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2009 IPCC in Hawaii

Submitted by bstill on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 12:19pm.

2009 IPCC Make plans to join us in beautiful Hawaii for the 2009 International Professional Communication Conference. Set to run from July 19-22 at the Hilton Hawaii Village in Honolulu, the conference's focus is on po'okela, or the commitment to excellence, in the communication of technical information. How can we best define, measure, and achieve that excellence?

The conference call for papers is available as a .pdf attachment below. Coming soon you'll be able to submit your proposals online right here. In the meantime, take a look at just a few of the suggested topic areas:

Voting for the PCS Administrative Committee

Submitted by bstill on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 12:07am.

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PCS members now have from August 1, 2008 until the end of September 15, 2008 to vote for nominees to serve on the PCS Administrative Committee. There are six nominees. You can learn more about them (they were asked to respond to a series of the same questions) by selecting their names below:

Tackling Typical Grammar Problems

Submitted by bstill on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 11:56pm.

8:09 minutes (7.47 MB)

This training podcast provides examples as well as explanations and tips for dealing with a few grammar or usage problems that occur for many engineering and technical professionals who have to communicate in a hurry, via, for example, email. Listen for ways to know when to use can or may, affect or effect, it's or its, and also me, myself, or I.

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PCS Newsletter for August, 2008

Submitted by bstill on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 1:01pm.

Saul Carliner looks at ways technical communicators can evaluate the effectiveness of their content, Neil Perlin and Mark Lewis put the spotlight on two new tools, Microsoft Ribbon and MadCap's Flare, Michelle Labrosse helps us with ways to manage our stress, and in our TC history spotlight Ed Malone looks back on the career of A. Stanley Higgins, an important, early editor of STC's journal. All this and more in the August, 2008 Newsletter.