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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.

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Last week I attended, with other leaders of STC Austin, the first of three seminars in the Austin Membership Organization Leadership Series, the goal of which is to bring together Austin area member-based organizations for mutual help in sharing strategy, cost-savings, and resources. There's little debate that we all need to improve how we grow membership, retain members, differentiate ourselves, engage members, and leverage social media; the idea here is that we can do all these things better if we don't go it alone.

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STC’s Job Seeker Boot Camp is a FREE program for members who are currently seeking employment or wish to expand their contract work. The Boot Camp includes unlimited access to the STC Career Center, unlimited access to more than a dozen articles written by and for technical communicators with tips and advice on finding a tech comm job, access to audio podcasts by well-known STC recruiters, and the latest STC Salary Survey.

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Our own Anne Gentle has just released a book called Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation. We caught up with Anne to ask her a few questions about her new book.

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