2005 Newsletter archive

December (full)

Invitation to an informal meeting on 8th December 2005; Southern Communicator available online; ISTC to take over 5360 syllabus; Oxford Reference Online; New IASIG moderator; Volunteer required to compile Events lists.

November (full)

Midweek dates for Conference 2006; Direct Debit for 2006 subscriptions; Results of the ISTC Awards 2005; Marking up copy to British Standards; SfEP Directory 2006 - ingredients for editorial success?; Visions of Science Awards 2005; American English; Semicolons - who needs them?; TechScribe at Developers Group.

October (full)

Membership renewals/upgrades; ISTC on Inland Revenue approved list; Want to write for Communicator in 2006?; New ISTC International representative; Conference 2005 report; New Business Affiliate: Omnilingua; Development Gateway Award 2005; New look for deafness research charity; Book review: Lost for words: The mangling and manipulating of the English language by John Humphrys.

September - Conference 2005 special edition (full)

Vote at AGM by proxy; Conference 2005 timetable; Conference 2005 presentations; Formatting technical documents with MS Word; Research shows diversity in technical communication courses; Standards news.

August (full)

ISTC subscriptions by direct debit; ISTC International Rep sought; New Business Affiliate: PDA; City & Guilds withdraws 5360; IEEE/PCS Conference report.

July (full)

Conference 2005 - last call for papers; Awards close end of July; New Business Affiliate: APT Transtelex plc; DfES national careers guide.

June (full)

London area group; New templates based on BS ISO/IEC 18019:2004; Call for Conference speakers; Book review of: Media relations measurement: determining the value of PR to your company's success; New collection of essays from tekom; Pursue your rights (using the Small Claims Court); Academic collaboration as a business strategy; ISTC publicity pack; New Business Affiliate - DDS; Election success for Arjuna.

May (full)

Cambridge area group; Members discount on BS ISO/IEC 18019:2004; New education and training guideline; TCeurope Award 2005; An Adobe monopoly?; Is your site attracting spam?; Universal Pen could speed reviews; Visions of Science: final call for entries; Typography website review; Localisation victory for French workers; Doc-To-Help 2005 Beta Software news.

April (full)

Research help needed; Assistive Mouse Adapter; TCeurope AGM and colloquium; What technical writers are up to...; New sponsor for Sign Design Society 2005 Awards; ISTC training and SIG survey results.

March (full)

ISTC Documentation Awards - Call for entrants; Business Affiliates news - Industrial Artworks and Eston Training; Computer security news; Illustration news; What technical writers are up to; TCeurope Colloquium; New words for 2005 - workplace vocabulary.

February (full)

University Challenge; Frame for Mac OS X; Technical Communications at Coventry University; New Media Awards 2005; Visions of Science 2005; INTECOM annual meeting; Forum 2007; Recycling aid for tsunami victims; The write way to a career; Writers' Nexus announces website for would-be authors; VSO: sharing skills and changing lives; PDF and accessibility; Free icons and clipart; Discussion groups/Frame; Font Creator 5.0; Fix Fonts Folder 2.0; Mathematics Multilingual Glossary; Fonts for many languages; IPCC: save lolly in Limmerick; Laptop hazards; Scientific literature: who should pay - author or subscriber?; Software developers survey; Naming your website; Bombproof horse wins title fight; Banished words.

January (full)

Bridge Translation & Publishing Ltd.; Gazelle Training; Reading and the brain; Dictionaries online; The Sarbanes-Oxley Act - will it affect us?; Screensaver as life saver; Browse Happy; Keyloggers - another threat to your security; Acrobat 7.0; AuthorIT releases; Equinux iTranslate; Grammatica 6.0 for Mac released; Mellel 1.8.2; Bangla Linux; QA Distiller and Colourproof; Language Weaver 2.4; Star GRIPS; Jambo OpenOffice; Multilizer; Lingvosoft; LISA news; Nushu not dead; IABC Gold Quill Awards; Information Design Journal + Document Design; Tony Takitani; The death of technical writing?

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