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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!

Intercom is now fully online at http://intercom.stc.org Yes, the final step in the in-depth overhaul to Intercom is complete, with an online HTML version of the magazine. This is in addition to the online PDF version we’ve already been offering. The Intercom Redesign Task Force spent months discussing the website and the design of the magazine, working hand-in-hand with our vendor to give members what they’ve asked for.


See http://www.stc.org/2010/06/intercom-now-fully-online.asp for full details.

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.

Hello fellow STC Technical Editing SIG Members!

First, here's a quick update on the STC Technical Editing front. The Technical Editing SIG has been extremely active with events, such as watercooler chats and webinars. We hope to provide a summary of the watercooler chats from our next issue onwards. Also, the Technical Editing SIG is conducting a survey to enhance the SIG Website, so it'll be wonderful if you provide your input! Visit the news page link below for the survey.

And, congratulations to Rick Sapir, the winner of the Distinguished SIG Service Award (DSSA), 2009!

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.

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.

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.