Society for Technical Communication

University of Minnesota - Student Chapter

Resources



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Conferences
  • MinneWebCon is a full-day, three-track, continuing education conference for Web professionals. This conference delivers a practical blend of technical and creative information from industry practitioners and educators directly to University staff, students, and colleagues from other higher education institutions (as well as from other noncommercial and commercial areas of web practice).
Desktop Publishing
Dreamweaver
Web design software from Adobe.
Flash
Flash is a software product from Adobe to create animation on webpages.
  • Adobe Flash support center for tutorials and articles
FrameMaker
Adobe FrameMaker is an authoring and publishing tool
  • Frameusers is a list server for FrameMaker users
  • Framescript provides FrameMaker scripting automation and customization
Graphic Design
HTML
Open Source
Freely distributed software
  • Sourceforge.net allows users to download and develop free open-source software
Professional Training Workshops
A fee is typically charged but there may be a lower student rate available.
Software Training
These providers offer a wide range of training opportunities on a broad selection of software systems.
  • www.lynda.com offers a huge number of training tutorials online for a reasonable fee of $25.00 per month with other options available for longer contracts. They cover all the Adobe and Microsoft products along with non-software package specific training classes.
University of Minnesota
U of MN free and short courses
  • UTTC - Free software courses for faculty, staff, and students from the University Technology Training Center.
  • Free to CLA students only - The College of Liberal Arts offers software courses to undergraduate students.
U of MN Tutorials
  • Microsoft E-Learning Courses - These Microsoft classes cover the Microsoft Office Suite and require access from a Windows-based computer using Internet Explorer.
U of MN Credited Course
Usability
  • Boxes and Arrows is a blog that discusses design, frequently with a user-centric viewpoint
  • Hot Tub is a blog from Hotstudio, a people-centered design studio
  • MNteractive is a local community of user experience practitioners. They also have started a UX book club.
  • Slashdot aggregates news items from across the net and allows searching by keyword. This link uses the keyword "Usability" to bring together information for this category.

Organizations

These are professsional organizations with ties to technical communications.

Society for Technical Communication
Other Professional Organizations
ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications (SIGDOC)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
American Society of Indexers (ASI)
American Translators Association (ATA)
Association for Business Communication (ABC)
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
Association for Women in Communications (AWC)
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
Council of Science Editors (CSE)
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Professional Communication Society (IEEE/PCS)
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
International Communication Association (ICA)
International Digital Enterprise Alliance (IDEAlliance)
International Society of Logistics (SOLE)
International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA)
Media Communications Association - International
National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC)
The National Association of Science Writers (NASW)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)
Usability Professional's Association (UPA)