Save the date for PCOC 2010:October 7–9,
Nashville, Tennessee
Building and sustaining a
technical communication career
The East Tennessee Chapter of the
Society for Technical Communication continues a Tennessee
tradition with the Practical
Conference on Communication (PCOC) at the Millennium Maxwell
House Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee,
October 7–9. The event begins Thursday evening,
October 7, with a reception on the
patio of this popular Music City hotel. A Friday keynote
breakfast and Friday and Saturday
break-out sessions complete the weekend.
Our theme this year, “Building
and sustaining a technical communication career,” focuses on new
ways to apply communication skills in
the marketplace. In our call for presentations, we’re
seeking ideas for conference sessions
in the following areas:
Going green:
Marketing green technologies
Marketing green products, managing
non-profit green initiatives, communicating the value of
sustainable practices to corporate
staff or the public
Going paperless: Writing
and designing communications for electronic media
Developing web-based or multimedia
products, harnessing the power of social media,
experimenting with user-generated and
user-extracted content
Going back to basics:
Writing, editing, and designing effective communication products
Merging basic writing, editing, and
design skills with new tools and techniques: Minimalism,
topic-based writing, collaborative
writing, information architecture, content management
Preparing customers
to go it alone:
Training and accessibility tips and tricks
Developing classroom or online
training programs, designing user assistance, preparing
procedures, providing accessible
communications products
Going with the flow: How to
choose and use new communications technologies
Making the right choices and using new
tools productively
Going to work: Managing
the communicator’s workplace
Creating a positive work environment
for large and small communications groups, lone writers,
and members of virtual teams
If you are interested in speaking,
please respond to our call for presentations. If you’re a
communicator interested in growing
your career, consider joining us at PCOC 2010 in Nashville
this
fall. See http://www.stc-etc.org for
details and refreshed information.