The Technology Group Social Media Mashup event held at AlphaLab on August 26th was a success with nearly 100 attendees and keynote speaker Ian Rosenberger of Strategic Images speaking on business and social media. Word of the event reached the media and digital magazine PopCity was in attendance and wrote a piece on the...
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At this year’s STC Technical Communication Summit in Dallas, Alan Houser had a dual role: not only was he the Conference Chair; he was also awarded the rank of STC Fellow. Fellow is the highest honor bestowed by the Society and is only awarded to Associate Fellows whose work has distinguished the Society and...
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Congratulations to Alan Houser on earning the rank of Fellow in the Society for Technical Communication.
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As the 2009-2010 STC Pittsburgh event year ends, I’d like to take the time to thank STC Pittsburgh for choosing me to serve as President for the past two event years. It seems like only yesterday I joined STC Pittsburgh and started taking an active leadership role as Secretary in 2006. I’d like to...
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The 2010 STC Employment Roundtable was held at the student union of Duquesne University. Approximately 25 people participated and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. In a follow-up survey of attendees, the event scored a 9.2 out of 10 and speakers scored just shy of 4 out of 5. I would like to thank attendees...
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Laurel Patterson of Patterson Presentations Laurel Patterson is owner of Patterson Presentations, a business that focuses on helping people feel good and feel good about themselves. She takes great pleasure in providing a variety of clients with writing, editing, speaking and training services. She is a member of PAPEN, WorkQuest, and Toastmasters, and former...
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Material provided by Nicky Bleiel, Pittsburgh Chapter member. I am currently serving on the Society for Technical Communication Board of Directors and am running for another two-year term as a Director-At-Large. My past two years on the Board have been interesting, challenging, and important. Interesting because I have learned a great deal, challenging because of the...
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Can you believe it’s 2010 already? When I was young, I imagined 2010 as the time when the world portrayed in The Jetsons and 2010: The Year We Make Contact would be reality. While we don’t have the flying cars, space tourism and robot housekeepers that Hanna-Barbera and Stanley Kubrick predicted, we have social...
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