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APCOMTEC Newsletter August 2007
The Portuguese member organisation APCOMTEC has started publishing
a bi-annual newsletter. Read the first edition here
(PDF 1MB)
7th European Colloquium for user-friendly
product information: Integrated Technical Communication
19 March 2007, Brussels: On 19th March, delegates from societies
for Technical Communicators in 6 European countries met in Brussels with
representatives of professional associations in other fields: engineers,
content management professionals, information architects, usability experts,
terminologists, indexers and localizers. Around 30 experts gathered for the 7th
European colloquium for user-friendly product information, organised by
TCeurope, that was held in the meeting centre of CEN/CENELEC, the European
standards bodies.
Read more here
TCeurope Award 2006 bestowed to Alan Fisk
4 October 2006: The fourth
TCeurope award that has been bestowed since the foundation of TCeurope,
went to the UK, the country with the longest standing tradition
in Technical Communication as a profession and, at the same time,
the country with the oldest of the TCeurope member organisations:
the ISTC, Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators. Alan
Fisk, member of the ISTC board for 15 years and currently Vice-President
of the ISTC for the second time, received the award
during the gala dinner of the annual ISTC conference in Maidenbower.
Read more here.
New member organisation in Portugal
Founded in August 2006, Associação Portuguesa para a Comunicação Técnica was recently admitted to membership. TCeurope now integrates 9 organisations with members in more than 11 European countries. APCOMTEC aims at developing, promoting and representing Technical Communication within Portugal. Most of the currently 30 members work in the telecommunications area. Gabriel Rebelo, initiator, co-founder and President of APCOMTEC, states that Technical Communication in Portugal is a relatively new area, with little national awareness. The members of APCOMTEC are highly committed and motivated in further developing their know-how, sharing and actively engaging with other members and expect to broaden the field of Technical Communication within Portugal. TCeurope supports the younger and smaller societies through exchange of information, knowledge and experience as well as cooperation in joint projects.
Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication
| 21 March 2006, Sophia Antipolis: TCeurope was represented in the symposium by Hanna Risku. Read the abstract of her presentation "Facilitating Knowledge Construction through Information Technology: Beyond the Things that Make Us Dumb" (PDF 79 KB) |
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TCeurope helps to develop European guideline
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20 March 2006, Sophia Antipolis: TCeurope is helping with
the development of a European guideline on user education for mobile
terminals and e-services. The European Telecommunication Standards
Institute (ETSI) invited TCeurope to hold the 6th European Colloquium
for User-friendly Product Information together with ETSI in
French Sophia Antipolis where the draft was discussed intensely.
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5th European Colloquium for user-friendly product information
14 March 2005, Brussels: Technical Documentation in the enlarged EU: First round-up on the organisational, technical and economic impacts. Read the colloquium proceedings: (PDF 135 KB)
EIDC 2005
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The European Information Development Conference on 9 and 10 November 2005 in Wiesbaden, Germany, was a great success. Read the summary: PDF (6KB) |
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TCeurope Award 2005 bestowed to Carl-Heinz Gabriel
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November 2005: This year, the TCeurope award was bestowed to Carl-Heinz Gabriel, expert in standards and directives. He received the award in the EIDC 2005 in Wiesbaden Germany. Read more: PDF (6 KB) |
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New distance learning course on user support
The University of Twente offers a unique opportunity for professionals in the field to get acquainted with the theory and research on user support. A distance learning course gives you an overview of the latest and most influential theories behind user instructions, manuals, help desks and user groups. The aim of the course is help you understand how users make sense of instructions, and to help you to design and test more effective and efficient user support. The course will be taught by professor Michaël Steehouder and colleagues.
