STC-Phila. Metro Chapter

Society for Technical Communication

Past Presentations

Program meetings presented by the STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter have covered a wide range of topics. If you would like to make a presentation, suggest a future topic, or provide a location for a future meeting, please contact our Programs Committee.

2022

February: Webinar: Embedding Performance Support Tools within the Help Architecture

January: Webinar: Improving Tech Comm Using Road Signs & Everyday Experiences

2021

December: 2nd Annual Virtual Holiday Get-Together and Ugly Sweater Contest

November: Virtual Open House/Happy 50th Birthday, STC-PMC!

  • Danielle Villegas presents information about the state of the chapter, invites attendees to share experiences with the chapter, presents volunteer opportunities, and attendees played the game, “Older, Younger, or the Same” to guess if a pop culture item’s age compared to the 50 year old chapter!
    Watch the Open House

October: Webinar: Translating Technical Documentation

September: Webinar: From MEH to Memorable! Create IMPACT in Your Virtual Presentations

June: End of the Year Picnic/Awards Event

  • Alverthorpe Park, Mini Golf Pavilion, 483 Forrest Avenue, Jenkintown, PA 19046

April: STC-PMC CONDUIT 2021: The Mid-Atlantic Technical Communication UN-Conference (Virtual)

March: STC-PMC Virtual Open House 2021

February: Webinar: Adding Disney Imagineering to Your Tech Comm Toolbox

2020

December: Virtual Holiday Get-Together and Ugly Sweater Contest

November: Fall Webinar – Focus on Careers in TechComm

July: Cocktails & Coffee – Virtual Social Event

June: Virtual Year-End Celebration

May: Virtual Town Hall

April: Virtual Happy Hour

March: Webinar – Proactive Listening: How It Can Make You More Successful

  • Presented by Gary Sternberg, STC PMC South Jersey Networking Group Coordinator

February: Winter Social and Outreach Lunch, Landmark Americana University City, Philadelphia, PA

January: Webinar – Making Agile Work for YOU!

2019

December: Holiday Potluck, Collingswood, NJ

November: Historical Tech-Comm Hands-On Workshop at the Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA

  • Presented by Dr. Phil Jones

October: Fall Social/Networking Event, Wynnewood Lanes, Ardmore, PA

October: Webinar co-hosted with STC New England – From RoboCop and HLMT to the Future – Don’t Repeat Past Mistakes

September: Webinar – Reframing the Conversation Around Digital Accessibility

June: Chapter meeting –

Year-End Banquet and Platinum Community and Tim Esposito Fellow Celebration Party

April: Webinar – From Multimedia to Social Media to Augmented and Virtual Reality: Changing Technologies and their Use in Technical Communication

March: Webinar – What is DITA?

February: Joint meeting with PANMA – What is Content Strategy and Why Do We Care?

  • Presented by Matthew Livingstone, Nicole Hess, Debbi Dunn Solomon, and Danielle M. Villegas
    University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Huntsman Hall
    Philadelphia, PA
    Livestream video

January: Chapter Meeting – Beating the Applicant Tracking System

  • Presented by Lynne Williams
    American Executive Center
    Plymouth Meeting, PA
    Slides

2018

December: Holiday Potluck

  • Jenkintown, PA

November: Game Night!

  • Giant Willow Grove, PA

October: Lunch & Learn Webinar – Introverted Leadership: Harnessing Your Innate Strengths

September: Chapter Meeting – Get Out of the Kitchen!

  • Presented by Todd DeLuca
    Tredyffrin Public Library
    Strafford, PA
    Slides

June: Year-End Banquet and Community of the Year Celebration Party

April: Lunch & Learn Webinar – Slack for Technical Writers and Editors

March: South Jersey Networking Group

  • Famous Dave’s Barbeque, Cherry Hill, NJ

March: Spring Webinar – Millennial Documentation: Analyzing the Intersection of Content and gratification

February: Joint Chapter Event with PANMA – Putting Your Good to Use

  • Panel discussion which included two STC-PMC chapter members, Jessie Mallory and Todd DeLuca
  • Huntsman Hall, Wharton School of Business
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

January: Popup Event – Historical Tech Comm

  • Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

2017

Slides from this year are available for viewing on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/stcpmc2017.

