Upcoming Events for Jobseekers and Proactive Tech Pubs Professionals

Synergistech encourages jobseekers, and anyone else hoping to stay abreast of changes to our profession, to attend these local events:

• Northern California Technical Communication Competition (Touchstone) Call for Entries — the 2008-2009 competition needs entrants and judges in its technical publications, technical art, and online technical communication categories. The deadline for entries is September 27, 2008. Download the () flier.
• Implementing Structured Authoring — a Two-Day DITA/XML Intensive, Berkeley and San Jose, September, 2008 ()
• Sun Certified Java Associate (SCJA) Study Group, coming soon
• An Introduction to Developer Documentation, coming soon
• Society for Technical Communication (STC) meetings — East Bay, Berkeley, Sacramento, San Francisco, North Bay, and Silicon Valley chapters (ordered by meeting date)
• Information Architecture and Content Management for Technical Communicators — free online course for STC members

We welcome hearing about other events, incentives, or similar opportunities you consider relevant to Bay Area technical communicators.

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