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- Upcoming Chapter Meetings
- Touchstone Awards Report
- Society News
- Views from the Mountain
- Membership Notes
- March Meeting Report
- May Meeting Report
East Bay Chapter meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month at Crow Canyon Country Club, 711 Silver Lake Dr., Danville, 925-735-5700.
Be sure to take advantage of our advance reservation discount ($22 by reservation, $26 at the door).
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| May 2 | Linda Stoneall | Documentation vs. Training Materials |
| June 6 |
Mark Shaltz |
EBSTC 40th anniversary party Standing Out in the Crowd— Interview Techniques That Will Make You Memorable |
For further information about meetings, see ebstc.org/ChapterMeetings.html.
Touchstone Awards Special Report
Don't miss Becky Rude's summary of the April Touchstone Awards conference.
Do you have any memories of STC?
STC is turning 50 next year and in preparation for the anniversary celebration, the Society is seeking humorous and inspirational anecdotes. Some of these stories will be published in a brochure to be distributed to all members.
So if you want to see your memory in print, now is the chance. If you think of a story you'd like to include, send an e-mail message to Liz Babcock. The 50th annual conference will be held May 18–20, 2003, in Dallas, Texas.
Here are some more details from the anniversary committee:
The STC 50th Anniversary Committee is collecting memories and stories to be shared throughout the Society by means of commemorative literature and a special Website.
Whether you're a Society leader or a chapter member, a member of many years' duration or one who recently joined, a technical communication specialist or a novice, a U.S. member or one located in another country, we hope you will participate.
Those stories will be most useful to us if they are succinct (250 words or less on any given topic) and entertaining. We would love to receive several stories from you, with each story to the point and on a single topic.
Here are some questions we hope will inspire you:
- What amusing or inspirational story can you tell us about how you joined the profession? How did you overcome obstacles that our members will find educational or amusing?
- What career and/or Society highlight can you share with us? (We will construct a technical communication timeline, so your stories in this area could be especially helpful.)
- What's your favorite STC memory?
- What mentor or role model inspired you in your career or in the Society? What makes that person memorable? What did he/she do to help you?
- What experiences, humorous or inspiring, have you had with our changing technology—typewriters to computers, red pencils to redlining?
- What can you tell us about a chapter or regional event or accomplishment that changed you, your chapter, or the Society?
This list of questions is intended to rekindle your memories, not to restrict your flow of ideas.
STC @ 50
The Society has started accepting proposals for the 2003 annual conference. This conference marks the 50th anniversary of STC's conferences for technical communicators. The 50th annual conference will be held May 18–20, 2003, in Dallas, Texas.
The three-day conference organizes its sixty- or ninety-minute educational sessions, called technical sessions, into six stems ranging in content from management, writing, and editing to the latest in technical tools, usability findings, and information design. A fourth day presents half-day or full-day post-conference sessions covering the same range of topics in full-length workshops and tutorials, at an additional charge.
You can choose between various presentation formats—oral presentation, paper-based oral presentation, panel discussion, workshop, or demonstration.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please visit the STC site for more details (stc.org/PDF_Files/2003CallforProp.pdf). Your proposal must be postmarked by August 1, 2002, to be considered for STC's 50th annual conference.
From the top of our mountain, we can see six active Northern California STC chapters. Each chapter meets on a different Wednesday or Thursday so you can attend all the meetings. Contact the respective presidents for more information or visit the chapter web site.
Wednesday
Week 1— Sacramento (President
Bill_Robinson)
Week 2— Berkeley
(President Kathryn Munn)
Week 3— San Francisco
(President Marc Smircich)
Thursday
Week 1— East Bay (President Margie
McCutcheon)
Week 3— North Bay (President
Kurt Huget)
Week 4— Silicon Valley
(President Guy Haas)
If you receive a special award, promotion, or other professional recognition, please let us know. We would like to start printing this news to keep members informed of our chapter's accomplishments.
A warm welcome to the following new, transferring, and reinstated members:
- Lisa M. Gaunt
- Maura L. Boyle from the Berkeley chapter
- Radhika Gopakumar from the Silicon Valley chapter
- Mary L. Keplinger from the San Francisco chapter
Congratulations to Diana Wilcoxson for winning the distinguished chapter service award. This award was designed by the Society to recognize exemplary dedication to the chapter and its activities. Kudos, Diana.
The
Devil Mountain Views -- May/June 2002
(ebstc.org/newsletter/front.html)
For suggestions, complaints, or (especially) compliments, contact
dmvashwini@yahoo.com