Announcements

Social Media in Disaster Response: How Experience Architects Can Build for Participation by Liza Potts, Michigan State University

The ATTW Book Series in Technical and Professional Communication will release its first book on 21 October 2013: Social Media in Disaster Response: How Experience Architects Can Build for Participation by Liza Potts, Michigan State University.
 
You can preorder it: http://www.amazon.com/Social-Media-Disaster-Response-Participation/dp/0415817412/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380022325&sr=1-1&keywords=social+media+in+disaster+response
 
In Social Media in Disaster Response, Potts traces how everyday …

STC J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dear Colleagues:
As you know, one of the most prestigious awards one can achieve is the STC J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching.  This year the Award Committee is seeking nominations from you for this award.  Please help us recognize excellence in teaching through …

IEEE Region 4 Student Leadership Conference (SLC): October 4 – 6th

The University of Minnesota is hosting the 2013 IEEE Region 4 Student Leadership Conference (SLC)! The conference will be held October 4th-6th at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus.
The SLC offers many exciting opportunities including but not limited to:

Leadership Training: Officer Leadership Training …

Call for Submissions for Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Call for Submissions:
Spring 2015 Special Issue on Content Management
Guest Editors: Rebekka Andersen (University of California, Davis) and
Tatiana Batova (Arizona State University)
Deadline for Submissions: October 31, 2013
Content management is a set of methodologies, processes, and technologies that let professional and technical communicators …

SIGDOC Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) Issue 1.3 Now Available

ACM SIGDOC is proud to announce that the Communication Design Quarterly  (CDQ) is now available on their website: http://sigdoc.acm.org/april-cdq-released/
This issue features the proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium on  Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) of which SIGDOC was a sponsor.
CDQR publishes four issues per year.  It seeks …

Call for Papers: 2013 CPTSC Research Grants

The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) invites interested members to apply for research grants up to $1,500. CPTSC funds research projects that contribute to our collective knowledge about all aspects of program administration. Proposed research projects should relate to one or …