Theresa Cameron has been elected President of INTECOM at its annual meeting in Montréal. INTECOM is a society of associations of technical communicators, with members in Europe, New Zealand, and North America. STC is a member of INTECOM.

Theresa is also a member of the STC France Chapter and was active on our board until a few weeks ago as Membership Manager and newsletter editor. We'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Theresa on becoming President and we look forward to her leadership of INTECOM. The STC France Chapter much appreciated her energy and ideas.

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The LISA Forum Europe, December 8-11 in Dublin, will exclusively focus on business globalization standards and the costs of operating without them. LISA have just released a call for speakers. The list of the Forum's main topics is given below. For further information, contact Michael Anobile, LISA Managing Director. www.lisa.org

You can download the speaker proposal form at: http://www.lisa.org/SpeakerProposal.812.0.html

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Dans le cadre du recrutement des apprentis et stagiaires en rédaction technique pour la rentrée prochaine, la cellule de relations avec les entreprises de l'UFR EILA (Université Paris 7 - Diderot) souhaite proposer un nouveau mode de recrutement : le job dating. Cette session de job dating se déroulera le mardi 8 juillet 2008 à partir de 9h30, elle concerne le recrutement d'étudiant en Master 2 pro CDMM et en Licence Pro rédacteur technique.

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Thinking of a career as a technical communicator, translator or writer?

The LEA program at University Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand) is now accepting applications for its two-year Masters degree in Languages and Technical Communication (LCT). Applications for Fall 2008 must be received by 2 September 2008.

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The STC France Chapter Annual General Meeting was held on Monday 19 May 2008 at FIAP Jean Monnet, 30 rue Cabanis, 75014 Paris.

We began with a champagne cocktail to celebrate our successful year. This was followed by a review of the year and presentation of the results of our recent leadership elections. We ended the evening with a short presentation from our guest speaker Alison Reynolds, followed by an open discussion.

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During the conference we look beyond the boundaries of our profession. Presentations will be given by speakers from varied disciplines such as instruction technology, training, meteorology, engineering and cartography; who will tell us how they go about designing information that people can optimally use. The final session consists of a panel discussion, with all seven presenters answering questions from the audience.

We start at 09:45 hours and end at around 16:15 , after which there is ample time for drinks and informal discussion.

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