InfoD-Cafe: Call for participation: STC Summit, Dallas, TX 2-5 May 2010

[Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza]

Dear colleagues,

Speaking as a researcher of animated instructions,
I can say that my participation on the Society for Technical
Communication SUMMIT (Philadelphia 2008 and Atlanta 2009)
was very rewarding and that made a difference in my solitary PhD research life.

I felt that all my efforts to finish my thesis made sense: I was
finally talking to
real persons (besides my supervisor Mary Dyson) and potential readers.
So, I confirmed that what I have written and collected (as you already
know, I have this rich collection of instructional books)
about "the design of instructions"  was going to be really useful for
someone outside the academic community.
Such clear feedback helped me to create a reader "persona" and this
have had an effect on the improvement
the quality of my PhD thesis as a readable document.
By the way, if you are interested in reading it, just ask me for an
eletronic copy (marconi2006 at googlemail.com).

My experience as "track manager" has also allowed me to be up-to-date
in other interesting topics and meet
well known american researchers in person
(i.e., Phylise Banner, Janice Redish, Charles Kostelnick, Karen
Schriver, Thomas Barker, Robert Krull).
Being there twice, I also met Caroline Jarret and Paul Linnell who I
have never met before in England.

In summary, It is REALLY worth to make liasions with people who are
active on trying to make the
bridge between research and industry.
I think that it is also important to communicate with researchers that
are outside the
"traditional" information design community.

José.





2009/9/1 Caroline Jarrett <caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk>:
> Dear Café-denizens
>
> The call for proposals for the Society for Technical Communication Summit
> has just opened:
> http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2010/
>
> I'm manager of the Usability and Accessibility track, and I also thought
> that Café members might be interested in the Design, Architecture and
> Publishing track.
>
> STC is a very welcoming conference. We love to hear from our experienced
> speakers (that means you, Karen Schriver! And you, José de Souza! ) and also
> we love new ideas and new speakers.
>
> Dallas has got more to it than you might think, and (whisper it quietly in
> case the Dallas folks can hear) is also handily placed for Fort Worth, with
> its world-class museums.
>
> If you'd like to try out an idea on me before submitting it, please feel
> welcome to contact me off-list.
>
> best
>
> Caroline Jarrett
>
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-- 
José Marconi Bezerra de Souza
Visiting lecturer of Paraná Federal University
PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University
of Reading (UK)
Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication
Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA)