Please join us for our first 2011 Town Hall. We’ll be having a free lunchtime meeting held over conference call. Grab you lunch then dial us up.

We are currently changing our webinar provider, so we’ll be adding call-in information shortly. We wanted to get this post up, so you can save the date.

We’ll have two town hall meetings each month in June, July, and August. We hope you’ll attend all of them!

Please join us for our second June 2011 Town Hall. We’ll be having a free lunchtime meeting held over conference call. Grab you lunch then dial us up.

Check back soon to see the call-in information shortly. Save the date!

We’ll also have two town hall meetings in July and August. We hope you’ll attend all of them!

As a chapter, we are required to have an annual business meeting. This year’s business meeting is scheduled for this FRIDAY, September 17th at 7PM. We will be holding the business meeting in the banquet room of the Sizzler restaurant on 9000 South and State Street in Sandy. Dinner will be on your own, and you don’t need to buy dinner to join us.

In the most important part of this business meeting, the chapter administrative council will present the proposed bylaws for the chapter. Our chapter has never had official bylaws, so this is an important step forward for the chapter.

The proposed bylaws are posted online on the chapter website. You can review them here: http://www.intermountain-stc.org/about/intermountain-chapter-bylaws/

If you are unable to attend the chapter meeting, but would like to submit feedback on the bylaws, please send your feedback to president@intermountain-stc.org and we’ll consider it.

Also, if you are unable to attend, and would like to submit a proxy vote, you can send your vote to me at president@intermountain-stc.org and I’ll submit your vote on your behalf. The question that will be presented to the voting members will be: “Do you vote to accept the Intermountain STC Chapter bylaws as they are currently presented on the chapter Website?” We will then ask for votes in the affirmative, and votes in the negative.

If you have any questions about the process, please don’t hesitate to contact me. You can reach me at the e-mail address I gave above, or you are always welcome to contact me on my cell phone at 801-938-8391.

Thanks for your support of our chapter. We are looking forward to some great programming this fall and winter. If you have any suggestions, as always, let us know.

For our August Town Hall meeting, we are going to start the hour by giving you an overview of the bylaws that we (the Chapter board) are proposing. In the September business meeting, chapter members will be voting to adopt the bylaws for the chapter. This town hall is your opportunity to hear what the bylaws are, and how they will affect you as a chapter member (or as a non-chapter participant in chapter activities).

All are invited to join the town hall (regardless of your location or membership status); chapter members should attend to have an opportunity to provide feedback before the vote actually occurs in September.

We will also discuss details regarding the September business meeting, including the format and how you can participate.

As with all our town halls, the format for this meeting is casual. We will begin the hour discussing the chapter bylaws and business meeting, but we will follow wherever the discussion leads us. Call in with your questions about the topic, or about anything else!

See you on the call! Please register below to get the conference call information, and to let us know you are planning to attend.

Please join the Intermountain Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication for our July Town Hall webinar. This free event is a lunchtime conference call where we will be discussing the topic of technical writer portfolios.

Everybody is welcome to join us; you don’t have to be a member of our chapter, or even live in our area.

Town Hall meetings follow a very relaxed format. Generally we start discussing the specified topic for the month, but we follow where the discussion goes. If you have questions or simply want to interact with other technical communicators, please join us.

Let us know that you are interested in the event by registering for the event using the form below. When you register, you will get an e-mail with a personalized link you can use to join the conference. You’ll also have the option to add the calendar item to your Outlook calendar.

We look forward to talking to you on July 21st!

Attention Intermountain Chapter members!

On September 17, 2010 we will hold our annual business meeting. This annual meeting is required by STC bylaws, and will be a place where we conduct official business of the chapter.

This year, we will hold the business meeting at a the Sizzler restaurant on 9000 South and State Street in Sandy. Everybody is welcome, but only current chapter members will be able to vote on chapter business.

The most important item of business will be adopting new chapter bylaws. We will present these bylaws for a vote at the business meeting.

Please make every effort to attend this meeting, as it is a time that you get to make your voice heard.

More details are available here.

Please join us on Tuesday June 29th for our next phone conference-based Town Hall meeting.

We will discuss Tech Writer Certification, as it was announced at the recent STC Summit conference in Dallas.

Use the form below to reserve your spot, and let us know you’ll be attending:

We are using DimDim as our web conference provider, and technically, things went smoothly with one exception. Apparently you cannot record the phone bridge conversation. If you want to record the meeting, you have to have all your attendees use the VOIP (using headphones and microphones attached to their computer) feature. And if people are connected via VIOP, they cannot be heard on the conference call. So you have to have everybody use either VOIP or phone bridge. For next month, we’ll try to work out some of those kinks so things run even better.

The down side of that glitch is that we didn’t get a recording of today’s meeting. Next month, I’ll use my computer’s microphone to pick up the speaker phone audio, which should at least provide SOME ability to record the call.

Speaking of next month, I’m about to schedule our next town hall. In June we are going to be discussing STC Certification. We’ll talk about what it is, why it matters, and what you need to know. We’ll also have an open forum where you can bring your own questions or comments to the table.

Please remember — you don’t need to be a member of the chapter to join in our conference call (one of our participants today was not a chapter member). This town hall is open to all technical communicators who want to participate.

See you next month. Watch the site for a date and time announcement.

Location:

Walden Park
5425 S. Murray Parkway Ave (1070 W)
Murray, UT (map)

When: Friday, May 21, 6:30PM

Please join us for our May social. We will be having a chapter BBQ at Walden Park in Murray. The chapter will provide meat, buns, drinks, and utensils. The rest of the food will be pot-luck.

All are invited. You do not need to be a member to attend. Please invite your friends and co-workers that have an interest in technical communication. The event is free for everybody, and we hope you bring your family. The park has a playground, BBQ pits, electricity, and sand volleyball.

Please RSVP using the link below:

http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=YDLUROXEVXELNUKMVDNR

If you have questions, please call chapter president Paul Pehrson at 801-938-8391.