Cité internationale universitaire de paris - Maison internationaleThis year's STC France Chapter Annual Conference was held on Friday 14 March 2008 at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. Thanks to our attendees, sponsors, speakers and volunteers for making this such a successful event! The theme of this year's event was "Communicating Europe" and explored the diversity of technical communication in Europe. Two half-day pre-conference workshops were also organized on Thursday 13 March 2008.

Our speaker line-up included leading experts from industry, research, and academia. Sessions explored the creation and management of multilingual content, how to share best practices through Information Mapping®, issues in international usability testing, writing for European audiences, and job skills for succeeding in the European job market, and more [Copies of speaker presentations are now available from the Sessions page]. Our pre-conference workshops provided hands on training on how to share knowledge more effectively with wikis and how to write use cases .

Entrance hall of the Maison internationaleIn addition to this full day of dynamic and interactive sessions, there was plenty of networking opportunities and a sponsor showcase where attendees could meet our event sponsors and learn about the products, solutions, and services they have to offer.