STC-Phila. Metro Chapter

Society for Technical Communication

STC-PMC Members Nominated for the STC Society Board

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The election information for the STC Society Board just came out, and there are THREE STC-PMC members who are candidates! 

  • Tim Esposito, STC-PMC past president is nominated for the STC Society Secretary position
  •  Todd DeLuca, another STC-PMC past president and chapter member is nominated for Society Director re-election
  • Ann Marie Queeney, STC-PMC and one of the chairs for the Technical Editing SIG is another Society Director candidate. 


Congrats to our STC-PMC candidates representing us well! 

For more information about the elections, go to  https://www.stc.org/notebook/2019/11/13/stc-announces-preliminary-slate-of-candidates-for-2020-stc-election/

CONDUIT 2020: Connecting Minds

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The Mid-Atlantic TechComm Conference Call for Presenters Now Open!

CONDUIT is hosted by the STC Philadelphia Metro Chapter. The conference will be held on Saturday, April 4th. CONDUIT will be at the conference center at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia!

Photo courtesy of the Franklin Institute

The annual event attracts presenters and attendees from the Mid-Atlantic region, as well as other parts of the country. The conference will be organized into three or four tracks with a total of nine or more presentations. Sessions are approximately 45 minutes and are conducted in a classroom setting.

Being a presenter provides you with an opportunity to share your expertise and hone your public speaking skills in front of a diverse group of writers, trainers, and other techcomm professionals. The deadline for submissions is Sunday, December 1, 2019. If your proposal is selected, we will notify you by January 14th, 2020.

We hope you will consider participating at our conference and look forward to receiving your presentation proposal. If you have any questions, please contact us at conference@stcpmc.org.

Submit your proposal now!

November Chapter Meeting: Historical Tech Comm Hands-On Workshop at the Penn Museum

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Saturday, November 23, 10am, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Today’s technical communicators work at the forefront of the newest technologies. But writing has long been used to record and disseminate complicated information. In this workshop, we’ll look at some of the oldest administrative documents in the world, preserved on ancient cuneiform tablets in the collection of the Penn Museum. Dr. Philip Jones, Associate Curator/Keeper of the Babylonian Section, will provide a brief introduction to the documents, ancient writing systems, and what it was like to work as a scribe. You’ll also have the chance to handle the artifacts and try your hand at writing cuneiform.

Tickets include admission to the Penn Museum. After the workshop, participants are free to visit the galleries and explore on their own.

Space is limited and registration closes on November 20, so sign up today!

REGISTER HERE

Holiday Potluck: Call for Hosts

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Would you like to host the STC-PMC Holiday Potluck this year?

STC Philadelphia Metro Chapter is looking for a member to host our holiday potluck in December. 

Hosts get to pick the date and time! This is the easiest entertaining there is. You provide the location, the guests bring the food and drinks.

This annual event attracts members, spouses, and friends from the Philadelphia metropolitan tri-state area. It is a good time to socialize, network, and enjoy the holiday spirit with colleagues and friends.

We hope you will consider hosting our Holiday Potluck. If you have any questions, please contact your chapter vice president. Please let us know by Friday, November 15, 2019.

Job Available: Structured Content Technical Writer at Essential Data Corp (EDC) in Berwyn, PA

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Our client is seeking a technical writer who is passionate about creating useful and usable product documentation.

This is a contract assignment, expected to begin in September 2019 and run for approximately 1 year.

About the job

  • Own the user experience of product documentation.
  • Apply content strategy best practices to documentation planning, creation, delivery, and maintenance.
  • Create product documentation for our customers as part of the Product Content team.
  • Your content will help support both internal and external customers — including our financial customers as they use our suite of products — and help answer both the how and why of a product feature or service.
  • Given initial requirements, work with product managers, developers and other subject matter experts, as well as UX writers and content strategists, to help identify how product documentation can improve the customer experience.
  • Investigate the impact of upcoming product enhancements to existing content, determine when new content is needed, and create a content revision and creation plan.
  • Prioritize and propose updates to stakeholders.
  • Constantly seek and respond to stakeholder and customer feedback.
  • Create, maintain, and effectively communicate project status to enable team coordination and tracking. Help manage — and mentor — junior technical writers.

Qualifications
During the interview process be prepared to share samples that demonstrate the following qualifications:

  • Familiarity with the basic principles and techniques of agile content development, including pair writing, personas, user stories, and scrum.
  • Experience collaborating with software development teams — both onshore and offshore — and working on integrated product teams
  • Demonstrated ability to empathize with customers, analyze their needs, and develop a writing plan to meet those needs.
  • Experience creating user-centric product documentation for internal and external customers (minimum 5 years)
  • Experience with topic-based authoring
  • Ability to use all the standard software tools and, more importantly, the ability to learn new ones
  • Experience using authoring tools to create and publish content online
  • Willingness to help manage, and mentor, junior technical writers
  • Familiarity with editorial style guides, publishing process flows, and content management systems
  • Big-picture, strategic thinking as well as acute attention to detail
  • Comfortable working closely with web developers to provide effective online presentation of technical and instructional content.

Contact Pete Majewski at 610.233.0097

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