EVENTS
&
CONFERENCES
Last
updated: January 31, 2001
Here you'll find links to STC Online SIG groups as well as links to STC chapters that at times host meetings with online-related topics. Also listed are links to conferences that include online information sessions.
Information is organized into these sections:
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Society for Technical Communication (STC)
"Getting
Started with Usability Testing" Telephone Seminar
March 7 & 14, 2001
The Society for Technical Communication will offer a two-part telephone seminar on "Getting Started with Usability Testing." Part 1 will be March 7, part 2 will be March 14. Conducted by Carol M. Barnum, professor of technical communication at Southern Polytechnic State University and award-winning author, the seminar will answer questions about one of the most talked-about issues in business today. For details, including an explanation of how telephone seminars work, visit www.stc-va.org/usabilitytest.html.
2001
STC International Conference
May 13-16, 2001, Chicago, Illinois
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
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
2001
IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC 2001)
October 24-27, 2001, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Conference Web site: http://www.ieeepcs.org/conference.html
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
2001
WinWriters Online Help Conference
March 4-8, 2001, Santa Clara, California
See http://winwriters.com/ for links to WinWriters seminars and publications, which are designed for online Help writers.
SOLUTIONS,
Inc.
See
http://SolutionsEvents.com/
for links to conferences and training seminars.
See http://winwriters.com/htc/index.html for information about the Help Technology Conference sponsored by SOLUTIONS, Inc. and WinWriters.
Boston
See
the list of Programs and Workshops links on the Boston chapter home page
http://www.stc-boston.org for
events and workshop information.
Central
Connecticut France Mohawk New York Metro Southwestern Ontario Toronto
See http://stc.org/region1/ccc/www/meetings.html
for a meeting schedule.
See
http://stc.org/region1/sfc/Events.htm
for a list of France Chapter and other European events.
See
http://heron.tc.clarkson.edu/~mohawk/calendar.html
for the events calendar.
See
http://stc.org/region1/nyc/www/events.htm
for the chapter events calendar.
See
http://stc.waterloo.on.ca/stc/calendar.html
for meeting and workshop information.
See
http://stctoronto.org/main/SIGevents.htm
for a description of the STC Toronto Online SIG. See
http://www3.sympatico.ca/bkeevil/onlinesig/ for meeting details.
Carolina
See http://www.stc-carolina.org/www/PICs/online/OnHome2.shtml
for Carolina Online Communication SIG meeting news.
Atlanta
See http://stc.org/region3/atl/www/cal00_6.htm#online
for postings about Atlanta Online SIG meetings.
Orlando
See
http://stc.org/region3/orl/www/meetings/mtg.html
for meeting and other event information.
Northeast
Ohio
See
http://stc.org/region4/noc/www/current.htm
for news about networking lunches and monthly meetings.
St.
Joseph Valley
See
http://stc.org/region4/sjvc/www/meetings.htm
for a schedule of upcoming meetings and notes from past meetings.
West
Michigan Shores
See
http://iserv.net/~wms/ for information
about the next meeting and a link to the chapter calendar.
Alamo/San
Antonio Austin Houston Hyper
Texas Lone
Star Southern
Arizona
See http://stc.org/region5/asc/www/calendar.htm
for meeting news.
See
http://stc.org/region5/aus/sigs/sigs.html#online
for Austin Online Information SIG meetings news. Seminar information is
posted at http://stc.org/region5/aus/seminars/seminars.html.
See
http://stc.org/region5/hou/calendar.htm
for links to monthly calendars. See http://stc.org/region5/hou/announce.htm
for links to class, seminar, and workshop information.
See
http://stc.org/region5/lsc/www/events.html
for listings of chapter and other Region 5 events.
See
http://stc.org/region5/saz/calendar.htm
for the 2000 calendar.
Manitoba
See
http://stc.org/region6/man/www/pic_menu.html#online
for information about the Manitoba Online SIG.
Rocky
Mountain Willamette Valley
See the
Professional Resources link on the Rocky Mountain chapter home page http://stcrmc.org/
for seminar and events information.
See
http://www.stcwvc.org/sigs/sigs_online.shtml
for Willamette Valley Online SIG information.
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