June Announcements

[Mir Haynes]

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          Society for Technical Communication - Carolina Chapter 

                           ~ June Announcements ~
 
            For late-breaking changes, check our web site at  
                         http://www.stc-carolina.org

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                                IN THIS ISSUE
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1. MONTHLY PROGRAM – Bringin’ It Home: National Conference Synopsis
2. MANAGEMENT SIG – Documentation Quality Metrics
3. ONLINE SIG – Future of Technical Writing
4. TECHNICAL EDITING SIG – "Proactivity Personified"—Planning Meeting for
Program Year 2004-2005
5. FRAMEMAKER SIG – Better PDFs with TimeSavers
6. TRAINING EVENTS – SURVEY SAYS! Designing, Deploying, and Deciphering
Online Surveys: 2-part Hands-on Workshop

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1. MONTHLY PROGRAM – Bringin’ It Home: National Conference Synopsis

Date and Time: Thursday, June 10, 6:00PM

Topic: Have you ever thought about attending a National STC Conference?
Come to the June meeting and find out what motivates members to attend a
conference for the first time. Discuss strategies to convince your company
to cover the cost and learn more about the professional, personal, and
corporate benefits attending a conference.

The June program features a group of Carolina Chapter members that were
lucky enough to attend the 2004 STC National Conference in Baltimore.
Marie Dexter, Melanie Drake, Ann-Marie Grissino, Anne Jones, Larry Kunz,
Frances Wirth will participate in a panel discussion and cover topics such
as online information and structured authoring, single-sourcing, content
management, and XML, We’ll also learn more about how we, as technical
communicators, can add value for our employers by filling nontraditional
roles and the "transformation" that STC is undergoing.

Speakers: Melanie Drake, Ann-Marie Grissino, Landra Hester, Anne Jones,
Larry Kunz, Frances Wirth

Location: Teksystems, located at Suite 201, 1201 Edwards Mill Road, in
Raleigh

Food: Cold cut sandwiches on Kaiser rolls with mustard and mayo available,
fresh salad with dressing, a variety of sodas and bottled water

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2. MANAGEMENT SIG – Documentation Quality Metrics

Date and Time: Thursday June 3, 11:30AM-12:00PM eat/network, 12:00-1:00PM
discussion

Topics: Documentation Quality Metrics 

Facilitators: Helen Weeks and Susan Johnston from SAS

Location: TEKSystems (Directions http://www.teksystems.com/offices/nc.asp)

Lunch: Brown bag

Contact: Alexia Idoura at 405-2622 or alexia.idoura at veritas.com

NOTE: If you aren't on the Management SIG mailing list, email Alexia. If
you'd like the notes from the SIG planning meeting in May, just let her
know.

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3. ONLINE SIG – Future of Technical Writing

Date and Time: Wednesday, June 16, 6:00-6:30 PM chat, 6:30 PM presentation

Topic: What does the future of technical writing look like? Join a panel
of senior STC members for thought-provoking review of issues:
Collaboration across the globe, learning to be a lone writer in a smaller
entity while participating in a larger enterprise, forging the discipline
ahead for future needs, content engineering, moving technical writing
offshore, performance support, usability engineering, and interaction
design. How large will the team or audience enterprise become? Who will we
be?

Location: TBD

For details about our future programs:
http://www.stc-carolina.org/sigs/online/OnEvent.shtml

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4. TECHNICAL EDITING SIG – "Proactivity Personified"—Planning Meeting for
Program Year 2004-2005

Date and Time: Thursday, June 24; 12:00-1:00 PM

Topic: "Proactivity Personified"—Planning Meeting for Program Year
2004-2005

Location: IBM's Building 656, 500 Park Offices Dr. in RTP

To RSVP, contact Mike Boyd at blueboyd at bellsouth.net, 919-460-8702 (H),
919-531-0357 (O)

For more details about the Technical Editing SIG:
http://www.stc-carolina.org/sigs/teched/index.shtml

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5. FrameMaker SIG – Better PDFs with TimeSavers

Date and Time: Thursday, June 17; 6:00-8:00PM

Speaker: Shlomo Perets

*** PLEASE NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME AND LOCATION FOR THIS MEETING ***

Topic: Renowned PDF expert Shlomo Perets will show you what
beyond-the-ordinary PDFs can really do! He will show you how you can set
these features manually in Acrobat and then how to automate the process
(set it once and forget it!) using TimeSavers. TimeSavers is a product
that Shlomo created that lets you add PDF coolness right into your
FrameMaker files, so you don't have to keep redoing everything each time
you generate a new PDF. There is a version of TimeSavers for Word, also
(but you use FrameMaker, right?). We will also elect new officers at this
meeting.

Location: Matrix Resources

For more information and directions, go to
http://www.stc-carolina.org/sigs/frame/events.shtml

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6. TRAINING EVENTS – SURVEY SAYS! Designing, Deploying, and Deciphering
Online Surveys: 2-part Hands-on Workshop

Learn to develop an online survey to evaluate customer satisfaction, get
user feedback, or serve any of a variety of other survey purposes.

This 2-part workshop will discuss how to ask survey questions and obtain
responses, how to compile data, and how to present findings. You will be
introduced to a free resource for deploying your surveys, and you will not
only gain valuable insight into techniques of survey-building, you will
come away with a finished professional product.

Course fee includes personalized assistance and consultation during the
survey preparation phase, as well as an additional two weeks of follow-up
support.

Who:      Naomi Kleid
Date:     2 Saturday mornings, July 17 and August 14
Time:     9:00 am -12:30 pm 
Where:    PPI, 2950 Gateway Center Blvd., Morrisville
Cost:     $95 (non-STC $105)
Contact:  Patsy Loo, 872-9868,  patsyl00 at earthlink.net 

For more details, visit The Training Hub at:
www.stc-carolina.org/training/

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Mir Haynes
Communications Mgr, STC Carolina Chapter
mir.haynes at mindspring.com