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Li-At Rathbun Feels Our Pain at the 2018 STC Summit

On 20-23 May 2018, STC held its annual Technical Communication Summit in Orlando, FL. There were many fascinating education sessions and presentations, with some them being of particular interest to technical editing practitioners. For details about the STC Technical Editing SIG’s activities during the Summit, read this article.

The STC Technical Editing SIG’s very own Li-At Rathbun presented a well-received presentation called We Stoop to Conqquer: Adjusting to Mediocrity, which Viqui Dill (STC IDL SIG co-manager and proud member of the STC Technical Editing SIG) attended and reviewed.

(This article is also available on the STC Instructional Design and Learning SIG newsletter; for more interesting IDL-related articles, go to http://www.stcidlsig.org/newsletter/).

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2018 STC Summit: Magical Days with the Technical Editing SIG

By Amanda Altamirano

The 2018 STC Summit was filled with classes, vendors, events, and much more. The STC Technical Editing SIG brought our own flair to the Summit, which helped our new and prospective SIG members to mix and mingle.

With the running theme “Technical Editors Are Magical”, we were ready to spread the word about our SIG and how it supports career development for technical editing practitioners all over the world. Our presence at the Summit began at our Welcome Reception table. Adorned with magic hats and wands, we met several Summit attendees who were interested in our SIG. Attendees grabbed our flyers with more information on the SIG, its leaders, volunteer opportunities, and upcoming events. Winners from our Hangman game walked away with prizes. Those who visited our table snagged a Technical Editors Are Magical pin or a handful of chocolate. Some attendees expressed interest in volunteer opportunities with our SIG, and others just wanted to learn more about us. It was a fun and informational reception for Summit attendees who stopped by the Technical Editing SIG table!

The Summit was a unique opportunity for our SIG to hold our quarterly meeting as a face-to-face networking lunch. With approximately thirty new and current SIG members in attendance, attendees were able to connect with others and gain more insight into our SIG. We also handed out awards and recognized several volunteers who supported our SIG over the past year and during the 2018 Summit. Those who were recognized at the lunch walked away with their own Technical Editing SIG swag bag with a few goodies, including a personalized award, SIG pin, and SIG mug. The lunch also helped attract a couple of new volunteers to our SIG, including our newest Co-Manager, Angela Eaton.

Overall, the Summit gave the Technical Editing SIG the opportunity to engage in face-to-face conversations with new and potential members. Our SIG membership continues to rise, as does our volunteer and leadership support.

For the next 2019 Summit in Denver, we plan to give our SIG a facelift – and we will show it off in a big way! We are planning a new SIG logo contest, which will plaster the winning design all over our Technical Editing SIG website. In addition, it will be featured on all promotional material and TE SIG swag at the upcoming Summit. We will be back with a new theme and new venue to host our quarterly meeting. Get ready to join us!

General Summit 2018 Summaries

For a general roundup of Summit 2018 summaries and impressions, go to http://www.stc-sd.org/index.php/2018/05/2018-stc-summit-cheers-to-a-milestone-birthday-and-the-future/

For a summary of the keynote speech written by the STC TechEdit SIGs’ own Larry Kunz: https://larrykunz.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/the-linchpin-of-inspiration/

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New Feature: The Best of Corrigo!

As the official publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG, Corrigo is full of useful information for technical editing practitioners.

But Corrigo has been around for a very long time, and there’s a lot of great content sitting in the archives. It’s neither practical nor useful to try and sift through years of back issues and posts.

So, to help you find older content that is still relevant, we are introducing a new feature – The Best of Corrigo!

Every now and then, we’ll republish an article from the archives that we think is still just as relevant and helpful now as it was when it was first published. (Of course, if an article needs to be slightly updated, we will do that.)

To make it easier for you to find these articles again in the future, they will be tagged with a The Best of Corrigo tag, and the titles prefaced with the same phrase.

If you have any suggestions for older Corrigo articles that you think should see the light of day again, please send an email to editor@stc-techedit.org and tell us why.

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New Feature: From Around the Web!

As the official publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG, Corrigo is full of useful information for technical editing practitioners.

But we aren’t the only source of useful information for technical editing practitioners – the Web has lots of great blogs, articles, and sites with loads of relevant and important stuff for our professional development.

To make sure that this scattered information reaches a wider audience, we are introducing a new feature – From Around the Web!

Have you come across some information somewhere on the Web that you think needs to be brought to the attention of Corrigo’s readers? If you’ve spotted great content in the wild, send us a link to it at editor@stc-techedit.org, and we’ll consider adding it to our From Around the Web feature.

To make it easier for you to find these articles again in the future, they will be tagged with a From Around the Web tag, and the titles prefaced with the same phrase.

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New Feature: Of Interest!

As the official publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG, Corrigo is full of useful information for technical editing practitioners.

But nothing can beat the experience of a live interaction, when like-minded technical editing practitioners get together to discuss ideas that lead to further professional development.

Events of interest to technical editing practitioners happen frequently (both face-to-face and online) and all over the world. And even if you couldn’t make it to one of them, someone who did can write a summary of what they learned and share it with the wider technical editing community.

To make sure that information about events of interest (both past and future) reaches people who want to know more, we are introducing a new feature – Of Interest!

Have you been to a presentation, webinar, or conference and learned something that you think needs to be brought to the attention of Corrigo’s readers? Do you know of a get-together, meetup, or talk that you think Corrigo‘s readers might want to attend? If so, write a summary of the event, send it to us at editor@stc-techedit.org, and we’ll consider adding it to our Of Interest feature.

To make it easier for you to find these articles again in the future, they will be tagged with an Of Interest tag, and the titles prefaced with the same phrase.