Welcome to the Website of the Connecticut Chapter of the STC
Our purpose is to introduce you to our chapter and provide information to keep you well-informed about Technical Communication and related fields.
April 22 Chapter Meeting:
Captivate and Presentations
Thank you to Honeywell for hosting our April 22 meeting!
Our April Meeting featured an informal presentation and lively discussion on using Adobe's Captivate tool to add video and animation to online documentation. Chopeta Lyons provided useful how tos and design tips for working with visuals, text and audio in Captivate products and demonstrated these in some training projects. Rob Bernobic delved into tech talk on some of the how tos, and demonstrated inserting Captivate into newsletters, online documents, and pdfs. The meeting ran until 9:00 as attendees shared questions and creative ideas.
Connecticut Chapter Election Results
Here's the result of the elections for 2009 for the Connecticut Chapter.
Anyone interested in working towards and as a chapter leader in 2010 or the future, please contact
President - Donna Ford
Vice President - open
Secretary - Wendy Fish
Treasurer - Rob Bernobich
Membership - open
Web master - Chopeta Lyons and Sean Brierley
January Chapter Meeting:
Dreamweaver Intermediate Training
Our January 2009 meeting was a one-day, intermediate Dreamweaver training class at New Horizons in Bloomfield (New Horizons calls it the "Hartford" location).
This built on the Dreamweaver basic courses we have held previously and will be followed in April with a more advanced Dreamweaver course at New Horizons.
MadCap Software Steps Up to Help Technical Communicators
MadCap is looking for ways to support the tech comm community in this recession. We're trying to help and perhaps you all can help get the word out to your members? MadCap has a promotion for folks that are unemployed, or looking to build upon their skills.
Flare + Free Training + Free Certification
Flare + Free Jumpstart training+ Free certification for $499. It is a way to give folks a chance to add Flare and some training to their ?tool box? and hopefully make them more marketable. MadCap is also hosting free tools-neutral webinars on Tech Comm topics. These free webinars are also recorded so you can view to them even if the day and time doesn?t work for you. For more information about the special or the webinars, see www.madcapsoftware.com. If you have other thoughts on things we can do to help, let me know at sburton@madcapsoftware.com.
Tool-Independed Training Webinar (Free)
MadCap Software is offering free tool-independent webinars. In this economy, everyone needs to make sure their skills are up to date and they're current on the latest topics.
Towards that end, MadCap software is running a series of free webinars in first quarter 09. All but one are tool-independent. No sales pitches, no product pitches, just free training to help people update themselves. If these are successful, we'll do more.
It's something we can give back to the community that makes us successful.
For more information and to sign up for one or more free webinar, go to http://madcapsoftware.com/training/webinars.aspx.
If you're interested in presenting a topic in the future, contact Sharon Burton at sburton@madcapsoftware.com.
Renewal and Recruitment
It's time to renew your STC membership. Additionally, we are looking to bolster our membership ranks and would appreciate your help.
Here is a sample document you can use to email a coworker or friend who might be interested in the STC. (The STC calls it the Member-Get-a-Member (MGAM) Campaign; you've probably seen emails on it.)
If you have any questions about the MGAM Campaign, please drop us a line: .
Call for Presentation Proposals:
STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter 2009 Conference
We're planning an exciting keynote speaker and workshop(s), and we're now taking proposals for session presentations at the STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter 2009 Conference.
Here's your chance to share your knowledge and skills with the technical communication and e-learning community. Do you have a topic you'd like to present that you think would be of interest, or know of someone who does? Tell us about it, complete our online proposal submission form http://www.stcpmc.org/index.php?section=43.
Deadline for proposals: January 17, 2009.
Blog: Transition to XML
While you're awaiting the writeup on the XML presentation at Oracle on November 5, why not go blog about it? http://stcct.wordpress.com
(Note, if you've never blogged before, your first entry will be moderated, so it won't appear right away.)
STC-CT Forum
Sound off on our forum. Go to http://www.stcforums.com, then in the STC Communities area, click Connecticut Chapter. See you there.