Webby Award Winners Announced

Winners of this year's Webby Awards were announced today. Here are a few highlights from the Web category:

Best Visual Design - Function

• Webby Award Winner: TED.com
• People's Voice Winner: Apple

Charitable Organizations - Nonprofit

• Webby Award Winner: Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster
• People's Voice Winner: Kiva.org -- Loans that Change Lives

Cultural Institutions

• Webby Award Winner: Design for the Other 90%
• People's Voice Winner: Smithsonian Education

Science

• Webby Award Winner: Nature.com
• People's Voice Winner: NASA's Earth Observatory
  

See the complete list of winners.

Advanced Registration for the Summit Continues

Advanced registration for this year’s Technical Communication Summit continues through May 23. For additional information about the annual conference and messages from the host chapter, check out the conference wiki.

Other sites of interest:

http://www.gophila.com/
http://www.uwishunu.com/
http://philadelphia.metblogs.com/links/

April At-a-Glance Photo Revealed

This month's At-a-Glance Photo Contest featured "12151791," a two-story sculpture located in the main lobby of the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum.

The sculpture is titled "12151791" to recall the date of the First Amendment's ratification. Read more about the sculpture and the museum here.

Congratulations to this month's winner. To learn who that winner is, visit the STC Chicago website.

Join in the race to win!

Renew your STC membership and help STC Chicago win four free registrations (valued at $895 each) to the 2008 Technical Communication Summit. See where we stand in the race to win. Renew your membership today!

All STC Chicago members who renew before 3/31 will be entered in a drawing to win a complimentary pass to the conference courtesy of STC Chicago. Let's win this race and add an additional four free passes to the mix!

At-a-Glance Photo Identified

This month's At-a-Glance Photo Contest featured a photo of the lobby of the Rookery Building.

To learn more about the Rookery, how it got its name, and why Frank Lloyd Wright was asked to redesign the lobby in 1905, click here.

Many of you sent in the correct answer this month but, alas, we can only have one winner. Who was the first to respond with the correct answer? Check our website for details.

Overcoming Myths about Creativity

View Upload your own

Thanks to Poplabs for sharing. First saw this on Communication Nation. The presentation does a good job of showing and telling. You'll find a little bit of creative spelling here and there, but the graphics are great. Lots of good food for thought. Enjoy!

The Content Wrangler Community

Scott Abel just announced his new social network for content professionals.

This, from his blog:

The Content Wrangler Community is the new social network dedicated to people who value content as a business asset, worthy of being effectively managed. This is the place where technical communicators, medical and science writers, marketing pros, online community managers, document engineers, information architects, localization and translation pros, taxonomists, bloggers, documentation and training managers, and content creators of all types hang out. It’s much more than a blog. It’s a place to join your peers, to share, to collaborate, to contribute, to find the information you need.

Learn more about it here.

Networking Opportunities We Love

Check out the revamped WindyBits.com. It's an excellent resource for tech-savvy Chicagoans interested in learning about local networking opportunities. You'll find the WindyBits RSS feed on our blog. See below.

Thursdays @ STC Chicago will appear on the WindyBits event calendar each month. I posted our March 6th event to the calendar just two days ago, and we've already received positive feedback from people who first learned about our networking event via the feed. Long live RSS!

Identify that Chicago Scene!

Now we’ve gone and done it. We’ve stumped everyone by featuring a relatively new building in this month’s photo contest.

February’s STC Chicago At-a-Glance photo quiz featured the north façade of the University of Chicago's Gerald C. Ratner Athletics Center. Read more about architect César Pelli's innovative design here.

We didn't have a winner this month, but we’ll have another quiz in next month’s At-a-Glance eDigest. So be sure to try again!

At-a-Glance Photo Contest Clue

So far, we haven't received any correct responses to this month’s At-a-Glance photo quiz. Not to worry. We’ll provide a clue. Take another look at the photo appearing in February’s At-a-Glance eDigest. Now, think: Hyde Park athletes frequent here.

Send an email with your reply to contest@stc-chicago.org. The first person to correctly identify the building featured in the photo will win an STC coffee mug. You’ll have until 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 9, to respond. Have a great weekend and good luck!

Contestants are eligible to win only one prize within any 12-month period. We will notify the winner via email and post the winner's name on our website. The correct answer will be posted on the STC Chicago blog.