YES! It’s completely true! We still have a few copies of the STC Atlanta cookbook Fixin’ to Eat: Some South for Your Mouth for sale. They are $12, and we’ll ship them to you for free.

Featured Recipes

Check out some of the great recipes from this cookbook. Order your copy and try them today!

Metadata Minestrone Soup (it’s all about the content), submitted by Mirhonda “Marmalade” Studevant. The soup is chock full of various vegetables, tomatoes, spinach  and beans for a delightful winter meal. Serve the soup with crusty bread and share with crusty technical communicators.

Sweet Potato WIKI, a place where your taste buds can collaborate. This yummy dish, submitted by Judy Glick-Smith, combines mashed sweet potatoes with flavor enhancing ingredients to bring out the sweet in sweet potatoes. The casserole is topped with nuts and brown sugar to complete the definition. Much too fancy to call ‘em “yams!”

Search and Replace Chili has a little extra white space thrown in. While the dish starts with Wick Fowler’s 2-Alarm Chili Mix, you soon find that you search and replace the package instructions  with such items as chicken for the ground beef, great northern beans for more white space and Poblamo chili for punctuation. Mike Hughes submitted this recipe and tells us the dish looks awful, tastes good; just the opposite of lipstick on a pig.

Oreo Balls is our featured recipe and is perfect for technical writers juggling many balls at work. This yummy concoction, submitted by Claudia Ludlow, is a rich, chocolately treat for your mouth with the full taste of Double Stuffed Oreos. Crushed Oreos are augmented with cream cheese and more chocolate and rolled into balls. These are also good for style enforcers who see everything in black and white.

Job Description:
Contract Designers will be required to evaluate existing leader-led
course material for appropriate conversion to eLearning; or for design
of new courses from references and Subject Matter Expert (SME) input.
Solid front-end and task analysis skills will be employed to determine
appropriate design plans for each project.
High-end eLearning experience is required for the design and
development
tasks of converting course material. Excellent work ethic,
self-starter,
attention to details and attendance are crucial.
Candidate must have experience with Adobe Presenter, Captivate and
Flash.
Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal
supervision and have the ability to manage several projects at once.

Skills Inventory

1) Web-based training design & development Expert Required
2) MS Office Suite Expert Required Expert Required
3) Info Map/DocuTools/Theory/Concept Expert Required Expert Required
4) Instructional Design Theory/Application Expert Expert Required
5) Writing skills Expert Required
6) Graphic Design Intermediate Desired
7) Paint Shop Pro/Photoshop Intermediate Desired
8) Adobe Presenter Intermediate Required
9) Flash Intermediate Required
10) Captivate Intermediate Required

If you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a change
please send me your resume ASAP, even if we have spoken recently about
a
different position. If you do respond via e-mail please include a
daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates,
time
is of the essence, so please respond ASAP. Pyramid is a global IT
Consulting company with over 30 Fortune 500 customers.

Ron
Senior Executive Resourcing
Pyramid Consulting, Inc.
SEI-CMMI Level 3
office: 678.514.3523| fax: 678.840.2109
Email:
USA | UK | India

For our June meeting, we’re hosting Arroxane Eber, president of the Lone Star chapter, for an engaging presentation on how to keep cool during difficult moments in the workplace and to use our communication skills to defuse tension.

Note: We will hold our annual business meeting from 6:30-6:45.

Details

Thursday, June 3 (note the event is on a Thursday this month)

6:30-8:00
Free for members; $10 for non-members
Mirant,1155 Perimeter Center West, Atlanta, GA 30338
Parking is free. You can park in the lot or the garage.
RSVP for this event

Photo credit: Nhan Khuong

Dear STC Colleagues,

This survey asks about your experiences collaborating with others in the workplace. You will be asked about the different tools you may use, about how often you use these tools, and about whether these tools improve your collaboration.

You can choose not to participate in this research survey. You may also choose not to answer particular questions. Participation is voluntary, and any information you provide is anonymous. No personal information about participants is collected. By clicking START SURVEY NOW, you can begin the process. Feel free to ask any of your workplace colleagues who engage in collaborative activities to complete the survey as well.

Please help Dr. Burnett out by completing the survey and forwarding it on to others where you work.

Every year, the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication awards a scholarship to a junior or senior college student who is pursuing a career in technical communication. We’re now accepting applications for this year’s David C. Leonard scholarship.

If you or someone else you know is interested, you can find out more information on the Scholarship page. Applications will be accepted through March 31, 2010.

Photo credit: Mays Business School

A company that develops a Human Resource Information System (HRIS) for restaurants and retail companies is looking for an Instructional Designer / Trainer.

The client does not have a training department and is looking for a contract Instructional Designer/Trainer to provide those services. The initial engagement will be for several weeks to overhaul the existing courseware, but if the project goes well the contract should be extended indefinitely to create instructor-lead training for new software products and then train clients on new products that the client is launching.

The client is located in Atlanta, GA and Savannah, GA. The SME in charge of the project is in Atlanta, so that is where initial meetings will take place to gather requirements. Work can then be done from a home office.

While the client is willing to cover travel expenses for non-local candidates, candidates within an easy drive of either Atlanta or Savannah will receive first consideration.

They are also looking for someone with prior experience with a related product, so you MUST have experience with one or more of the following to be considered: Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.

Requirements

• Current experience designing courseware for stand-up training (Required)
• Current experience as a stand-up trainer (Required)
• Prior experience with one or more of the following: Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems (Absolutely Required)
• Experience as a Courseware Developer / Trainer for retail companies or restaurants a major plus
• Willing and able to travel nationwide to do onsite training (Required)

Notes

• Authorized US workers only.
• Questions? Call us at 866-302-5774 x201
• We don’t have a published bill rate for this position, so be prepared to tell us your 1099 bill rate during the initial phone screen.

To be considered, send your resume AND a short summary of how your experience matches each of the job requirements to JackMolisani@ProspringStaffing.com

She notes:

The purpose of the review is to identify barriers on the page that would prevent someone who has a disability�or who is using an assistive technology�from using or understanding the content on the web page.

Because the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) are pretty extensive, and because there�s no tool that will automatically identify all the accessibility barriers in a web page, I use a variety of tools to help me figure out where the barriers are and what�s causing them.

The tools Angela references are all useful for assessing accessibility for technical documents, as well (though as she points out, these tools are poor substitute for testing your documents with users with disabilities).

Read more on AngelaColter.com

You are looking for a challenging position in a growing, modern company with an employee-centered approach. You would like to work in a company who rewards staff for performance coupled with passion and innovative thinking, and who makes a point of creating a casual and positive work atmosphere where employees can be productive.

Large company involved with many different products and services worldwide. Position is located in Alpharetta, GA. This opportunity may become a temp to hire position. Responsibilities Coordinating media relations activities On an as needed basis, the position will provide support and promotion of new business wins, press events…