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The Society for Technical Communication invites you to contribute your ideas, studies, experience, and expertise at our 2011 Technical Communication Summit, the Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication.

The Summit is scheduled for 15-18 May 2011 in Sacramento, California, USA. Proposals are due by 10:00 AM EDT (GMT-4), Monday, 4 October 2010. See http://notebook.stc.org/call-for-proposals-for-2011-summit-is-now-open/ for more information.

Beginning Monday August 16, STC Carolina will utilize only the announcement listserv to keep members updated on chapter events and activities. To make sure you continue to get all of the STC news you need, please subscribe to the announcement listserv, if you are not already getting these announcements. You can subscribe to the announcement listserv here: http://mailman.stc.org/mailman/listinfo/stc-carolina-announce or use the subscribe button on the STC Carolina website, just below the calendar. The discussion listserv will be discontinued on Monday August 16.

We would still love to hear your thoughts, so please consider joining
the STC Carolina LinkedIn page http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=21047 to continue discussions that matter to you. Meanwhile, don?t miss our Twitter feeds and Facebook updates for more exciting events, webinars,
courses, and conferences coming up this year.

The Carolina chapter proudly presents the latest edition of the Carolina Communique, the chapter's award-winning, wiki-based, online newsletter. To read the newsletter online or save the articles as PDF for offline viewing, visit http://newsletter.stc-carolina.org.

Articles in this issue include the following:

• First-Timer’s Experience at the Technical Editing SIG Progression: Editing *Challenges and Opportunities (Dan Riechers)
• Diane Feldman Scholarship Fund Open for Contributions (Meredith Kinder)
• From the Editor's Desk: So Long, Farewell, It's Time to Say Goodbye (Meredith Kinder)
• Linking Up with Words (Kat Hardy)
• Meeting Recap: Open Mic Event (or Improving Presentation Skills Doing Shameless Self-Promotion) (Christina Eftekhar)
• Participating in the STC Carolina Competitions: What's in it for Me? (Sheila Loring)
• President's Message: The Trying Times (Bea Johnson)
• What’s New with STC? (Terry Smith)

For the third consecutive year, Carolina Communiqué, the wiki-based newsletter of the Carolina chapter has received an Award of Excellence in the 2010 APEX awards. Congratulations to the newsletter staff, volunteers, and all authors, on this achievement.

You can find the Carolina Communiqué online at:
http://newsletter.stc-carolina.org

If you have ideas or a completed article, why not get published in an upcoming issue? See the authoring guidelines for details.