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SciCom Activities at STC Conference, Sacramento May 15-18
The SIG is offering plenty of activities for members at the STC annual conference. For those of you attending, please join us.
SUNDAY - STC Leadership Day
All STC members are welcome to attend all or part. The SciCom leaders will attend. Check out the Leadership Day schedule, including the schedule of those sessions that will be webcast.
MONDAY - 6:30pm - 8:30pm, Sheraton - Communities Reception
Our SciCom table will include copies of our newsletter, free bookmarks providing a "SciCom Guide to the Summit," and we'll host a raffle for some Little Giants of Science. Please come by on Monday and visit our table.
TUESDAY - 11:30am - 12:30pm, Room 302/303 in the Convention Center - SciCom Networking/Get Acquainted meeting
Please join us for a SciCom-only gathering. Bring your lunch and we will provide sweets.
TUESDAY evening - We are organizing a SciCom outing to a local, walking-distance restaurant
If you're interested, let us know on Monday night, so we have a headcount for the reservation.
SciCom Members Making Presentations
- RON STONE: "Strategies for Organizing Global and Local Technical Communicators" in session 223, Tuesday 4 - 5pm during the International Communication Progression.
- KAREN LANE: Serves as an index evaluator in session 308, "Index Evaluation Workshop," in the Writing and Editing track, Tuesday 10 - 11am.
SciCom Recognition
STC plans to have identifying nametag ribbons for your SIG memberships; please wear your SciCom ribbon so we can recognize each other.
You can follow us, or reach us on Twitter at the conference: @STC_SciComSIG, #stc11
SIG member survey published
|SIG manager Kathie Gorski has recently published a survey which forms part of the ongoing rechartering effort of the SciCom SIG. All SIG members are encouraged to have their say. Here's Kathie's announcement:
Greetings, fellow members of the Scientific Communication SIG.
A group of volunteers from the SciCom SIG invites you to take a survey to help us determine how we might make our SIG more valuable to you in your professional life. The survey asks you to evaluate current SIG services and potential additional services. It also asks a bit about you, so that we may get to know you better and serve you better.
Please take a few minutes to participate in the survey. It will be live through Tuesday, September 8.
The survey can be found at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=dwbgY0Ik2oWTn5ZnKEP7Yg_3d_3d
Thank you.
Kathie Gorski, your SIG manager
AMWA chapter conference, 27-28th February
|Lori Alexander, a fellow member of the Scientific Communication SIG, asked me to forward this information to you. Lori is also a member of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) and the Educational Coordinator for the Florida Chapter of AMWA. In her words:
I want to invite STC SciCom SIG members to our AMWA chapter conference at the end of February. Our annual conference will be held 27-28 February in Orlando, Florida, and features an outstanding program of three hour workshops, short sessions, and special lectures:
- Workshops: Correlation and Regression Analyses, Writing Clinical Study Reports, Patient Education Materials, and Medical Terminology
- Short Sessions: Job Hunting Tips, Is Freelancing Right for You?, Covering Medical Meetings, Handling Journal Supplements
- Special Lectures: Plain Language and National Patient Safety Goals
For the past few years, the Florida Chapter conferences have been very successful, with outstanding faculty and great networking opportunities. Last year, we collaborated with the STC Orlando Chapter and had some STC members serve as speakers. While we didn't collaborate this year, we enjoy meeting STC members and think that networking between the two associations offers benefits to all.
For more details on the conference, visit the AMWA Florida Chapter website.
