STC Reach for the Stars, Member-Get-a-Member Campaign
STC Talking Points
- STC connects you to like-minded professionals.
- STC is the #1 organization that brings all parties involved in the technical communication profession together.
- Your fellow technical communicators can help with solutions to challenges that you experience in your work.
- Network and hear about jobs — find employees — from STC members who you know.
- Members get discounts on educational programs, such as live web seminars…and convention registration.
- Receive a subscription to Intercom, a ten times a year magazine that is an industry standard.
- Take advantage of ongoing educational programs and increased knowledge of products, skills, and requirements throughout all aspects of the technical communication profession.
- SIG members share common expertise, interests, and lessons learned with each other. Interests may be based on work function (for example, management, contracting, usability, information design, etc.) or on industry focus (scientific, environmental, single- sourcing).
- STC has more than 125 chapters (25 outside the U.S.) and 21 SIGs that offer opportunities for meeting both face-to-face with STC members in your geographic community and virtually with members in your particular areas of professional interest.
- Your dues entitle you to membership in one chapter and one SIG; however, many members want to be involved in several SIGs reflecting their interests and responsibilities. And some members choose to belong to more than one chapter at a small additional charge.
- Many chapters hold regularly scheduled meetings, sponsor local competitions, have a host website, and publish a member newsletter. A portion of your dues supports the activities of chapters.
- STC’s annual conference, the Technical Communication Summit, is the world’s largest gathering of technical communicators. It offers a massive amount of practical and instructive information, as well as new resources relevant to every aspect of the field. The value of what’s presented from the podium and in workshops is compounded by who you can meet and talk with between the sessions, during refreshment breaks, and at social events.
