Education & Conferences
Last updated: April 12, 2001

Maintained by BRIAN CURTIS
Atlanta Chapter

Here you'll find links to non-STC conferences and educational opportunities in online information.

Usable Design

Developing a Single-Source Strategy for XML Authoring, Content Management, and Dynamic Web Delivery
May 22-24, 2001, Boston, MA
Special one-time only, three day, interactive, hands-on workshop taught by JoAnn Hackos, Bill Hackos, and Tina Hedlund that includes the complete Single-Sourcing seminar in addition to the opportunity to use XyEnterprise's Content@XML authoring tool.

Developing Standards for E-Communication
June 11-12, 2001, Chicago, IL
Taught by JoAnn Hackos

International Communication Association (ICA)

51st Annual Conference, May 24–28, Washington D.C. Hilton and Towers
This year's conference will focus on the connection between communication research and policy and practice. For more information, please contact:

Robert Cox International Communication Association P.O. Box 9589 Austin, TX 78766 USA (512) 454-8299 (512) 451-6270 (fax) ica@icahdq.org www.icahdq.org

International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)

2001 International Conference, June 24-27, Hilton-New York City
For more information, please contact:

Association for Computing Machinery - Special Interest Group for Documentation (SIGDOC)

October 21-24: SIGDOC 2001 Conference on the Design of Communication in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The theme for 2001 is "Going Global: Communicating in the New Millennium." For more information, please contact:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)

2001 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC 2001) October 24-27, 2001, Santa Fe, New Mexico

To learn more about the ACM, visit these Web sites:

• http://ieee.org/
• http://ieee.org/about/
• http://www.ieee.org/conferences/ IEEE conference information

Institute of Science and Technical Communicators, UK (ISTC)

Learn about ISTC by visiting http://www.istc.org.uk/.

International Council for Technical Communication (INTECOM)

See http://www.istc.org.uk/int.htm for information about INTECOM.

WinWriters

See http://www.winwriters.com/ressems.htm for links to WinWriters seminars and conferences for online Help writers.

See http://winwriters.com/htc/index.html for information about the Help Technology Conference sponsored by WinWriters and SOLUTIONS, Inc. (see below).

SOLUTIONS, Inc.

See http://SolutionsEvents.com/ for links to conferences and training seminars.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

The following ACM SIGs might be of interest to STC OISIG members:

• Hypertext, Hypermedia and Web (SIGWEB)
• Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
• Systems Documentation (SIGDOC)
• Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH)

To learn more about the ACM, visit these Web sites:

• http://www.acm.org/
• http://www.acm.org/sigs/ ACM SIGs and SIG conferences
• http://www.acm.org/events/ ACM conference information