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Review:
November
Meeting
By:
Kim
Lindsey,
Vice
President,
NEOSTC
What
happens
when
a
scheduled
presenter
cancels
at
the
last
minute?
Read
Kim
Lindsey's
review
of
our
November
meeting
.
.
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Preview:
December
Meeting
By:
Stephanie
Webster,
Programs
Committee
Join
us for
our third
annual
holiday
happy
hour.
We encourage
you to
come to
this informal
get-together
and kick
back with
friends.
Again,
you'll
have an
opportunity
to give
to the
Cleveland
Foodbank.
We donated
about
100 pounds
last year
–
let’s
make this
another
record
year for
our chapter!
Feel free
to advertise
at your
workplace
and bring
a larger
box!
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Feature
Article:
Preparing
for Your
Job Interview
By:
Stephen
Steiniger
BGSU
Student
Member
A
successful
performance
at
the
job
interview
will
greatly
increase
your
chances
of
getting
hired.
A
key
part
of
having
a
successful
performance
is
convincing
the
interviewer
that
you
are
the
“right
person
for
the
job.”
So,
you
may
ask
yourself,
how
do
I
convince
the
interviewer
that
I
am
the
right
person
for
this
job?
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NEOSTC
Sponsors
New College-Level
Competition
By:
Jeanette
Evans
Academic
Relations
Committee
NEOSTC
is
trying
a
new
activity
this
year.
The
new
activity
should
add
some
interesting
elements
to
what
our
chapter
does.
The
new
event,
as
suggested
by
a
list
provided
from
STC,
is
a
college-level
competition.
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On
the Front
Lines
 In
this issues,
Lori discusses
STC dues
renewal,
BLOGs,
the loss
of an
editor,
college-level
competition
and more!
From
the
National
Writers
Union:
An
Action
Alert
issued
by
the
National
Writers
Union
alleges
that
Borders
Books
is
hurting
writers
and
urges
writers
to
boycott
Borders
Books
by
not
advertise
for
them
or
support
them.
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Features
Society
Page:
FREE WEB
SEMINAR!!!
RoboHelp
and FrameMaker
TechniFact
:
computers,
Spacemen
and Russians
. . .
OH MY!
Vocabulary
Builder
navel-gazing
\NAY-vul-GAY-zing\
noun
: useless
or excessive
self-contemplation
Esoteric
Editor:
Haven't
received
your print
copy of
Lines
&
Letters
Light?
In this
issue
I'll explain
why.
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NEW
MEMBER
ALERT!
Welcome
New Members!!
Thomas
A. DeJovine
Jon-Erik
Konves
Please
join Lines
&
Letters
in welcoming
new members
Thomas
A. DeJovine
and Jon-Erik
Konves
to the
Northeast
Ohio Chapter!
Thomas
joined
us on
November
10 and
Jon-Erik
joined
us on
November
4, 2003.
Welcome
Aboard!!
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 HOT
Lines
Transformation
Team Charged
with New
STC Vision
BLOG
1. noun.
A contraction
of weblog,
a form
of online
writing
characterized
in format
by a single
column
of chronological
text,
usually
with a
sidebar,
and frequently
updated.
Usage:
“The
Transformation
team has
posted
an interesting
entry
about
transforming
STC into
the 21st
century
on its
blog.”
2. verb.
To write
an article
on a blog.
Usage:
“After
reading
the journal
that the
Transformation
Team wrote
about
transforming
STC, I
feel a
serious
need to
blog my
thoughts
about
the transformation.”
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Reviews
- Telephone
Conferences:
Proving
Our Worth
to Clients
and Employers
Sharon
reviews
the September
24 telephone
conference,
hosted
by Parker
Hannifin.
Bonni
Graham,
owner
and CEO
of Manual
Labour,
Inc.,
presented
the seminar
and discussed
how to
show (not
tell)
management
that what
we do
is financially
important
to the
company.
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Academic
Relations
Committee
Report
By:
Jeanette
Evans
Academic
Relations
Committee
Here
are the
highlights
of our
current
activities:
-
Agreed
at
last
board
meeting
to
sponsor
a
college
level
tech
com
competition
–
as
far
as
I
can
tell
a
first
for
our
chapter.
This
is
in
addition
to
the
high
school
competition
as
coordinated
by
Bege
Bowers.
-
Agreed
to
target
the
following
schools
and
assign
individuals
as
follows:
•
CCC –
J. Evans
(with
N. Ebie)
•
Lakeland
–
Doug Kepp
•
YSU –
J. Evans
(with
B. Bowers)
•
Miami
–
Karla
Caldwell
•
TBD –
Jill McCauslin
•
St. Ignatius
–
Brian
Baddour
(high
school)
•
Mayfield
–
J. Evans
(high
school)
-
Planning
an
Oct
16
follow-up
meeting
to
address
outstanding
issues
and
review
the
first
pass
of
a
flier
as
developed
by
Karla
Caldwell.
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Adobe
Acrobat
6.0 for
Technical
Communicators
By:
Kim Lindsey,
Vice President
Kim
reviews
the October
8 "webinar",
hosted
by Parker
Hannifin.
The
presenter,
Brian
Wood,
an Acrobat
Specialist
from Adobe
Systems
reviewed
the manynew
features
of the
latest
version
of this
powerhouse
of an
application.
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Paper
Prototyping
for Tech
Writers
By:
Lori Klepfer,
President
Intuit
Corporation
(formerly
MRI) hosted
the Paper
Prototyping
for Tech
Writers
STC telephone
seminar
on September
10. The
seminar
was presented
by Carolyn
Snyder
and well
attended
with about
10 members
present.
This being
the first
seminar
I attended,
I was
pleased
that the
information
was broken
up by
audience
polling,
Q&A,
and the
playing
of audio
clips
from the
case studies
discussed.
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Technical
Communication
Departments:
Establishing
a Baseline
of Performance:
By:
Stephanie
Webster,
Programs
Committee
Stephanie
reviews
the November
5 telephone
conference
hosted
by Intuit.
Saul Carliner
presented
“Establishing
a Baseline
of Performance”.
In 2001,
STC gave
Saul a
research
grant
to conduct
a study
on evaluating
technical
communication
departments
around
the country
and measuring
their
performance
values
and metrics.
Saul is
currently
an assistant
professor
of educational
technology
at Concordia
University
in Montreal,
Quebec.
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BLOG
Review:
STC
Transition
Team BLOG
By:
Jeanette
Evans,
Academic
Relations
Committee
Those
of us
who made
postings
on the
STC Transformations
BLOG or
have just
been following
the discussion
got a
real earful.
The postings
covered
everything
from HUGE
criticism
to constructive
solutions
to something
in between.
The range
of concerns
and comments
is wide
and found
here
Jeanette
reviews
the STC
Transition
Team BLOG
and
answers
such questions
as:
- What
good
are
these
postings?
- Why
are
members
leaving?
-
What
can
we
expect
for
STC's
(and
our)
future?
- And
More
.
.
.
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NEW
SENIOR
MEMBER!
Congratulations
to Karen
Donley
Karen
is our
newest
Senior
Member!
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Newsletter
editor
contact
information:
Nora
E. Ebie,
Editor
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