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Survey: The Current State of Technical Editing

by Kelly Schrank

The May/June issue of Intercom will be on technical editing, so we’d like to get an idea of what you do in your jobs as technical editors, the types of companies that employ you, tools you use, and how you work.

Please take our 5-minute anonymous survey and let us know about your work (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3QMZXDX). 

Note: This issue of Intercom will have articles about the past and future of technical editing, and how to become a technical editor. You may have contributed to those surveys, too, and we appreciate it! This is a new survey for a new article, though, so we'd love to hear your answers to these questions, too!
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STC Summit 2021 Session Roundup and Recommendations

UPDATED 18 AUGUST 2021: Access to Summit OnDemand has been extended to 30 September 2021.

By Marcia Shannon

Even though the live virtual Summit is now history, STC is still offering Summit OnDemand with access to recordings of all of the Featured Speaker sessions, education sessions, and exhibitors on the virtual Summit platform. Access to all of these goodies will be available through 31 August 2021.

I believe this would be a good education investment for anyone interested in improving their technical communication skills. To help you decide whether to spend the money to access all of the recordings, here are some of my recommendations, based on my favorite sessions. I hope you find these recommendations useful whether you are catching up on sessions you could not attend in June or attending the virtual Summit for the first time.

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Meet the Technical Editing SIG at the STC Summit 2021!

UPDATED: THE OPEN HOUSE IS FROM 12:45 TO 1:30 PM EDT.

Want to find out more about the STC Technical Editing SIG?

Want to meet and network with other technical editing practitioners?

Want to hear about the cool things we’re up to in the SIG – and maybe participate in them as well?

Come to the STC Technical Editing SIG Virtual Open House on 9 June 2021 from 1 – 1:45 PM EDT (click here for your local time)! The Zoom link is:
https://zoom.us/j/95239076337?pwd=Wi9RTWdwbkEyYllHUllJWTVQaENiQT09

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Of Interest: Presentations at STC Summit 2021

STC’s Technical Communication Summit is the premier conference for technical communication education and networking. The Summit attracts many attendees and exhibitors over a three-day period (7-9 June 2021), and brings together like-minded individuals to grow in their knowledge of the technical communication field.

As in past years, members of the Technical Editing SIG will be presenting talks at the Summit. To help you easily find them, we’ve put together a list. Please attend and encourage our members! (To register for the Summit, click here.)

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The Technical Editing SIG Wins a 2021 STC Pacesetter Award!

Announcing the 2021 STC Pacesetter Award Winners

Great news!

The STC has awarded the Technical Editing SIG a Pacesetter award for 2021! They were very impressed by our “inclusive vision in using Corrigo to ensure that those who are new to the STC, the TE SIG, or to the technical editing field have the opportunity to share their voices and perspectives”.

They are, of course, referring to our Newbies’ Corner feature, which provides a platform for new, fresh voices (especially students) to discuss technical editing – so us old fogies in the business can hear new ideas! If you are a student learning about technical editing or just starting out on your technical editing journey, and would like to submit an article, please send an email to editor@stc-techedit.org and let’s discuss it.

And even if you aren’t a newbie, you are quite welcome to submit articles about topics that you think technical editing practitioners will find interesting. For a list of ideas, click here.

We look forward to hearing from you!