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1. GRCN Networking Event
(Events/Networking Event)

...st business and engineering disciplines.  Group time is also allocated for limited career coaching from organizers and visiting speakers. If you are planning on attending our next event, p...

2. 2005 STC Newsletter Competition: Award of Merit
(Download:Chapter Documents)

Our newsletter, The Watershed, earned the Award of Merit from the Society for Technical Communication in 2005. Actually, our newsletter came within 0.5 point of earning an Award of Excellence. This

3. The Watershed, November-December 2007
(Download:The Watershed/Archives)

...ok forward to assisting all of you make the most of your careers and JRC STC membership. What to expect from The Watershed—information relevant to building the JRC technical communications profe...

4. Creating "Search Engine Friendly" Web Content
(Download:Program Artifacts)

...about developing content for Web sites that improves the ability of Web surfers to find and use content from a Web site. Although this training is not comprehensive, Mary provides valuable insight int...

5. Doc2Help presentation
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...lars invested in their current projects. The main concern is how involved would a conversion process be from RoboHelp to another tool. Is converting from one tool to another a painful project? What op...

6. Doc2Help: The One-Click RoboHelp Replacement
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...lars invested in their current projects. The main concern is how involved would a conversion process be from RoboHelp to another tool. Is converting from one tool to another a painful project? What op...

7. Marketing & Public Relations in Small Organizations
(Download:Program Artifacts)

This PDF was made from the presentation of Ms. Holly Claytor at our November 28 program meeting at The Work Factory.

8. Content Drives Form Drives Content
(Download:Conference Artifacts/2004)

This presentation examined the lessons learned from the development and publication of the “State of the Valley,” published in November 2003 by the Valley Conservation Council. This docu

9. Globalizing the Role of the Technical Professional
(Download:Conference Artifacts/2004)

...on of “It’s a small world.” But for those of us working in or with cultures different from our own, the world is still a vast and varied array of distances, large and small. Technica...

10. Keynote Speech (handout)
(Download:Conference Artifacts/2004)

...ws? Mary Wise, a former circus clown and current technical communicator, shared the lessons she learned from her show–business career. ...

11. Single-Sourcing with MS Word and Adobe FrameMaker
(Download:Conference Artifacts/2004)

... Microsoft Word® and Adobe FrameMaker™. Often, organizations are required to move information from one source to another. This session demonstrated how to round-trip information between Micr...

12. Teleworker, Telecommuter, Virtual Worker
(Download:Conference Artifacts/2004)

This presentation offered an employee’s perspective on working away from an office environment. This session briefly described telecommuting and its purpose, and also went into detail about co

13. Where Do We Go From Here?
(Download:Conference Artifacts/2004)

Chris Thiessen, a former president of James River Chapter STC, pointed out that, as writers faced with job demands, we often develop tunnel vision and “tunnel skills” that enable us to

14. Creating Usable Indexes (handout)
(Download:Conference Artifacts/2005)

Richard (Dick) Evans, a recognized expert in the art of effective indexing, presented examples from real-world technical indexes that illustrate common flaws. Participants did not leave knowing ever

15. Developing a Template Document
(Download:Conference Artifacts/2005)

...or manage templates using tools such as Adobe FrameMaker™, Microsoft Word® and more benefited from this presentation. Participants learned tips and techniques to deploy templates for rapid ...