STC France Chapter Community
Already a France Chapter Member?
Are you already a Member of STC France but due to geography, availability or something other you are unable to attend chapter meetings or present yourself to the community? We want to hear from you! And there’s a number of ways you can be heard.
Our Ning Community
You know about our France Chapter community on Ning? No? Get on over there! Create a Ning account and take advantage of our multi-channel social site. (Don’t stop with just our group. Ning has thousands of thriving communities of all kinds. Who knows what you’ll find.)
Ning includes:
- Your own profile
- Your own blog and article commenting abilities
- Discussion forums
- Photo galleries
- Video uploading
- and more
Attention! STC France chapter will be officially dropping it’s old Yahoo Groups group at the end of March 2009. We recommend you get hooked up in Ning ASAP.
Publish Yourself via the Newsletter or Web Site
STC France has two main publishing channels: our France Connexion newsletter, and our web site.
Submit a Short Article for the Monthly Newsletter
Not everybody has time to write well-groomed essays. We know this well. That’s why there are such things as newsletters. The France Chapter’s newsletter, France Connexion, goes out monthly and the president is always looking for worthy filler.
Take a few moments to tell us about yourself and we will share it with other members in a future issue of the France Connexion. Your introduction can be factual, technical or creative. For example:
- send a CV
- write a biographical paragraph or two
- summarize your technical interests and competencies
- share ways in which your membership of STC has helped your career and/or develop your professional network
- write a short story that reflects your impressions of the industry or your situation
- assemble a photo gallery or make a video and send us the details and link
- invent a recipe or a device, for example, for an easy/easier life
This list is not exhaustive. If you have a different idea, please develop it and send it to us!
This is your chance to let us know who you are and what skills you have to offer the community. We look forward to hearing from you!
See submission information at bottom.
Submit an Essay for the Chapter Web Site
If you are one of the lucky ones with time on your hands, the France Chapter web site has a specific Essays channel for publishing quality copy of varying genre and scope. We choose to say “essays” primarily to distinguish the nature of this content from what might otherwise be thought of as general blog blather. We’re not going to wast time with general blog copy here. Using the term a bit loosely, essays can reflect domain expertise/advise, technical trend reports, in-depth reviews of products or books, relevant tutorials and much more.
Essays will come from the France Chapter team when they come from nowhere else, but we know our community is rich with talent and we want you to have the opportunity to show that’s true. If you would like to submit an essay-caliber article for publication on the chapter site, keep the following in mind to help make it an easy process:
- Priority is given to chapter members, then international STC members, and then perhaps to non-members who otherwise interact with the France Chapter in some capacity (e.g., sponsors, partners, educators/students, etc.).
- Give us a ping via the contact form (use the Web Site option in the Nature of your inquiry field) and indicate what you want to submit and how long you think it will take to get done. A few notes about topic and scope is fine. This is useful, because if it turns out there’s several related ideas submitted, we might plan to have a series on a specific subject or domain. (This is also the first filter for catching what might not be appropriate for the essays channel.) Either way, someone will reply personally to start dialog on the activity.
- There is no editing process (per se) in effect; we don’t have the manpower for it. Conceivably we could evolve to that if there was enough submissions and volunteer interest to form a review team, but for now we keep it simple and give contributing authors the benefit of the doubt that their copy is tip-top. Submissions will be considered finished upon receiving them; only cursory reviews for “major blunders” will be given.
- Be prepared to provide a headshot photo of yourself, which will be used in the publication. The photo must be square dimensions, at least 80×80 pixels (we will scale it down from there as necessary).
- Authors who contribute more than one (1) essay over time will be invited to participate as a regular author, and be given an “author” account in the France Chapter’s web content management system. You will then be able to draft and add new essays within the roles management workflow, as well as directly edit any of your previous essay contributions should they happen to need it.
Submissions
Whether sending web copy or something for the newsletter, you must first contact us. Note you must select different options from the contact form’s Nature of your inquiry field depending on whether you are interested in the newsletter or the web site:
- Newsletter inquires should select Newsletter option.
- Web article submission inquiries should select the Web Site option.