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STC India News & Notes, May-June 2011

  • My STC Network is a platform for for networking, collaboration, communication, community management, and more. It combines the knowledge-sharing capabilities of a professional network with the interactivity and user experience of a social network. To experience the My STC Network, please visit this announcement.
  • The members, who renewed their STC membership for 2011, were promised two free archived seminars, from the 2009 Technical Communication Summit. However, STC is celebrating this offering in style by offering all 38 archived seminars for free! Once you are logged into stc.org, click this link.
  • Tales from the Summit are great and too many. The new awards, introduced at the STC Honors Banquet, are listed here. The list of new associate fellows and fellows is here. Almost all of the 80-plus sessions at the Summit were recorded, and SUMMIT@aClick offers them at a nominal price. The photos from the Summit are up on the STC Flickr site.
  • Due to the overwhelming response to the April issue of Intercom being open, STC has made the May issue of the magazine open to the public. Please share this news with interested colleagues, and be sure to invite them to join STC so they can get this kind of quality publication all year long!
  • As you’d remember, at the STC Annual Business Meeting, Hillary Hart was officially installed as President and Alan Houser as Vice President of STC. Short video interviews with Hillary and Alan are captured here.
  • Two communities and two members of the STC staff recently were named winners in APEX 2011. APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and the ability to achieve overall communication excellence. Read more here.
  • A new certificate course titled ‘DITA from Legacy to the Future’, presented by Bernard Aschwanden, is added to the schedule. More details are here.
  • Submit your nominations for STC office for 2012. Either nominate yourself, or someone else you feel would make an excellent society-level officer. The election page has further details.

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