STC Rochester Chapter

We’ve invited Dr. Richard Fasse to speak on “Why Online Learning is Better than Traditional Face-to-Face Courses.” Dr. Fasse collaborates on new technology initiatives and strives to improve the quality in the nearly 200 online courses offered each quarter at RIT. 

Reserve now. Space is limited for this event!

When: Tuesday March 16, 2010, 5:30-8:15 pm

Where: Label 7 Eatery & Bar, www.labelseven.com

Cost: $18 members; $20 guests/non members. Please RSVP to Estelle Holloway at Estelle.Holloway@lenel.com  by 3:00, Thursday, March 11. 

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Registration is now open for spectrum 2010, STC Rochester’s 51st annual conference.

The theme is Tech Comm 2.0: MAKING CONTACT. This educational conference, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency Rochester on Friday, April 9th, is filled with a variety of hot topics in technical communication and social media. The sessions are geared to help you make contact with your end user in this day and age. See the program schedule for a complete list of sessions.

Register for the Rochester’s premier technical communication conference by 5:00pm EST on Monday, March 15th to get the early bird discount.

Registration will officially close at 5:00pm EST on Monday, April 5th, although you can register at the door at a higher cost.

To register, go to: https://www.regonline.com/spectrum_2010

The spectrum 2010 Conference Committee is looking for your input. We would like to know what year you started in technical communication and what applications/hardware you used to do your job. With each of you contributing, we should be able to come up with an interesting display to show how far we have come. Please email Jennifer Angelo at jennifer.ferris@kodak.com by Friday, March 12th. spectrum 2010 is fast approaching! The theme for this year’s conference, which will be held on Friday, April 9th at the Hyatt Regency in Rochester, is Tech Comm 2.0: MAKING CONTACT. The program will focus on new technologies and techniques for communicating information. We hope you will join us.

Registration information will be coming very soon, so stay tuned!

The spectrum committee is looking for exhibitors to showcase their products at the conference. Whether you wish to support the conference as a Sponsor, Vendor, Advertiser, or Donor, this event is a great opportunity to make contact with over 100 technical communicators in the Rochester area and surrounding regions.

Instructions

1. Review the attached form: spectrum 2010 supporter request.
2. Choose your level of support.
3. Sign and return the form, payment, artwork, and/or materials to the respective committee members.

Per the suggestion of Ann Wiley, Debbie Strellrecht has created a Twitter account for our chapter. The account is for sharing spectrum 2010 updates, chapter news, and tech comm ideas.

Debbie is our spectrum 2010 PR Chairperson.

Follow http://twitter.com/stc_rochester.

Note: Hash tags in our tweets: #stcorg, #stc_rochester, #web2.0

If you would like to tweet using this ID, contact Debbie Strellrecht. Or if you want Debbie to post a tweet for you -send her the text. (140 chars or less!)

You can learn more about Twitter at http://help.twitter.com/portal. Or, contact Debbie with any questions.