December: Holiday Potluck Party

  • Hosted by Danielle Villegas
    Plainsboro, NJ

November: Escape Room Social Event

  • Project Escape, Conshohocken, PA

October: Creating Professional-Quality Screencasts on a Shoestring Budget

September: Fall Webinar – Managing the MarComm/TechComm Showdown

July: Canoe Trip on the Brandywine

  • Northbrook Canoe Company, Northbrook, PA

July: South Jersey Networking Group

  • Famous Dave’s Barbeque, Cherry Hill, NJ

June: Year End Banquet

  • The Great American Pub, Conshohocken, PA

May: STC-PMC Joint Event with the Department of Communication at Drexel University – Using Social Media to Grow Your Community

  • Presented by Angelina Simms

April: Spring Webinar – Effective Telling Your Story Through Content Marketing

April: CONDUIT Mid Atlantic Conference  3/31 – 4/1/2017

  • The Community Center at Giant, Willow Grove, PA
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February: Legal for Design and Tech

  • Co-sponsored with PANMA
    Presented by Heather Winett
    JM Huntsman Hall, Philadelphia, PA

January: Winter Webinar – Become a Strategic Communicator

2016

Slides from this year are available for viewing on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/stcpmc2016.

December: Holiday Party

  • Hosted by Karen Levine
    Jenkintown, PA.

November: Developing a Strategy for Mobile-first Storytelling

  • Presented by Ksenia Dynkin and Liz Russell from Bluecadet
    Abington Public Library, Abington, PA
    Presentation Slides: Mobile First Content

October: Localization Processes

September: Social to Start the Year

  • Conshohocken Brewing Company, Conshohocken, PA

September: Joe Welinske Webinar “Optimizing the Googeleability of Your Content”

June: Year End Banquet

  • The Great American Pub, Conshohocken, PA

April: CONDUIT Mid Atlantic Conference

  • The Community Center at the Giant, Willow Grove, PA

March: Project Management and Content Creation Across Mediums

February: The Changing Landscape of Freelance Workers

  • Co-sponsored with PANMA
    Presented by Ernie Lim, Katie Aquino, Alisha Miranda, David Calloway, and Danielle Villegas
    JM Huntsman Hall, Philadelphia, PA

January: Agile Living – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Never Be “Done”

2015

Slides from this year are available for viewing on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/stcpmc2015.

December: Holiday Party

  • Hosted by Carolyn Luttrell
    Wilmington, DE.

November Workshop: Applied Content Strategy: Bringing Purpose to Web Projects

  • Presented by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
    Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

October: Just Think About This – 9 Thinking Modalities to Consider

September Webinar: An Aggressive Approach to Concise Writing

September Workshop: Visual Design and UX: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

July: Canoe Trip on the Brandywine

  • Northbrook Canoe Company, Northbrook, PA

May: Year End Banquet

  • The Great American Pub, Conshohocken, PA

April: Designing the User Experience

  • Presented by Linda Daniels
    Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA

February: Becoming a S.T.A.R. Candidate

January: Happy Hour

  • The Boathouse, Conshohocken, PA

2014

November: Engaging the Future of Tech Comm

  • Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
    Harrison Brown: Beginning a Career in Software Documentation
    Todd DeLuca: Customer-Focused Content
    Juliane Mills: From Bedside to Bench to Beyond: Writing for Patients & Drug Development
    Gary Sternberg: Careers in Environmental Technical Writing
    Katie Wilson: Creating Effective Administration Documentation
    Brian Winter: Best Practices for Technical Communication Job Seekers

October: Links as Language: A Contextual Approach to Content Creation

September: Mastering LinkedIn

  • Presented by Barrie Byron
    Michael’s Deli, King of Prussia, PA
    Presentation: Mastering LinkedIn

April: Content and Control

  • Presented by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
    M. Allan Vogelson Library – Voorhees Branch, Voorhees, NJ
    Presentation: Content and Control

February: The Challenges Technical Communicators Face

January: Usability Testing for Print Documentation

  • Joe Welinske
    Webinar

2013

Slides from this year are available for viewing on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/stcpmc2013.

November: Accessibility and Communication

October: Proposals – What to Say, How to Say It, and How Much to Charge

September: Today’s Learning and Technology – How Technology Is Changing the Way People Train, Learn, and Collaborate

August: Key Trends in Software UA

  • Presented by Joe Welinske
    Webinar

June: Year-End Banquet

April: Customer Journey Maps: Visualizing an Engaging Customer Experience

Presentation Recording

February: Multi-screen Content Authoring

January: Pinterest for the Technical Communicator

2012

Slides from this year are available for viewing on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/stcpmc2012.

