STC Newsletter Exchange
The STC editors conduct a newsletter exchange on the newsletter editors’ list. Many editors publish a link to each issue as it is posted. This article accumulated links to recent issues and information about some of the chapter and SIG newsletters. Beginning July 28, 2007 links are being accumulated in separate posts, and there is a category “STC Newsletter Exchange.” There is also an STC Forum post where great articles in chapter and SIG newsletters are highlighted: http://stcforum.org/viewtopic.php?pid=3423#p3423 RSS feeds from STC newsletters are aggregated in the sidebar of Hyperviews Online.
Carolina Chapter. Communique. This online newsletter has its own site, http://stc-carolina.org/newsletter/tiki-index.php The home page lists the contents of the most recent issue, and there is an archive of past issues. It is easy to print all or some of the articles in each issue, and to search for articles on a topic. There is an RSS feed. You can rate articles and discuss them. Don’t miss “Is Technical Writing Your Calling” in the Carolina Communique for first quarter 2007: http://stc-carolina.org/newsletter/tiki-index.php?page=Pith+and+Vinegar%3A+Is+Technical+Writing+Your+Calling%3F June 7, 2007.
Northeast Ohio Chapter. Lines and Letters. A summary of the newsletter is emailed to members and the newsletter editors’ list, and the full issue is posted on the web. The June issue is at http://www.neostc.org/lines/#story4 The chapter is hosting a regional conference in the fall: http://www.neostc.org/lines/#story3 Chapter members have reported their experiences at the STC Annual Conference: http://www.neostc.org/lines/#story18 June 17, 2007.
Orange County Chapter. TechniScribe. The current issue and back issues are accessible from http://www.ocstc.org/newsltr.asp This is a traditional newsletter published as a navigable PDF. Chapter members receive a printed copy and the current issue is uploaded at the same time. The chapter posts a link on the Newsletter Editors’ list. The June 2007 issue has an excellent summary of the STC Annual Conference from the viewpoint of the incoming chapter president. June 11, 2007
Technical Editing SIG. Corrigo. The newsletter is distributed monthly to SIG members as an email summary of the articles on the SIG blog site, http://www.stc-techedit.org/ The month’s issue is also compiled in a PDF file that anyone can download: http://www.stc-techedit.org/newsletter/newsletter-archives/ The April, 2007 issue included “Is Consistency Boring,” http://www.stc-techedit.org/2007/04/03/is-consistency-boring/ –an article on a key aspect of reuse which appeared originally in the Carolina Communique. June 7, 2007.
Usuability and User Experience SIG. Usability Interface. The newsletter is published quarterly on the SIG website. It is announced on the SIG email list. The June, 2007 issue is posted at www.stcsig.org/usability/index.html In this issue, Alice Preston reviews Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge: http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/0706-moggridge.html June 15, 2007.
June 1st, 2007 at 12:14 pm
The STC Community Data page (http://stc-on.org/wiki/STC_Community_Data) also has links to all chapters and their newsletters.
June 12th, 2007 at 12:36 am
The Orange County Chapter newsletter was added on June 11, 2007.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Do any newsletters have RSS feeds? Rather than creating static links here, we could simply syndicate each newsletter’s feed.
For starters, the Carolina Communique (http://newsletter.stc-carolina.org) has an RSS feed: http://stc-carolina.org/newsletter/tiki-wiki_rss.php?ver=2
If we can’t syndicate feeds on this blog, I volunteer to add them to the syndication of STC RSS feeds that I started on the STC Carolina website: http://www.stc-carolina.org/STC+Feeds+Worldwide
July 28th, 2007 at 12:53 am
The goal here is to describe the newsletters at a particular point in time, and to describe them all at least once before the year is out. The goal on the STC Forum is to highlight at least one outstanding article in at least one issue of each newsletter.
This post is going to get too long to be effective, so I’ll create a category for the STC Newsletter Exchange and post new descriptions as often as I can.
We can syndicate the RSS feeds from the STC newsletters in the sidebar, and I’ll add that feature too as I find the newsletter feeds.