ID-IA SIG and STC in 2005
The ID-IA SIG was re-activated in March, 2005 when STC President Suzanna Laurent appointed Ann L. Wiley manager of the SIG for the purpose of leading the rechartering.
Ann surveyed the members of the SIG, then known as Information Design, and determined their interests. Because a large number of members wanted the SIG to address information architecture, it was renamed the Information Design and Architecture SIG. The rechartering document included a plan for the year and is posted here.
We posted links to the STC Board reports as they appeared in 2005. They are now posted from the chapter resources page on the STC website; please scroll down for the links.
We also posted news of the STC training event held in Virginia, October 20 to 21. Five two-day courses were offered:
- The Architecture of Content. Instructor: Jonathan Price, STC Fellow
- Creating and Using Personas to Improve Usability. Instructor: Whitney Quesenbery, STC Associate Fellow
- Focusing on Content: Making Web Sites Work for Users. Instructors: Janice (Ginny) Redish, STC Fellow, and Caroline Jarrett
- Leadership in Information Management: Developing the Business Framework and Implementation Roadmap for Single Sourcing, Content Management, and Knowledge Management. Instructor: Benhong Rosaline (Roz) Tsai, STC Associate Fellow
- XML: From Hand-Coding to WYSIWYG Authoring. Instructor: Neil Perlin, STC Associate Fellow
We posted news of the STC Scholarship program. Each year, STC offers scholarships to full-time graduate and undergraduate students pursuing careers in technical communication. The application deadline is always in mid-February and application forms and instructions are available from the STC office, http://www.stc.org.
Membership reports appeared regularly. The ID-IA SIG is the largest membership group, chapter or SIG, in STC. The SIG gains members each month, along with STC. This is the report of gains and membership counts reported each month in 2005.
December: 139 new SIG members; 2685 total SIG members; 17,176 members in STC
October and November: 221 new SIG members; 2601 total members; 16,976 in STC
August and September: 107 new SIG members; 2440 total members; 16,479 in STC
July: 52 new members; 2330 total SIG members
June: 73 new members; 2278 total SIG members
May: 85 new members; 2208 total SIG members
April: 100 new members