Notes from 45th International STC Conference
Anaheim, California, May 17-20, 1998

Dan Voss
Communications Department
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Florida
Lockheed Martin Corporation

This site contains notes taken from the technical sesssions at the 45th Annual International Conference of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) Anaheim, California, May 17-20, 1998. Below is a hot-linked table of contents. Additional links to other sites and materials are provided within the notes from the various sessions. In some cases, handouts are available only in hard-copy form. To get copies, contact Dan Voss via e-mail.

For downloadable files of presentations from the conference, check out the Conference Web site.

Keynote Addresses

• Opening Keynote Address, Joel A. Barker, acclaimed futurist and inventor of the "paradigm shift."
• Closing Keynote Address: "Lessons from the Idiot Box," Saul Carliner, vice president of Frederickson Communications, Minneapolis, MN, and former STC president.

Web-Related Sessions

• "Jivin' with (Java and) Javascript", Charles O. Beck, Lucent Technologies, Columbus, OH.
• "Building the Treasure House: Creating Knowledge Bases for the World Wide Web", Jack Massa, Guidance Communications, Inc., Tucker, GA.
• "Using a WWW Design Document to Build a Comprehensive Web Site", Amey L. Celoria, Mackenzie L. Faure, and Cecilia Ewa Kullberg, Modus Operandi, Indialantic, FL.
• "An Intranet for a Small Universe: A Hands-On Workshop for Communications Professionals", Alice Janet Emanuel, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• "An Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets: Page Layout for HTML", WandaJane Phillips, Write Livelihood, Kingston, ON, Canada.

Marketing Communication

• "Architecting a Tradeshow Booth -- A New Marketing Job for the Technical Communicator", Amey L. Celoria, Mackenzie L. Faure, and Cecilia Ewa Kullberg, Modus Operandi, Indialantic, FL.
• Notes from Networking Lunch with Marketing Communication (MARCOM) Special Interest Group (SIG).

Visual Communication

• "Presenting Critical Information Visually: Methods for Communicating with Images", Terri J. Miles, Manugistics, Inc., Rockville, MD, "Unlocking Images and Words: Using Image Essays as the Key," and Kim Sydow Campbell, "The Effects of Information Design on Perception of Environmental Risk."

Professional Growth and Development

• "Reinventing Yourself for the New Millennium", Carol A. Szatowski, Clear Point Consultants, Inc., Peabody, MA, "Reinventing Yourself for the New Millennium," and Beth Agnew, Insystems Technologies, Inc., Markham, ON, Canada, "Writing for the Third Millennium."
• "Are You Ready to Soar Like an Eagle?", Lance Gelein, Incoming STC President.

Communications Award-Winners...

• A Cavalcade of Communications Award-Winners in this year's STC International Publications, Illustration, and Video competitions... what they said about us at Anaheim.

Ethics and Technical Communication

• "Handling Ethical Dilemmas on the Job", panel discussion in which several STC leaders fielded questions and comments on several vignettes applying STC's ethical guidelines on the job.
• "The Case of 'Project Good-Bye, Dolly': Analyzing and Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Technical Communication", a workshop conducted by Dan Voss, Lockheed Martin Electronics & Missiles, Orlando, FL, and Karen Bachmann, TRC, Tampa, FL.
• Notes from Networking Lunch: "Making Ethical Choices on the Job": table hosted by Dan Voss, Lockheed Martin Electronics & Missiles.