the next.

For pictures and highlights on the Technical Editing SIG Progression, see
http://www.stc-techedit.org/A+Big+Howdy+from+2010+Conference+in+Dallas.

The Society for Technical Communication invites you to contribute your ideas, studies, experience, and expertise at our 2011 Technical Communication Summit, the Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication.

The Summit is scheduled for 15-18 May 2011 in Sacramento, California, USA. Proposals are due by 10:00 AM EDT (GMT-4), Monday, 4 October 2010. See http://notebook.stc.org/call-for-proposals-for-2011-summit-is-now-open/ for more information.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Diane Feldman Technical Editing SIG Scholarships!


Congratulations also to the winner of a special one-time scholarship offered by the Carolina Chapter in honor of Diane Feldman!

At the the recent SIG presentation "When Your Ship Comes In," Jack Molisani held a draw for a free entrance to the 2010 LavaCon conference.

The winner of the draw was Janet Seaborg. Congratulations Janet!

To learn more about LavaCon, visit http://lavacon.org/.


Carol Lamarche
Program Manager
STC Technical Editing SIG

The STC Technical Editing SIG received an Award of Excellence in the 2010 APEX Awards in the One to Two Person–Produced Web & Intranet Sites category. If you're a SIG member but haven't registered for access to the SIG's website, you can do so now to obtain full access to our award-winning site!

Hello fellow STC Technical Editing SIG Members!

First, it’s a delight to announce that the Technical Editing SIG received the Community of Distinction award for 2009-2010! The Community of Distinction award is the highest STC Community Achievement Award (CAA). The citation on the certificate reads as follows: "For effectively providing valuable resources on an outstanding website, innovating new uses of social media, and setting aggressive goals in a challenging year." The Technical Editing SIG also received the Pacesetter Award for 2009-2010. The Pacesetter Award acknowledges a professional or student chapter's contributions to STC goals through a single innovative and effective program or activity. Kudos to the SIG leadership! A special thanks to all the volunteers and participants who make this SIG a vibrant forum for networking and learning.

And, the deadline for the Diane Feldman Technical Editing SIG Scholarship has been extended to May 30!

Now, just a quick update from the newsletter front. We are trying to release the newsletter every two months. We hope that the roundup of articles would be the right mix of a minimum number of articles that you can skim through quickly.

There have been slight delays in the rollout of issues for 2010. However, our effort is to keep it on-course and rollout an issue by the fifth of every other month. We truly appreciation all those who support us in this initiative!

We encourage you to contribute an article for the next issue. Please send us your draft by June 15.

The 2010 Summit offered more than 90 education sessions, with subjects touching on every area of technical communication. Over 80 of the sessions in the program have been captured and will be available starting this summer for those who did not attend in person.

STC’s SUMMIT@aClick offers these conference sessions as MP3 files, audio synched to PowerPoint, or video synched to Powerpoint. The purchase of SUMMIT@aClick also allows access to speaker materials where available.



Pre-purchase the 2010 edition of SUMMIT@aClick at the special preliminary rate of $149 for members or $299 for nonmembers. This discount rate is only available until 1 June 2010. After that date, the price will rise to $249 for members and $499 for nonmembers.

See http://www.stc.org/edu/special-advance-offer.asp for more information.