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The Region 5 Conference, sponsored by the STC Lone Star Community this year, is coming to Addison, Texas on November 2–4. In honor of the Lone Star Community’s 50th anniversary, the conference theme is the “50 Facets of Technical Communication.”

Sessions are organized into three broad stems: Usable Tools; Standards of Practice; Learning and Leading. There are almost 30 sessions, including four half-day workshops on Saturday afternoon. The conference has an exciting program, including the keynote speakers. (more…)

Information provided by Mark Hanigan, STC Fellow, Manager Florida Technical Communication Competition

Have you created a publication, online communication, or technical art that you are especially proud of?

Are you developing communication that is perhaps not following industry best practices and you aren’t able to convince management to do otherwise?

Would you like to get solid, constructive feedback from three of your peers about your work in technical communication?

If you answered yes to any of these three questions, no matter where you are, there is an STC community-sponsored or regional-sponsored competition waiting to hear from you! To find a competition, please visit http://www.stc.org/comp/internationalCompetitions01.asp where this year’s announced Online, Technical Art, and Technical Publication competitions are listed. (more…)

November 1-30 2006. 4-week online course “Creating Website Indexes,” Continuing Education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/workshops/online.shtml#indexes

The new members of the STC Board want to hear from you. They have sent introductions to us, posted in a PDF document on this site.

By the STC Online SIG. Originally published February 2006. Revised September 2006.

Based on input from Destry Wion, member, Online SIG web team

There are many open source systems that provide functionality that a dynamic site for an STC SIG might need. To select a system, match the objectives and requirements for the dynamic SIG site to each candidate open source system, and choose a system that supports the maximum number of site objectives and requirements without customization.

The major activities in selecting an open source system are described here. (more…)

The site http://www.htmlgoodies.com/, maintained by Joe Burns, provides resources and links to additional ones including a forum on web design.

Find information on many aspects of email and email clients at http://mailformat.dan.info/ Topics include Headers, Body, Trailers, Quoting, Attachments, and Configuration of clients.

Edukalibre is a project funded by the European Commission under the Socrates/Minerva program, to promote information and communications technology in education.

The main goal is to explore new ways of producing educational materials, based on the practices and procedures observed in libre (free, open source) software development.

Find more information and try the system at http://edukalibre.org/. The formats are Latex and DocBook. There is integration with the learning management system Moodle. Conversion to HTML and PDF is reported to be available.

November 27 2006. CM Professionals Summit, “Content Management and the World Enterprise.” co-located with the Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies, Boston, MA, USA.

Editors Sigrid Kelsey, Louisiana State University and Kirk St. Amant, Texas Tech University, are calling for chapter proposals for this new book, tentatively scheduled for publishing by Idea Group Reference (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.), www.ideagroup-ref.com, in 2008.

If you are interested, submit one single-spaced page on or before September 30, 2006 to Sigrid Kelsey at sigridkelsey@gmail.com (Rich Text Format or Microsoft Word is acceptable). Include the purpose and content of the proposed chapter and how the proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book. Details follow. (more…)

by Cindy Currie, STC Fellow and Region 1 Director dir1@stc.org

Cindy encourages us to volunteer, review the monthly newsletter from STC President Paula Berger, attend fall conferences, nominate members for Associate Fellow, and particpate with allied organizations. (more…)

Pubishing Hyperviews Online is a significant activity of the Online SIG. If you’re an Online SIG member, please register on Hyperviews Online. The site administrator will make you a contributor, and you can post news, articles, or both.

If you have a question you can consult with fellow members on the SIG email list (subscribe) or the STC Forum (http://stcforum.org).

Rachel Houghton is submitting a proposal for a progression to be sponsored by the Online SIG at the 2007 annual conference, May 13 to 16 2007 in Minneapolis. The program committee will review proposals and announce which have been accepted late this year.

The web team is maintaining the STC Forum (http://stcforum.org) and the STC Wiki and blog-based collaborative SIG sites: http://stc-on.org

The Online Meetings team is working on development of podcasting information.

If you would like to propose a project or volunteer please contact the SIG Manager; the email address is on the Leaders page.

Please welcome our 64 new members who joined in August. By our count the Online SIG now has 1917 members. STC has 15,202 members.