Share an original poem (in English) and join in discussion. Or just sit in and listen. For details, contact Mark at nosnivel@netvision.net.il .
Poets writing in English are welcome to attend, read one of their original poems, and receive constructive feedback. (Just-listeners are also welcome.) Meetings are monthly on Zoom. Contact Mark Levinson at nosnivel@netvision.net.il for a Zoom link or to request further information. See also https://www.voicesisrael.com/ .
Top winners from recent STC TechComm CompetitionIt's time to regroup, recharge, and celebrate our winners!
Dear Friends,
The STC Alliance Competition is back and to kick-off the 2020-21 Competition season, we are delighted to host a virtual STC TechComm Roadshow event on November 11, 2020 from 5:00-7:00 pm. EDT. In a nutshell, what is the STC Competition? 2 min. video
If you have not registered yet, please do. The event is FREE but you must register to get the link and most importantly, the URL to view recent winners' entries available online.Register for the free eventAlternate Registration methodWhat is the STC TechComm Roadshow?
Recognition event for recent top awardees, a chance to review winning entries and listen to winners' presentations
Get inspired, walk away with something you can use today
Understand the benefits of participating in STC Competitions and plan to join or volunteer
Presentations
Salesforce.com - Customer-Centric Data Strategies Trailhead
Presented by Lance Santin and Kellie Caster, Award of Excellence
BICSI - Telecommunications Distribution Methods Manual, 14th Edition,
Presented by Clarke Hammersley, Best of Show and Award of Distinction
Information Builders - Customer Education Website
Presented by Frances Gambino, Award of Excellence
Medidata Solutions, a Dassault Company
- The Architecture of Hope. Journey through Knowledge Spaces for Rave Omics, Dashboard and MEDs Ingestor,
Presented by Nitza Hauser, Jonathon Wilson, Graham Foster, Matthew Muscat, Jonathan Hodrick and Anita Gossett, Awards of Excellence and Merit
Upcoming STC Alliance Competition 2020-2021
STC Alliance Competition (ATL-NE-NY-ROC-SCT-WDCB)
Online Entry Form (Deadline for entries: January 15, 2021)
Judge Application Form (Deadline is December 8, 2020) 80% of our judges return, but if you are committed and willing, we do train!
Questions? Leave a note and we will contact you.
Meet the STC Alliance Competition Council
Competition Co-Managers: Malu Schloss, 917.312.1567, Carolyn Klinger, and Bobbi Werner
Joining us for the STC TechComm Roadshow?
LOCATION
online-web conference
DATE AND TIME
11/11/20 5:00pm - 11/11/20 7:00pm
Web conferencing will open at 4:30 pm.
Can't join, please send recording
Connect with us
STC Alliance TechComm Competition | 808 Broadway, Suite 601, New York, NY 10003
MEGAComm - The 14th Annual Conference for Technical Communicators, Documentation Managers, MARCOM Professionals, Content Managers etc.
We’re excited to be returning to the Ramada Renaissance Hotel for a variety of reasons. Events at the hotel are under new management and all the details have fallen into place perfectly! We have several international presenters – we’ll be discussing the hottest topics and trends in the industry. If you need help registering or have any questions, please contact me.
This is our 14th Annual Event and we still have surprises for you! If you’re using GitHub – we have finalized two workshops – GitHub for Beginners, immediately followed by Intermediate GitHub. Attendance is by a pre-registered link only and space is extremely limited to if this is you or your team, make sure to register for MEGAComm early (like now!).
If your job includes editing or writing Microcopy/UX – we have several presentations that will help you, inform you, offer you an opportunity to meet and network with others doing this as well. Video documentation? We’ve got that covered too.
MEGAComm 20/20 – Great presentations; great networking; great food and a great location!
Paula R. Stern CEO, WritePoint Ltd. Tekom
Israel President/Spokesperson
MEGAComm Conference Director www.writepoint.com @writepoint
Author Help, write tech specs and installation guides, create training systems and how-to videos?
Create or manage marketing material and strategies?
Manage documentation for your company?
If you answered YES to any of those, MEGAComm is your yearly opportunity to learn about new trends and techniques in your field—while networking with other professionals and catching up with your friends. Register Now to take advantage of early bird pricing.