November: Conflict – The Art of Moving Forward

  • Presented by David A. Zimmer
    Michael’s Deli
    King of Prussia, PA
    Presentation: Conflict – The Art of Moving Forward

October: Xinfo Initiative: Beyond the Book

  • Presented by Adriane Hunt
    Abington Public Library
    Abington, PA
    Presentation: Xinfo BTB Handouts

September: Games, Gamification, and Engaged Learning

  • Presented by Cheryl Lockett Zubak
    La Salle University Montgomery County Center
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

June: Year-end Wrap Up

  • Presented by Chapter Members
    Tredyffrin Public Library
    Strafford, PA

April: Optimizing LinkedIn for Technical Communication Job Searching and Network Building

March 2012: Mid-Atlantic Technical Communication Conference
and Workshop

  • The Conference Center at Giant
    Willow Grove, PA

February: From Technical Communicator to Project Manager and Beyond!

  • Presented by Karen Flam
    La Salle University Montgomery County Center
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

2011

December 2011: Holiday Mixer

  • A friendly get-together to celebrate the holidays.

November 2011: Localizing Your Company’s Products

  • Presented by Theodora Landgren
    Tredyffrin Public Library
    Strafford, PA

October 2011: Write More, Write Less: Embracing the value of crafted words and images

  • Presented by Joe Welinske
    La Salle University Montgomery County Center
    Plymouth Meeting, PA
    Presentation: http://writersua.info/p3xfFz Code: 4523

September 2011: Adobe Tools Showcase

  • Presented by Brookwood Media Arts
    Giant Community Center – Willow Grove, PA

June 2011: Season Wrap Up

  • D’Ignazio’s Townhouse Restaurant – Media, PA

April 2011: Effective Use of Visuals in Online Presentations and E-Learning Tutorials

  • Presented by Nad Rosenberg
    Camden County Regional Branch Library – Voorhees, NJ

March 2011: Mid-Atlantic Technical Communication Conference and Workshop

  • The Conference Center at Giant
    Willow Grove, PA

February 2011: An Overview of Trends, Tools, and Technologies in Software User Assistance

  • Presented by Joe Welinske
    Temple University – Ft. Washington, PA

2010

Slides from this year are available for viewing on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/stcpmc2010.

December: Holiday Mixer

  • A friendly get-together to celebrate the holidays.

November: Strategies for Career Success

October: Three Tech Writers Walk into a Wiki

  • Presented by Lisa Groomes, Joe Pizzirusso, and Jan Jackson
    La Salle University Montgomery County Center – Plymouth Meeting, PA

September: Developing Content as a Company Asset

  • Presented by Cheryl Zubak
    The Conference Center at Giant – Willow Grove, PA

May: Single Source Publishing: Utilizing XML and DITA

April: Using Social Media to Automate Information for Reuse and Repurpose

February: Captivate 4 – New features, tips, and tricks

  • Presented by Nad Rosenberg, TechWRITE, Inc.; STC Associate Fellow
    La Salle University Montgomery County Center – Plymouth Meeting, PA

January: Using Daisy CMS to build a Web of Knowledge Online Help System

  • Presented by Richard Lowe and Rick Shaffer
    The Conference Center at Giant – Willow Grove, PA

2009

Slides from this year are available for viewing on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/stcpmc2009.

December: Holiday Mixer

  • A friendly get-together to celebrate the holidays.

November: User Experience Design and Competitive Advantage

  • Presented by Dr. Marilyn Tremaine
    La Salle University Montgomery County Center – Plymouth Meeting, PA

October: WordPress – more than a blog

  • Presented by Cheryl Zubak
    D’Ignazio’s Towne House Bar and Restaurant
    Media, PA

June: Snippets from the STC Conference

  • Presented by STC Summit attendees
    Doubletree Hotel
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

May: Optimize Your Personal Brand: Online Networking & Beyond

  • Kris Chronister, Jackson GI Medical
    Ann Pavkovic Grove, Logical Writing Solutions, Inc.
    Community Center at the Giant
    Willow Grove, PA

April: Creating Online Tutorials to Reach a Broad Audience

  • Gail Gallo, Temple University
    Elephant & Castle
    Cherry Hill, NJ

February: Writing Better E-mails

  • Gary Sternberg, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Inspector General
    Stradley Ronon
    Philadelphia, PA
    Presentation: Writing Better Emails

January: Using Audio with Captivate

  • Nad Rosenberg, TechWRITE, Inc.
    Doubletree Guest Suites
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

2008

Slides from this year are available for viewing on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/stcpmc2008.

December: Holiday Mixer

  • A friendly get-together to celebrate the holidays.

November: Faceted Classification for File Management

  • Richard B. Lowe, Thomson Reuters
    D’Ignazio’s Towne House Bar and Restaurant
    Media, PA

October: What does it take to succeed in your job?

