Professor Lennie Irvin at San Antonio College is looking for local Technical Communicators to assist his students on a project investigating the field of technical communication. If you decide to participate, your time commitment will be minimal. The student will contact you requesting a brief 15-20 minute interview to ask you about what you do and your perspective on the profession.

Read more: Service Opportunity Helping Technical Writing Students

The User Assistance Skills and Technologies Survey is now open. Please contribute your experiences.  This popular survey is designed to provide our community with a snapshot of the skills and technologies we most value in our software development work. The results will be publicly posted on the WritersUA web site.

Read more: User Assistance Skills and Technologies Survey

Each year, STC Austin conducts a survey to understand compensation and benefits in Austin. The survey is open to all technical communicators in the Austin area, whether current STC members or not.

On Tuesday, May 11, 2010, Wanda Hill presented the survey results—with additional analysis—at the May STC Austin chapter meeting.

Read more: Salary Survey Results Available