Keeping pace with members: the re-engineering (transformation) of STC

ABSTRACT

The 2004 SIGDOC conference deals with the "implications of making communication design a systematic process of specification, creation, management, and evolution--in short, an engineering approach." Over the past three years, and more intensely, over the past 12 months or so, the STC board of directors has been using a similar approach to transform the Society for Technical Communication to an organization more responsive to the diverse and changing needs of its diverse and changing members and more able to take advantage of changing technology to meet those needs. The transformation is far from finished and far from concrete in its processes--but we are on the path and after months of members questioning, "why transform," the queries are now of the "how" variety. The presentation by STC immediate past president Thea Teich at the SIGDOC Diana Award luncheon will cover why and how STC is transforming, and why and how it will continue to be even more deserving of this Diana Award when its transformation is complete.