The Salary Database contains wage and employment data for U.S.-based technical writers. Members can access the Salary Database free of charge on the STC website.

MadCap Software and ComponentOne used the 2008 Technical Communication Summit as a platform to announce they would offer discounts on products to STC members. The offer is an exclusive member benefit and not available otherwise. Details on the amount of the discounts and products offered can be found under the Membership tab of STC's homepage on the Web.

After eight years of working on Intercom, the last year as editor, Ed Rutkowski is taking on the new challenge of being the magazine editor at another association. The open editor position at STC will be advertised in the Washington area and through association and publishing channels.

A selection of photos from STC's 55th annual conference held June 1-4 in Philadelphia are now online. Several photographers contributed images including members, staff, and hired photographers. The images and captions may be seen at http://www.stc.org/edu/sessionMaterials.asp.

Learn about new developments in e-learning and see cutting-edge tools and technologies in action at the Chicago e-Learning & Technology Showcase, sponsored by STC Chicago and the Chicago chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement. Hear from industry experts and network with instructional designers, technical writers, trainers, content managers, and media developers. Join us in Chicago on August 20 for this exciting, full-day event. More information can be found at "http://www.stc-chicago.org/portal/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=320".

In 1979, Katherine Lawrence and Marianne Schreiber of Hewlett-Packard first coined the term "glass ceiling" to describe the barriers for career advancement that women face in male-dominated companies. But there is another type of glass ceiling that we don't like to talk much about.

The July/August issue of Intercom has been posted to the STC Web site

With increasing demand for technical products, the technical communication field has grown. What used to be the strict discipline of creating and editing policies and manuals has now exploded into a rich field of communicating in many media as well as performing user analysis, applying usability methods, creating e-learning, and much more.

Menno D.T. de Jong, PhD has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief of Technical Communication, the quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Technical Communication.