Over the past year, a small (but resilient) group of writers, translators and managers has been meeting at regular intervals at a downtown Basel restaurant.
There’s no set agenda: We discuss general topics, as well as STC and work-related issues.
If you’re interested in joining us, please leave a comment below and we’ll send you the meetup details.
The Amsterdam LIG examines Isotypes in Utrecht
On a recent Saturday, the Amsterdam LIG went to an exhibit at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht that was part of a series of events celebrating the second biennial for social design (www.utrechtmanifest.nl). The exhibit was in two parts. One part was Lovely Language: Words divide, images unite, about the Isotype pictogram series created early in the 20th century by the Austrian educator and philosopher Otto Neurath in cooperation with the German graphic artist Gerd Arntz. The second part was A Safe Place: Pictograms for disaster areas, a series of image-signs to help populations in disastrous situations. Of course, technical communicators do this kind of work all the time; try to make concepts transparently and instantly recognizable. We often use simple pictures to make things clear. Across the exhibit we were struck by the sense of the grammar and syntax of pictograms, and the need for localisation. A picture says a thousand words, but those words might be different to a person in a culture removed from our own.
Want to meet up with us somewhere in The Netherlands? Contact Alice Jane Emanuel at alicejanee@commatheory.com Want to meet Alice Jane at an event near you? Alice Jane will be at: London conference on 1 March 2008 (STC UK), Paris conference on 14 March 2008 (STC France), and Lubljana conference 16-18 April 2008 (STC TAC). See you there!
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Join other technical communicators in Switzerland for a networking fondue dinner at the Restaurant Hasenburg (Schneidergasse 20, 4051 Basel) on Friday, January 18 at 19:00.
If you would like to join us for an evening of fun and fondue while we chat about our field, send a message to Dan Jones by Wednesday, January 16. We’ll include you in our reservation.
Joyce Lasecke from Fredrickson Communications is visiting Berlin and would like to meet with fellow STCers. Since everything is on a short notice, we agreed to meet on Saturday, August 11 for breakfast, 10am at the same coffee shop where the BLIG met last time:
karvana Gabriel-Max-Str. 4 10245 Berlin
Join the Swiss Local Interest Group (SWIG)! We’re made up of TransAlpine chapter members who live and work in Switzerland or just across the border in surrounding countries. We try to meet at least twice per year—once in Zurich and once in Basel—to attend an STC Webinar together, visit a trade show, or just hang out and network.
SWIG membership is free and easy. Just send an e-mail message to Dan Jones, SWIG leader, who will add you to our mailing list. Then watch for an announcement about our next event.