Scott Abel, the Content Wrangler, and Mark Pearce, ebook entrepreneur, are giving a free Web seminar September 22 sponsored by Aptara

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STC is offering a Job Hunter Boot Camp free to STC members and at $65 to non-members. You can get details at http://www.stc.org/membership/job-seeker-boot-camp-intro.asp. Being unemployed is not fun; it is easy to get discouraged. Having help from leading STC members, access to a job board just for technical communicators, and podcasts that give you tips on successfuljob hunting techniques can make the whole process easier.

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How do you decide if a usability and user experience topic or publication is useful to you as a technical communicator? Discussions in most user experience book clubs are often only generally related to our profession. The STC UUX (Usability and User Experience) SIG is organizing a Virtual Book Club, which Kathleen MacDowell has volunteered to coordinate. Right now, the club is limited to UUX members until we see how well things work. Get the details, sign up, and suggest a book for discussion.

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I am so ready for Spring! Up here in the glorious Northwest, Winter lingered into April in Seattle. At our cabin in the Cascade Mountains, it snowed yesterday, April 13! Thank goodness I am going to Atlanta for Summit 2009, where the sun will shine and the weather will be warm.

I know it is a rough year to get funding for conference attendance; I am going with support from you, the UUX members. But in some ways, this is the most important time to get together. We need to support each other through these rough months.

Here are some activities Usability and User Experience is sponsoring or taking part in that you want to be sure to check out. Just click the image to open a full-size image.

Monday, May 4, 7:30 am: UUX business meeting. Breakfast is provided.

Monday, May 4, UUX Networking luncheon. For a ticket, sign-up for the luncheon when you register and pay the $35 fee. You may also be able to buy a luncheon ticket on-site.

Monday, May 4, Community Reception 6 pm

Below are the days and times of several sessions of interest to those of us doing usability and user experience. Of course, none of you want to miss the UUX Progression to learn great methods of testing documentation usability.

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The seminar is presented by a European company, but in this day and age, that is irrelevant. Check it out.

http://sclipo.com/webclasses/view/d071ff895ac617c63c920e055c67b535

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My friend Nick Finck is amongst those who are sharing the slides of their past conference presentations at KomunitasWeb. At the bottom of each presentation, there is also a link to other presentations by the same person.

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