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Greetings East Bay STC Chapter members! As I was writing my last message
for the newsletter as president, STC Headquarters made an announcement regarding
a change to their fiscal year. STC is moving from a July to June fiscal year to
a calendar cycle that runs from January to December. To align ourselves with STC's
new fiscal year cycle, all current chapter officers will remain in office until
the end of December 2008.
This means that I will remain as your president
until the end of December. Also, this will mean that our chapter leader elections
will now occur in October instead of in May. Aside from this, nothing else will
change as we will still have our summer break in July and August and our meetings
will resume in September. We will have a new chapter president in January 2009.
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Events |
Now back to what I originally intended to say in my message. We continue to
keep busy this year and now that we will have an additional 6 months to fulfill
for the rest of the year, let's see if we can accomplish more! I am pleased
to announce that our newsletter won the STC Newsletter Competition in the Excellence
category. (We won the Merit category last year.) I'd like to thank all of our
volunteers for making this happen and special thanks to Dave Eicher, who was our
managing editor for the issues that we submitted for the competition. We
had some great programs over the past few months. - In March, we brought
back the ever-popular topic, "Trends in Technical Communication." Our
panel this year consisted of couples working together in our industry.
- For
our April program, we brought in "royalty" as the Comma Queen, Robyn
Brode Orsini, gave an insightful presentation on punctuation.
If
you missed any of our programs, you can check out those that were recorded on
our Podcast page (http://www.ebstc.org/podcasts.html). Our
newsletter volunteers have once again done an outstanding job putting together
the newsletter. Thank you, Susan Moxley, Joe Humbert, and our new managing editor,
Alliene Turner.
I hope you will find the articles in this issue useful.
| Updates |
The following are some updates on what's been going on with our chapter:
- Chapter elections are being moved from May to October.
- We
have completed the Strategic and Rechartering Plans for our chapter. The plans
are posted on our website (http://www.ebstc.org/administration.html)
and I have submitted them to STC Headquarters. I encourage you to look at the
plans. This is a huge accomplishment for our chapter as it helps remind us of
the chapter's goal and direction.
- I have submitted our chapter
for the STC Community of Excellence award. We will find out if we receive this
Community Achievement Award at the 55th Annual STC Conference in Philadelphia.
We have done so much this year, and I want us to be recognized for all of our
accomplishments.
- As mentioned earlier, our newsletter won an
Excellence award in the STC Newsletter Competition. Our newsletter will be on
display at the annual conference.
- Congratulations to chapter
member and STC Fellow, Judith Herr. She won the election as an STC director.
- Congratulations to senior member, Ashwini Tharval. She is the recipient
for this year's Distinguished Chapter Service Award (DCSA).
- Our
leadership team had another council meeting on April 21st. The council meeting
minutes are posted on our website. They can be found at: http://www.ebstc.org/administration.html.
- The Webinar Committee is working out the details for a possible
webinar in the months to come. So stay tuned for more information.
- We
are considering partnering with the Berkeley STC Chapter (and possibly other local
chapters) on such things as events, newsletter, and website. I'll keep you posted
on this so watch for more details soon.
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A Few Reminders |
Just don't want you to forget: -
If you have any articles that
you would like to contribute to our newsletter, contact our managing editor, Alliene
Turner (hairston.turner@gmail.com).
If we get enough articles, we will consider a July/August issue, which we have
not done in the past. - If you haven't renewed your STC membership
with East Bay, we encourage you to do so. http://www.stc.org/membership/join01.asp
- Don't forget the 55th Annual STC Technical Communication Summit
will be in Philadelphia, PA from June 1-4. (http://www.stc.org/55thConf/register/index.asp).
If you are planning to attend the conference, let me know. It would be nice to
see you there.
- The Yahoo! Groups discussion board is available
to our members. This is a forum for you to share your ideas and concerns. To sign
up, click the East Bay STC Network link in the
upper right corner on the home page of the website.
- We are always looking for volunteers. Check out the openings
by clicking on the Volunteers
link in the left sidebar of the website's home page.
| Upcoming
Programs | The following
programs are coming up before we take our summer break in July and August:
- May 1 — "Taking Control of Microsoft Word"
with Hilary Powers
- June 12 — (Note date
change. Due to the annual conference, our meeting will be the second Thursday
of the month.) This is the last program before we take a summer break. It will
be "Acknowledging our Volunteers" and reports from those that attended
the conference.
- July and August — No meetings
are scheduled. Watch for details for the September meeting.
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See You Soon |
As always, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, I'd love to
hear from yo you. You can drop me a note at helen_ews@yahoo.com.
I hope you will attend our June 12th meeting. It is always a memorable
program as we honor our fellow volunteers. They worked hard this year keeping
the chapter going strong. Have a great summer, and I look forward to continuing
as president for the rest of 2008. Let's keep the momentum going. See you at the
next meeting! Warm regards,
Helen
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