  • Winnie Lanoix, Ed.D., Right Management Consultants
    Stradley Ronon
    Philadelphia, PA

September: Certification: History, Pros & Cons

June: Snippets from the STC Conference

  • Presented by STC Summit attendees
    Doubletree Hotel
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

May: Career Progression

  • Cherry Hill Public Library
    Cherry Hill, NJ

April: A Rapid e-Learning Primer for Technical Communicators

March: Using an Open Source CMS/wiki

  • Peter Dykstra, MetaphorX
    Steven Lungren, Liquent
    Doubletree Guest Suites
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

February: Estimating, Managing, and Tracking Projects: How to Get a Handle on Budgeting Your Time and Money

January: Instructional Design – A Forgotten Art

2007

Slides from this year are available for viewing on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/stcpmc2007.

December: Holiday Mixer

  • A friendly get-together to celebrate the holidays.

November: Behavioral Interviewing Techniques for the Interviewee

  • Denise Pettus, Independence Blue Cross
    Northeast Philadelphia Doubletree Hotel
    Philadelphia, PA

October: Creating a One-Stop Customer Knowledge Portal

September: What Is Six Sigma? An Introduction for Technical Writers

June: End-of-Year Celebrations with Awards and. . .

  • The Washlines Venue – Reviews & summaries from Minneapolis
    Doubletree Guest Suites
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

May: Translation & Globalization

  • Abington Township Library
    Abington, PA

April: Susan Burton, STC Executive Director

  • Cherry Hill Public Library
    Cherry Hill, PA

February: Designing Effective Web Sites

  • Dr. Karl Horvath of Temple University
    Crossroads Coffee House
    Manayunk, PA

2006

December: Holiday Mixer

  • A friendly get-together to celebrate the upcoming holidays and new year (and to practice the networking skills we learned in September).

November: Promote Yourself as a Technical Writer!

  • Barrie Byron, Andrea Carrero, facilitated by Steven Lungren
    Doubletree Club Philadelphia Northeast
    Philadelphia, PA

October: Indexing in a Nutshell!

  • Cheryl Landes
    Holiday Inn Select
    Wilmington, DE

September: How to network a room & make it work for you!

  • Linda Lane
    Doubletree Guest Suites
    640 W. Germantown Pike
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

June: End-of-Year Celebrations with Awards and. . .

  • The Washlines Venue – Tidbits from Las Vegas
    Doubletree Guest Suites
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

May: Graphics Survival Skills

  • Seth & BJ Hinshaw
    Crossroads Coffee House
    Manayunk, PA

April: Alternative Careers for Tech Writers

  • Gary Samartino, Nancy Kotkin, Gary Sternberg, Alison Sudhalter, Brian Winter
    Abington Free Library
    Abington, PA

March: STC-PMC Annual Conference

  • Penn State – Safeguard Scientific Conference Center
    Great Valley, PA

February: Building a Documentation Department from the Ground Up

  • Barrie Byron
    Cherry Hill Public Library
    Cherry Hill, NJ

January: Marketing Yourself as a Consultant

  • Marcia Jacquette & Gary Samartino
    West Chester University
    West Chester, PA

2005

December: Rapidly creating professional training documentation, online help, and interactive simulations using RWD Info Pak®

  • Thomas Gibbs, RWD
    Philadelphia University
    Philadelphia, PA

November: Secrets of Successfully Introducing New Technologies

  • Jordan Corn
    Philadelphia University
    Philadelphia, PA

October: Introducing Madcap Flare – The Next Generation of On-Line Help!

  • Mike Hamilton, Vice President, Madcap Software
    Mercer County Community College, NJ

September: Designing Context-Sensitive Help

  • Cheryl Lockett Zubak
    Doubletree Suites
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

May: Toolkit for the Technical Communicator & Captivate Demonstration

  • Saint Joseph’s University
    Philadelphia, PA

April: Knowledge Management Overview & Panel Discussion

  • Montgomery County Community College
    Blue Bell, PA

March: STC-PMC Annual Conference

  • Penn State – Safeguard Scientific Conference Center
    Great Valley, PA

February: Life-long Learning – Training to keep the “Techie” in your technique

  • Burlington Community College
    Burlington, NJ

January: Where in the World is Your Project?

  • Online Webinar

2004

December: STC-PMC Senior Members Networking Party

  • Woodbury, NJ

November: Instructional Design as a Career Path

  • Constance Bille
    Philadelphia University
    Philadelphia, PA

October: Structure Yes – XML Maybe

  • John Hawkins
    Holiday Inn
    Cherry Hill, NJ

September: Using Personnas in Documentation

  • Whitney Quisenberry
    Doubletree Suites
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

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