The election season for the open 2010 STC Director, Secretary, and Nominating Committee seats has officially begun! The candidate pages are up, and within that subset of STC Notebook you can ask the candidates the hard-hitting questions about their take on STC issues that are on your mind. Take advantage of this, as it will ensure you vote for the people who most resonate with how you feel the STC should be functioning!
If you do ask questions, please post what you asked to STC Ideas so we can all see the questions being posed to the candidates!
I’ve asked the following questions of all candidates. I think no matter the position, they all should be in a position to answer these from their point of view and sphere of involvement.
- Question: From many discussions in many different channels, it sounds like 2010-11 is going to be a period of winning back members’ trust, faith, and in some cases, their actual membership. What improvements, changes, or plans do you have for your role that will positively affect members?
- Question: One big concern of mine is that of transparency into member-facing Society-level initiatives. It was this lack of transparency that caused me to create STCIdeas. What steps will you take to further bring transparency to Society initiatives and matters that involve members?
- Question: What is your position regarding STC’s use of social media, and how do you see it being used going forward both within the Society and publicly on the web?
- Question: What changes would you advocate making to improve Society/Member communication?
- Question: One concern we’ve been hearing from many is that STC isn’t relevent to younger technical communicators… that STC isn’t progressive or innovative enough to suit their needs. How do you respond to this and what–if anything–would you change about how STC recruits and retains members in order to address this concern?
- Question: What is your position regarding technical communicator certification? What–if any–types of certification do you see appropriate for STC to endorse or provide?
And the following question went to Director and Secretary candidates:
- Question: Susan Burton, in her Nov 10 blog post (http://notebook.stc.org/exec-direct-blogging-with-susan-burton), said that “the board always speaks with one voice”. What does this mean to you? Do you think “speaking with one voice” will affect the decisions you make? Do you feel comfortable carrying the board’s voice even if you disagree with the message?
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Just to clarify:
Candidates responses to questions will be posted to the election site on each individual candidate’s page as responses from the candidates are received. Candidates are not required to answer all questions posed to them. You may access the election pages at: http://notebook.stc.org/2010-election/.
Candidate responses will not be posted to this page.
Bill,
Would you please make sure that this information is clear on the Ning site?
Thanks!
Done!