Our Community
We are a geographic community of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), a worldwide association dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of technical communication in all its facets. The STC Alberta Chapter represents technical communicators within Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories.
Our membership includes writers, editors, documentation specialists, translators, multimedia artists, online Help developers, graphic designers, instructional designers, and website designers. Our community represents independent consultants, contractors, employees, managers, supervisors, educators, and students in the field of technical communication.
2011 Highlights
2011 kept up pace with previous years and saw several major accomplishments:
- Winning the Pacesetter Award.
- We’ve had successful Social Media expansion with Twitter and LinkedIn. In fact, we’re number 109 out of 400 of Twitter’s top influencers.
- Our LinkedIn Group is picking up quite the pace with 76 members as of January. Originally it was an open group, but now it’s moderated to ensure no one unrelated to our field joins.
- Encouraging membership by highlighting numerous benefits; in 2011, our membership peaked at 174 and it continues upward!
- Since 2009, the JobLink has had a 34% increase in job postings and we maintained this level through 2011, with efforts to increase the amount of jobs in cities other than Edmonton and Calgary.
- Added numerous new volunteers throughout the year including a steady rotation of new copy editors on the newsletter team.
- And we’ve been busy with even more; see the entire list.
