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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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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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On April 7th, Ryan Pollack shared his experiences about working as a tech writer in Shanghai. For more information about the program, see www.stcaustin.org/events-mainmenu-2/1-chapter-meetings/251-04-09.

You can find the presentation at www.stcaustin.org/images/stories/techwrinchina.pdf.