Announcements

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 …

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 …

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 …

The second quarter 2013 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, available now both online and in print.
This issue features a special section that is likely to be of high interest to readers interested in the topics of user experience and design:  Designing a Better User Experience …

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 …

Dear Colleagues,
It affords me great pleasure, as the General Chair of The 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology. Ethics’2014 will be held from Friday, May 23 to Saturday, May 24, 2014 at the Chicago Marriott O’Hare, Chicago, IL, USA.
The Symposium’s …

The First Quarter 2013 issue of the peer-reviewed journal, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is now available online and in print.  The issue features these articles:
How to read these articles: Members can read these articles either by visiting IEEExplore (a valid password and userid are …

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 …

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 …

The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society extends an invitation to PCS members to attend a webinar on professional communication, presented by Dr. Julia Williams, president of PCS.
Improving Workplace Email Using the STOP Method, Thursday, 30 May 19:00 – 20:00
Past Webinars:
The Power of Presentations: Make Yours Informative, Persuasive, …