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Are you looking for an affordable way to enhance your professional development and prepare yourself for the coming trends in technical communication? Would you like to visit beautiful and lively downtown Austin to enjoy some live entertainment, sunny skies, and unlimited shopping? How about an opportunity to visit with your Society for Technical Communication (STC) leaders as well as other experts in the technical communication field? You can do all of this and more when you attend the 2003 STC Region 5 Conference!
The 2003 STC Region 5 Conference will be held October 9 through 12 in Austin, Texas. Come learn new skills, compare management techniques, and assess marketplace trends that help strengthen your networks and your performance in the industry. Workshops, exhibits, seminars, Austin fun, and plenty of grub are all on the schedule for the stampede.
Region 5 has 2,100 members throughout Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. This year's conference focuses on the following emerging frontiers of technical communication:
Sessions will be organized into four conference tracks: Writing, Education, Management, and Technology. Conference presenters bring diverse expertise from commercial and professional organizations – including IBM, Vignette, Pervasive, BMC Software, Usability Professionals Association – and from educational programs, including The University of Texas, St. Edwards, Texas Tech, and Sam Houston State.
The Tech Comm Stampede features two internationally known speakers. Bill Gribbons, associate professor of Information Design at Bentley College and founder of Bentley's Design and Usability Testing Center, will open the conference on Friday, October 10, by speaking about the transformation of our field and therefore of our roles within organizations. Technical Communication has shifted from an almost exclusive focus on writing to one that now considers the broader performance support needs of users through means beyond the written word. Andrew Dillon, a specialist in human-computer interaction and professor and dean at The University of Texas School of Information, will speak at the luncheon on Saturday, October 11. His books include Designing Usable Electronic Texts and Evaluating the User Experience of Information Architecture. Dr. Dillon will speak about user-centered design methods, information architecture, and other cutting-edge topics of interest in our current environments.
Visit the conference website to learn more about the conference schedule, registration, and hotel information: http://www.stcaustin.org/confregion5. Check the conference website regularly for complete program scheduling, abstracts, speaker biographies, and other conference updates.
Hope to see Y'ALL there!