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STC-ITC Annual Business Meeting Agenda (Summit 2013)

May 3rd, 2013

      STC International SIG (STC-ITC)
Business Meeting -  STC Summit 2013

Agenda

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Please bring your lunch and drink

Announcements

  • Welcome:  current and potential members

Leadership team changes and positions available

  • Gina Wadley, Acting Manager
  • Phil Gray, Assistant Acting Manager
  • Ann Wiley, Webmaster/Email List/Editor
  • Open:  Membership/Volunteer/Student Coordinator

Roadmap:  STC Summit sessions for ITC SIG members

 

Date Time Session Location
Monday
May 6
3:30-4:30 PM And Then There Was One … Documentation Team
(Kirsty Taylor)
Hanover CD
6:30-8:00 PM Communities ReceptionSTC-Europe, STC-International, STC-Canada Centennial Ballroom
Tuesday
May 7
7:15-8:15 AM STC-Europe Meeting
Breakfast
Sway Restaurant in the Hyatt lobby
8:30-9:30   AM The 10 Golden Rules of Global Content Strategy
(Val Swisher)
Grand Hall B
10-11   AM Communication and Translation Progression

  •   Is Your Content Ready for Localization?   (Mary Dulin)
  •   New International Standard for Content   Management (Annette Reilly)
  •   Plain Language: Accessibility for Content   (Whitney Quesenbery)
  •   SME>Me>E-Screencast Creation and   Collaboration (Christopher Bartis)
  •   There’s Nothing Simple About Simplified   Technical English (Bernie Koontz)
  •   You Want That in Chinese—Yesterday??   (Kirsty Taylor)
  •   When Words are Not Enough (Alan Porter)
  •   Traditional Executive Summary Versus the   Videogame Proposal One-sheet (Ann Jennings)
Regency V
Tuesday
May 7
11:30   AM-12:30 PM STC-ITC   and STC-Canada Meeting Hanover   FG
1-2 PM Introduction   to Multilanguage Terminology Management Hanover   E
1-2 PM Using Foreign-Accented Speech: To Localize or Not? (Halcyon Lawrence) Hanover AB
4-5 PM Man   Versus Machine in the Translation World (David Sommer) Hanover   E
Wednesday 11:30-12:30 Writing for Everyone: SEO, ESL, Translation, and   Accessibility Grand Hall D

Discussion

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Plans are underway for the STC Summit 2013 in Atlanta

March 23rd, 2013

We’re busy planning our events at the STC Summit in Atlanta (May 4-8), including our table at the Communities Reception on Monday evening and our business meeting (to be held either on Monday or Tuesday during lunch time).

The keynote presenter is David Pogue.

We’re especially looking forward to the following presentations and progressions on localization and translation:

  • Six Easy Ways to Control Your Localization Costs, presented by Bill Swallow
  • Take Control of Your Content, presented by Jean-Luc Mazet
  • Using Foreign-Accented Speech: To Localize or Not?, presented by Halcyon Lawrence
  • Writing for Everyone: SEO, ESL, Translation, and Accessibility, presented by Char James-Tanny
  • Communication and Translation Progression
    • Is Your Content Ready for Localization?
    • Localization Is Key to Going Global
    • New International Standard for Content Management
    • There’s Nothing Simple About Simplified Technical English
    • New International Standard for Content Management

For descriptions, see the full list of currently scheduled sessions, with presenters and descriptions (PDF).

Gina Wadley
Acting Manager

 

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