Detailed information is available at
http://cs.graduate.utwente.nl. Contact information: techcom@gw.utwente.nl
Technical Communication International
Does the reputation of technical communication reflect its actual significance? Are technical editors well trained enough to perform their important tasks adequately ? What are their salaries ? What are the conditions set by the national legal framework ? What are the prospects of technical communication ? This collection, for the first time, puts the answers to these and other questions into an international perspective. Competent authors offer a survey of the status and prospects of technical communication for 17 countries in Europe, Asia, America and Australia.
Read the book review (PDF 8 KB).
To order the publication, use the ordering form
(PDF 78 KB)
5th European colloquium for user-friendly product information
14 March 2005, Brussels: "Technical Documentation
in the enlarged EU:
First round-up on the organisational, technical
and economic impacts"
Read the summary (PDF
14 KB)
Colloquium presentations:
Jens Karsten (FEDSA):
Language requirements in EC law - A Consumer's
Perspective
PDF (149 KB)
Ian Fraser (European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry):
Manufacturer's
instructions - an essential part of the machine
PDF (115
KB)
Alfredo Spagna (EUATC):
Defining translation quality at European
level - the first European Quality Standard for Translation Service
Providers
PDF (152 KB)
Josep Bonet (European Commission, DG Translation):
Twenty languages
and counting: How Commission translators keep pace with an expanding
Union
PDF (509 KB)
Marta Grané Franch (Termcat, Centre of Catalan Terminology):
Catalan:
A language for technical documentation in Europe (The opprtunities
of multilinguism for non-official EU languages)
PDF
(176 KB)
Rudy Tirry (Bowne Global Solutions Belgium):
Trends and technology
in the globalization industry (an educated guess about what the
future will bring to the world of localization)
ZIP
(900 KB)
Annual General Meeting 2005
13 March 2005, Brussels: New board, new publication, new
member organisation
Read the summary (PDF
12 KB)
European Information Development Conference 2004
10 / 11 November 2004: The second European Information
Development Conference took place in Wiesbaden, Germany. - Read
the summary
PDF (58 KB)
Are
you interested in submitting a proposal for the
EIDC 2005?
If you want us to put you on the mailing list
for the Call for Papers,
send us an e-mail.
4th European colloquium for user-friendly product information
29 March 2004: The "SecureDoc" guideline was presented in Brussels to the European Commission, consumer organisations and the industry. - Read the summary PDF (35 KB)
New member organisations - New President
27 March 2004: TCeurope has two more member organisations: The Swedish and the Italian associations adhered. Hanna Risku was elected President. - Summary of the AGM in Brussels PDF (24 KB)
Italian organisation for technical documentation founded!
5 December 2003: TecDoc-Net information day and the foundation
COM&TEC in Bologna. - Summary in Italian PDF
(10KB)
Quality goals in technical documentation
27 November 2003: Presentation in the TecDoc-Net information
day in Bilbao
PDF (46 KB)
European Information Development Conference 2003
19 / 20 November 2003: The first European Information Development Conference took place in Wiesbaden, Germany.Read the summary PDF (18 KB)
First TCeurope Technical Communication Award bestowed to Brigitte Beuttenmüller
24 May 2003: The Award was bestowed for the first time in Stuttgart.
PDF
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Who is doing TC in Europe?
April 2003: Up to date information on the number of technical writers, their educational
background and the current situation of vocational education and
training PDF
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Third European colloquium for TC
24 March 2003: This year's European colloquium
in Brussels had two themes: "Vocational education
and training" and "User-friendly instruction manuals for
technical consumer goods" PDF
(35,1 KB)
European projects started
November
2002: The projects TecDoc-Net and SecureDoc started both
PDF
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2nd European colloquium for user-friendly product information
25 March 2002: An inspiring round-table on barrier-free access to technical
information took place in Brussels PDF
(25,7 KB)
TCeurope founded
24 March 2002: The European umbrella organisation for technical communicators
was founded in Brussels PDF
(19,4 KB)
Constitution for European umbrella organisation ratified
8 December 2001: Delegates of six European organisations for TC met in Wiesbaden, Germany PDF (4,95 KB)
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