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Registration for the 1995 Region 5 Conference for the Society
for Technical Communication is still open. Payment can be made
on-site if you call in your registration first.
STC Regional conferences are known to be full of good info and
opportunities at a low cost. One-day registration fees range from
$50 to 80 and two-day registration fees range from $75 to 150,
depending on your student and STC membership statuses.
The Sept. 29-Oct. 1 conference is a two-day conference in Tulsa with
four concurrent sessions on both days, including the Consultants
and Independent Contractors PIC Workshop sessions on Saturday
and the Region 5 Chapter Leadership Workshop on Sunday (free for
attendees). Copies of the Proceedings binders are available
for purchase.
Since the conference is less than 1 week away, I thought I'd
mention various connections that the conference has with our
fair list, techwr-l.
1. Session topics include many that are discussed in this
forum: certification, electronic publishing, writing online help,
telecommuting, getting started in tech writing, self-directed
work teams, what tech comm students need to know about the world
of work, and writing for the WWW.
2. Techwr-l regulars and lurkers are presenting sessions.
These are the ones I know of: Rose A. Wilcox, Larry Kunz,
Binion Amerson, Charlene Strickland, and Karen Steele.
3. Some vendors who have been mentioned on techwr-l will have
booths in our expo and will be raffling or giving away mercandise:
Solutions, Inc., Info Access (Guide), and Cognetics (Hyperties).
(There are several other vendors and donors, also.)
4. Some of the conference planners are techwr-l readers, too. :)
LaVonna
LaVonna F. Funkhouser Immediate Past President, OK Chapter
lffunkhouser -at- halnet -dot- com Program Manager, 1995 Region 5 Conf.
COREStaff Communication Svcs. Society for Technical Communication http://stc.org/region5/okc/conferences/region5conf.html
To register for the conference, call 918-588-4317.
My opinions do not officially represent anyone other than little ol' me.
