Kudos Corner: Member Achievements
"Kudos
are good for our collective karma."
—Mark Hall, Signature contributor
This new column acknowledges member achievements. We're looking for a volunteer to seek, gather, and write member news, such as awards, certifications, and advancements. If you're interested, please contact the editor at stcsignature@yahoo.com.
Members Win APEX Awards
Several
San Diego Chapter members earned the Award of Excellence for entries in
the Fourteenth Annual Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) Competition.
According to the competition brochure, APEX 2002 awards were based on
excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and success in achieving
communications effectiveness.
Bonni Graham, CEO of Manual Labour in San Diego, and her staff writers, Cathy Concors and Heather Caliri, won the award in the Hardware and Software Manuals category for the Data Tree for the Desktop Documentation Set.
Bonni and Heather were also awarded for an entry in the Manual and Report Writing category, the TREO 10 User Manual.
"We're very excited about our APEX awards," said Bonni. "I'm proud of the team for creating exemplary manuals and equally proud of the positive customer feedback we receive."
Manual Labour has won awards in past APEX competitions for their Web site, marketing materials, and manuals created for Nissan North America, EDVision Corporation (now owned by Scantron), Kenwood USA, and Animal Resource Management. They've also won STC local and international publication competition awards.
Lana Walker-Helmuth, a Temecula information designer, won the APEX award for an Intranet site she developed while working for San Diego City Schools. "It's wonderful to have communications professionals look at your work and judge it as excellent. I encourage more technical communicators to enter next year's competition!"
For competition information, visit http://www.apexawards.com.
San Diego Locals Win Touchstone Competition
The San Diego area is home to several winners in Touchstone, the Northern California Technical Communication Competition. Visit the competition Web site at http://www.stc-touchstone.org/2001.
Listed here are local winners. Congratulations to all!
Online Communication
Category 1 Help
Excellence
Materials
Studio Reflex and Reflex Plus
Accelrys, Inc.
Catherine Nanz, Vanessa Hoy, Kathleen Kearney Moore
Intuit TurboTax
EasyStep FAQs for TY00
Intuit
Michael Tallman, Kerri De Rosier
Category 2 Demonstrations
Distinguished
Intuit ProSeries
Evaluation CD for TY00
Intuit
Mike Walter, Bruce Meyer
Achievement
Online Quicken
2002 Show Me Videos
Intuit
Scott Caplener
Wireless
Internet Launchpad (WIL)
Qualcomm, Incorporated
Gail Dana, Steve Wendt
Open Your
Eyes
Qualcomm, Incorporated
Gail Dana, Steve Wendt
Category 4 Tutorials/Training
Distinguished
Intuit TurboTax
Deluxe videos for TY00
Intuit
Bruce Meyer, Kristina Cobarrubia, Mike Walker
Category
5 Books
Excellence
Intuit ProSeries
Electronic User's Guide for TY00
Intuit
Jan Harris, Wayne Boeck
HP PhotoSmart
Onscreen User's Guide
Write on the Edge, Inc.
Nikki P. Kraft, Carolyn Passig Jensen, Alecia Hunter
Technical Publication Winners
Category
3 Quick Reference Guides
Excellence
ProSeries
Evaluation QuickStart Card for TY00
Intuit
Wayne Boeck, Jan Harris, Kerri De Rosier
Intuit ProSeries
QuickStart Guide for TY00
Intuit
Wayne Boeck, Jan Harris, Kerri De Rosier
Solutions
Mixing Guides
Noritsu America Corporation
Clark McDuell
HP PhotoSmart
1315 Setup Guide
Write on the Edge, Inc.
Suzanne Hosie, Carolyn Passig Jensen, Alecia Hunter
Merit
HP PhotoSmart
100 Setup Guide
Write on the Edge, Inc.
Suzanne Hosie, Carolyn Passig Jensen, Alecia Hunter
HP PhotoSmart
1215/1115 Setup Guide
Write on the Edge, Inc.
Suzanne Hosie, Carolyn Passig Jensen, Alecia Hunter
Category
4 Software Guides
Excellence
Intuit ProSeries
User's Guide for Tax Year 2000
Intuit
Wayne Boeck, Kerri De Rosier, Jan Harris
Quicken Setup
Guide
Intuit
Mary Kaye Polomik
JAMIS open
e-timecard Systems Guide
Portera GC
Mike Mullarkey, Kathleen Pierce
Merit
Workforce
Web User's Guide and Quick Reference
Ericsson Wireless Communications, Inc.
Mary Drobnis, Kitt Medrano, Michael Hecht
Intuit ProSeries
Evaluation Guide for TY00
Intuit
Wayne Boeck, Jan Harris, Kerri De Rosier
Category
5 Hardware/Software Combination Guides
Merit
HP PhotoSmart
100 Photo Printing Guide
Write on the Edge, Inc.
Suzanne Hosie, Lise Porter, Alecia Hunter
HP PhotoSmart
1315 Basics Guide
Write on the Edge, Inc.
Nikki P. Kraft, Carolyn Passig Jensen, Alecia Hunter
Category
7 Non-Computer Equipment Guides
Merit
I-SAGE Kit
Invitrogen Corporation
Darshini Mehta
PurePro Caulobacter
Expression System
Invitrogen Corporation
Anne Chen
Category
18 Documentation Sets
Achievement
VESTA M1
2.2 Documentation Set
Plant Equipment, Inc.
Heather Barry
