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Greetings East Bay STC Chapter members!
The year is winding down quickly as we once again get ready for
the hectic holiday season. Thanks to our newsletter volunteers for
putting together another issue. I hope you will find the articles
in this issue useful.
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Last Message as Your President
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This is my last message as your president. We will have a new president
and a president-elect in January 2009. The Chapter election ballot
was sent out a few weeks ago. I hope you returned your vote. I will
announce our new leaders at our November meeting. Still open are
the vice president of programs and nominating committee positions.
If you are interested in one of these important roles, please let
me know.
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Updates
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Our chapter continues to keep busy, and we have had two informative
programs since we resumed from our summer break in September. The
following are some quick chapter updates:
- As I write this message, the leadership team is scheduled to
meet on October 27th. This is the last council meeting under my
leadership. Council meeting minutes will be posted on our Web
site at http://www.ebstc.org/administration.html.
- I contacted members who have not renewed their membership with
STC or our chapter. I wanted to reach out to them to encourage
them to renew and to find out why they will not renew if that
is the case. I have received several responses. Most people said
they have moved out of the technical communication profession
and do not plan to renew their STC membership. One member did
respond that she plans to renew with our chapter.
- Our chapter is co-sponsoring the Northern California Technical
Communication Competition. Information can be found at
http://stc-touchstone.org/
- We submitted our newsletter for the STC Newsletter Competition.
We will find out in the next few months if we won. We have won
a Merit award the year before and an Excellence award last year.
- We submitted a Community Status Report to STC headquarters in
August to inform them of our chapter's achievements and challenges.
I will submit another update in December.
- We submitted a Community Financial Report to STC headquarters
in September using the new process and guidelines which now includes
reporting our finances to the IRS. Yet another form to complete,
huh, Joe (our treasurer)?
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What's to Come
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- We are still working on a Webinar for this year. The Webinar
will be a special topic outside of our monthly meetings. The Webinar
Committee is working out the details. Stay tuned for more information.
- Look for another hands-on workshop early next year. We are looking
into a possible topic on instructional design.
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A Few Reminders
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Just don't want you to forget:
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If you have any articles that you would like to contribute
to our next newsletter, contact our managing editor, Alliene
Turner (hairston.turner@gmail.com).
Deadline is December 2, 2008.
- If you haven't renewed your STC membership with East Bay, we
encourage you to do so. http://www.stc.org/membership/join01.asp
In this issue of our newsletter, Bryce Walat, President of the
STC Pittsburgh PA Chapter, wrote an interesting article
about membership justification. I hope you will read it and find
it useful in making your decision to renew your membership.
- 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.
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Upcoming Programs
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The following programs are coming up:
- November 6th - "Concision and Clarity: Decreasing Word
Count and Increasing Readability" with Susan Ledford
- December 4th - "An Overview of Trends, Tools, and Technologies
in Software User Assistance" with Joe Welinske of WritersUA
- January 8th - To be determined. Note this is the second Thursday
of the month due to the New Year's holiday.
We are busy planning programs for the rest of the year, so do visit
our Web site for updated program information.
As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop
me a note at helen_ews@yahoo.com.
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Thanks for Everything
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I'd like to close my message by thanking all of our members. Without
your support and guidance, we would not be where we are today. It
has been a great 18 months, and I have learned so much from our
amazing Leadership Team and fellow members. It's been a lot of work,
but it's been worth the time and effort. I feel we have accomplished
a lot. As I look back on my presidency, I am proud of what we have
achieved and also excited about the new leaders and what they will
bring to our chapter next year. It's been an honor serving as your
president. Let's keep the momentum going! See you at the next meeting!
Have a safe and happy holiday.
Warm regards,
Helen
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