Monthly Archives: June 2009

STC Action Plan

My earlier post on the STC looked at the problems, but didn’t address what the Society should do now about its financial crisis. Some people have asked me what I think the Society should do about raising money. Some of … Continue reading

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Does the STC deserve to survive?

The Society for Technical Communications (STC) is a membership organisation for technical writers and related professionals. It is more than 50 years old, and has been in decline for some years. The rate of decline has now become precipitous, and … Continue reading

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Limits of community support

One of the trends I mentioned during the meeting in Vienna this week was the growing importance of user generated content. User generated content can mean many things, but in the context of commercial products and services it generally means … Continue reading

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Notes from Vienna

Let me put your minds at rest – despite the possible pun in the title, this is not a posting about Mozart. (I leave that sort of musing to my STC colleague Tom Johnson.) Tom and I have both been … Continue reading

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