Northeast Ohio STC

Upcoming NEOUPA event information:
Content Strategy: Discipline and Value Defined Progresive Insurance

Online registration is available for Content Strategy: Discipline and Value Defined

Throughout an online redesign, clients always ask, “What about the content? Can we use any of our existing content? What type of new content should we create, but most importantly who will manage it and how?”

These are the questions a Content Strategist answers for each digital engagement, whether it’s online or mobile.  This talk will define:

• What we mean when we say "content"
• The role of a Content Strategist
• The value of integrating a content strategy into your digital efforts
• How to communicate the value of content strategy to the masses within your company

Presenter Bio

Stephanie Hale earned her Master’s in Publishing at NYU before she joined Avenue A | Razorfish as a Content Strategist and leading consultant to Condé Nast, where she created award winning work for their online magazines—Portfolio.com and WWD.com. Since then, she has relocated to Cleveland and is defining and leading the Content Strategy discipline at Rosetta Marketing.

Meeting Time:

• 6:30-8:30pm
• 6:30-6:45pm- Food & socializing
• 6:45-7:00pm - NEOUPA business
• 7:00-8:30pm - Informal presentation with Q & A
  

Meeting cost

• Free Events for NEOUPA members
• $10 for non-members

Directions

Progressive Insurance
6300 Wilson Mills Road
Mayfield Village, Ohio 44143

The Progressive Campus is located off the Wilson Mills Road exit on I-271. Check in at the Visitor's Center in the West Building at the 6300 Wilson Mills Rd. Campus.

The meeting will be in the Campus 1 West Lower Wintergarden room.

More information and online registration: Content Strategy: Discipline and Value Defined

Look for more details about the STC 2009 Workshops and Conference on www.stcpmc.org.
Or contact us directly.

The STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter's 2009 Conference - Visualizing Communication - will be held March 27 and 28 at Penn State University - Great Valley Campus.

And we are very pleased to announce that we will be joined this year by the STC Instructional Design & Learning SIG, as this event will be a regional conference for their members as well. The School of Graduate Professional Studies at Penn State Great Valley has also signed up as a Supporting Organization.

And this year we have something new to offer: the two Instructional Design Workshops on March 27, and the Instructional Design presentation session track (four presentations in all) on March 28 will be available via webcast!

Conference Looks at Leveraging Visual Communication

Find out how to use visual communication to improve the effectiveness of your technical documentation and instructional material at this year’s version of our exciting, award-winning Conference!

Our keynote speaker, the internationally acclaimed expert on visual communications Jean-luc Dumont, will kick things off by presenting his simple but solid guiding principles for designing visually effective communication. We're honored to welcome Jean-luc Dumont and proud to help debut his new book: Trees, maps, and theorems - Effective communication for rational minds.

Following the keynote will be more than a dozen presentations over four sessions covering areas such as:

• Career development
• Instructional design and e-Learning development
• Content management
• Writing and design skills improvement

Of course, there will be ample opportunity to network, catch up with old friends, and make new ones.

Workshops Examine Visual Communication, Instructional Design

This year we’ve doubled our workshop offerings, with Jean-luc Dumont and instructional design/E-Learning expert Jane Smith both leading two half-day workshops.

Extend your visual communication and IDL IQ as Jean-luc and Jane introduce key concepts, and then facilitate hands-on exploration of those concepts through case studies and group exercises.

Dates and Times

Workshops:

• Friday, March 27, 2009
• Morning sessions: 8 am to noon
• Afternoon sessions: 1 to 5 pm

Conference:

• Saturday, March 28, 2009 8 am to 5 pm

Location

The Conference Center at Penn State Great Valley
30 E. Swedesford Road
Malvern, PA 19355

Webcast information to be available shortly on the Conference website.

Look for more details about the STC 2009 Workshops and Conference on www.stcpmc.org.
Or contact us directly.

Registration for spectrum 2009: Celebrating Fifty Fabulous Years is now open!

This year, STC Rochester is celebrating spectrum's 50th year in existence. It is the longest running conference of its kind in the area, and even the mayor of Rochester, Robert Duffy, has recognized this milestone. STC Rochester is proud of this accomplishment and has planned two full days of exciting activities, including the following keynote speakers:

• Patricia O'Conner—Author of the best selling  book, "Woe Is I"  
• Arunas Chesonis—CEO of Rochester's local  communications solutions provider, PAETEC  
• Scott Abel—World-renowned Contect  Wrangler
  

Be sure to check STC Rochester's website for updated details on the conference!  

Non-linear Thinking and New Media Literacy
Presenter: Jared Bendis
Location: Dampeer Room, Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University, 11055 Euclid Avenue (enter off East Blvd.), Cleveland , Ohio 44106-7151
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Cost: Presentation-only is free, Presentation with dinner:

$10 Student, Retired, or between jobs,
$12 ASIS&T member
$15 others

Food: Sandwiches from Stone Oven. Choose from:

• Roast Beef w/Swiss cheese and horseradish-mayonnaise
• Roasted Eggplant, Zucchini and Red Peppers w/feta cheese
• Smoked Turkey w/provolone cheese and honey mustard dressing
  
  

Register: by Monday April 6, 2009.
Contact Fran Mentch, Phone: (216) 687-2365, E-mail: f.mentch@csuohio.edu

Please register even if you are coming for program only. Students welcome! See the Norasist (Northern Ohio Chapter, American Society for Information Science and Technology) Web site for more information.