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Title: Advancing Technology--What does it mean for the Technical
Communicator?
Date: Saturday, October 29, 1994
Place: Sheraton University Center
Durham, North Carolina
Time: 8:00 am until 5:30 pm
Keynote address: Bill Horton (STC Fellow, William Horton
Consulting), "O Brave New Media" or, "How to
Avoid Becoming Road Kill on the Information
Highway"
Morning Concurrent Sessions:
1. Information Development--Saul Carliner
(Carliner & Associates) "Information
Architecture: Case Studies";
2. Management--George Hayhoe (Westinghouse
Savannah River Company) "Technology and
Management Issues"; 3. Technology: Rajah
Chacko (IBM Corp) "Object-Oriented
Programming".
Afternoon Concurrent Sessions:
1. Professional Development--Morris
Dean (IBM Corp) "Creativity";
2. Management--Ann Beebe (Sales
Technologies) "Hiring Technical Communicators";
3. Brad Mehlenbacher (English Department, NC State
University) "Designing and Evaluating Online
Support Systems".
In addition: reports from STC Professional Interest Committees,
the Annual Report, and Round Table Discussions.
For more information contact:
Ven Carver
1409 Vanguard Place
Durham, NC 27713
phone: 919-992-2928
email: ven -dot- carver -at- nt -dot- com
