Education & Conferences

Maintained by BRIAN CURTIS
Atlanta Chapter

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

Society for Technical Communication Telephone Seminars

A telephone seminar is much like a large conference call in which the speaker makes a presentation over the phone. As a participant, you simply dial the 800 number from your phone, enter your personal identification number, and you're connected! You then sit back and listen to the presentations and join in the lively Q&A discussion that follows. Upcoming telephone seminars include

• November 7: "Getting into Instructional Design" (Constance Bille)
  
  
• November 19: "Looking, Finding, Searching... How Users Do It" (Whitney Quesenbery)
  
  
• December 13: "Finding Work in Troubled Times" (Douglas Florzak)
  
  
• December 17: "A Brief, Comprehensive Indexing Primer" (Seth Maislin)
  
  
• January 8: "Organizing and Leading a Software UI Design Team" (Diane Feldman, Carla Merrill)
  
  
• January 15: "Using Personas to Bring Your Users into the Development Process" (Whitney Quesenbery)

For more information, visit http://www.stc.org/seminars.asp.

User Interface Engineering

October 14-17 : User Interface 7 (East) in Cambridge, MA. At User Interface 7 East, you’ll get 4 full days of in-depth tips and techniques from the world’s leading industry experts. On Monday and Wednesday, you will attend full-day seminars with our expert speakers. On Tuesday, we have a day of 90-minute Featured Talks. And we cap off the week on Thursday with our UIE Research Forum, packed with User Interface Engineering’s latest research findings. For information, visit http://www.uiconf.com/.

William Horton Consulting

October 17-18, 2002
William Horton will conduct a two-day course, "Special Topics: Designing Knowledge Products and Reusable Knowledge Objects," as part of the Information Design Certificate Program at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.

October 31-November 1, 2002
William Gribbons will conduct a two-day course, "User and Task Analysis," as part of the Information Design Certificate Program at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.

For more information, contact

Laura A. Murgo, Program Secretary: (781) 891-2701 or (781) 891-3449 (fax)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

October 20-23, 2002
The Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group for documentation (ACM SIGDOC) will hold its annual conference at the Toronto Downtown Hilton in Toronto, Canada. The conference theme is "Connect." Conference keynote speakers include Stephen Doheny-Farina and a representative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). For more information, please contact:

Michael Priestley, IBM Canada
Toronto Information Development
Dept. 833
Toronto, ON
Canada
(905) 413-3233
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
www.acm.org/sigdoc

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

American Society for Information Science and Technology

November 18-21, 2002
The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) will hold its annual meeting, "Information, Connections, and Community," at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For more information, please contact:

American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 495-0900
(301) 495-0810 (fax)
asis@asis.org
www.asis.org

Adaptive Environments

October 18-19, 2002
"Web Design that Works for Everyone"
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, U.S.A

The conference on Web Design that Works for Everyone will bring together the two worlds of digital design and accessible technology. The conference will deliver useful information about practice, policy, and tools and serve as a catalyst for innovative collaborations.

For more information, go to

http://www.adaptiveenvironments.org/webconference/overview.php

Center for Information Development Management

November 14–15: "Structuring Information for Online Success"

In this seminar we'll examine how you can use the analysis and design of structure to make sense of the online experience, from the World Wide Web to online help and documents of all types.

For information, go to http://www.usabledesign.com/.

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

To learn more about the IEEE, 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.