A Special Interest Group of the Society for Technical Communication
On Tuesday 15 October 2024 at 1:30 PM ET (click here for your local time), join the STC Coalition online for a moderated group chat on helping writers grow through the function of editing.
Topics of discussion include:
For tickets, go to https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stccoalition/1389240
The goal of the STC Technical Editing SIG (TESIG) is to provide its members with high quality information about editing processes and best practices, as well as resources that demonstrate the value of editing and editors in an organization.
To meet this goal, we are happy to announce EdEx24, an online mini-conference dedicated to the field of technical editing and to technical editing practitioners.
EdEx24 will be held on 19 November 2024 from 8:45 AM to 12:00 PM ET (for your local time, go to https://tinyurl.com/yffvfspx). Come hear the following fascinating speakers:
We especially encourage students and new technical editing practitioners to join us!
To see details about the presentations and to purchase tickets for EdEx24, go to https://tinyurl.com/mrj62na5.
The price of the tickets is for the entire mini-conference, and attendees can join at any time. All sessions will be recorded, and the recordings and slides will be made available to attendees after the mini-conference.
EdEx24 attendees who are STC members can earn up to 2 CEUs for the full half-day program. For credit, submit a request for CEUs to certification@stc.org.
So your HR department asked you to help update the employee handbook?
On 27 August 2024 at 1200 PM ET (click here for your local time), join Cindy Pao as she talks about doing a major update to the employee handbook at a previous employer. We’ll talk about the people you want on the review team, the goals for performing the update, and how your technical editing skills can help produce an employee handbook understood by most.
For tickets, click the link below:
Traditionally, editors have had to fight the stereotype of being crotchety. After all, old newspaper movies always showed the copy editor as someone who could not get along with anyone else and had been banished to a dark corner of the office forever correcting others’ articles and never getting a chance to write any of his or her own. The reality is, though, that editors provide feedback on other people’s work product, and they will be so much more successful if they do so with kindness and empathy.
On 7 May 2024 at 1200 PM ET (click here for your local time), join Fatima Hyder to find out what soft skills editors need to be successful and make editing collaborative and not confrontational!
For tickets, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/soft-skills-for-technical-editors-tickets-695325175317.
Calling all technical communicators: Join us for our first-ever Tech Comm Unconference!
The STC Chicago Chapter, in collaboration with the STC Rochester and STC Carolina Chapters and the STC Technical Editing SIG, will be hosting a collaborative space for technical communicators to come together and discuss relevant topics, including projects, questions, difficulties and more. You bring the topic and we provide the space for the discussion.
How It Works: Attendees can bring their own topics and lead discussions in our hosted breakout rooms, or they can join someone else’s topic that they find interesting. Just as at an in-person event, attendees can move freely between different breakout sessions.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to discuss new topics and ideas with colleagues in an open and inviting virtual environment!
To register, go to https://www.stc-chicago.com/tech-comm-unconference/.
When:
February 29, 2024 at 12:00-2:00 p.m. CST (for your local time, click here)
Cost:
STC members – FREE
Students – FREE
Non-members – $5