The STC Alliance Competition (formerly The STC Regional TechComm Competition) is hosted by
a consortium of like-minded local and regional chapters who greatly value the benefits of STC technical communications competitions for our communities. These include Atlanta, New England, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, South-Central Texas and Washington, DC-Baltimore. Read more about the STC Alliance.
Why should you participate?
You've worked hard -- why not get recognized for it?
You want to get some honest feedback from objective and experienced judges
You want to be one of the first to receive the newest and coolest TechComm award badges (see below)
Who can participate?
What can be entered?
How do I Submit an Entry?
Here are two important forms:
Online Entry Form (entries due December 6)
Judge Application Form (deadline is December 2)
We welcome your entries and judging applications and encourage you to share these links with your chapter members and friends.
Be among the first to receive prized award badges!
We proudly present the STC Alliance award badges that you can use in social media, websites, company publications, signatures and resumes. We believe everyone will want to earn one of these badges.
The logos and award badges were designed by our Design team composed of Laurie Fiaretti, Julie Wing and Bobbi Werner. Thank you!
Got more questions? Ask someone in the Alliance Competition Council.
The STC Alliance Competition | Sponsors are welcome! Make a tax-exempt contribution.
STC Alliance Competition | 808 Broadway, Suite 601, New York, NY 10003
From the
Writer's Point of View* with Ronnie Tharp-Garber
When: Wednesday November 6th, 4:30pm - 6pm
Where: OU Israel Center, 22 Keren HaYesod, Jerusalem
ENTRY IS FREE!
Lecture to follow Mark Pollack's video showing of "Woman in Gold"
The lecture will cover:
- How to craft characters
- How to craft moral argument
- How to test for enough plot
Moral argument! What is that exactly, and why is that one of the most
powerful elements for a writer to incorporate into story?
Moral argument is the takeaway or the crux of great story! Come and find
out how to craft moral argument into your story.
For more information www.jcad18.org
OU Israel Center: 02-560-9100, ww.ouisrael.org
We'll here from:
- a Redis Labs support escalation engineer about how docs help the
escalation process
- Rachel Cheyfitz about successfully integrating docs into the Agile
methodology
- You if you want to get feedback from your peers about something going
on in your work
Oh, and free food too.
Sign up at: https://www.meetup.com/Write-The-Docs-TAplus/events/262835196/
Join the daily live conversations at: https://writethedocs.slack.com
All the best!
Ben Mansheim
ben@mansheim.com
home 077-440-3105
cell 052-691-6188
I am pleased to announce an author evening with authors Miryam Sivan, Julie
Zuckerman and Gila Green.
They will be reading from Make it Concrete, The Book of Jeremiah, and White
Zion respectively.
Where: Keramikli, 13 Ha'uman (Industrial Area). Yes, this means you can
enjoy a literary evening and you have the option of painting on ceramics
(regular prices apply).
When: July 7, 7:45 pm
The event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP to gilagreen@gmail.com (appreciated!)
GILA GREEN <https://www.gilagreenwrites.com/>
Author. Editor.
Self, hybrid, traditional - it's a confusing and daunting world out there as writers face the big hurdle of how to get your writing actually read.
Join the Tel Aviv Writer's Salon on April 30th from 7pm to 10pm as we discuss how to identify the best publishing options for your fiction or creative nonfiction and what steps to take after that. We'll discuss the various publishing paths and what to expect. Bring your questions because we have answers.
Cost is 115 NIS for the evening. Refreshments will be served. The class will be located in Urban Place in Tel Aviv. Sign up using Event Brite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tel-aviv-writers-salon-strategies-for-self-hybrid-or-traditional-publishing-tickets-59283837554There are only 7 seats still available so sign up soon!
If you aren't already a member of The Fabulists https://www.facebook.com/groups/fabulists/, my scintillating Facebook writing community, join up today for articles of interest about publishing, literature and more.
If you have questions about the class, please email me at hello@juliegray.info
*Necessary Stories: Between Worlds*
A woman fuses with an oak tree, Jews whispering at a performance of Arab
music, and an Iraqi grandmother cooking and matchmaking are the characters
you’ll meet in Necessary Stories: Between Worlds. It’s a new edition of the
reader’s theater performance of stories by the Jerusalem author Haim Watzman
<https://www.facebook.com/haim.watzman>. Last year’s show, sponsored by
Jerusalism <https://www.facebook.com/jerusalism/>, was a huge success, so
don’t miss this one.
The stories will be performed by Jane Golbert
<https://www.facebook.com/jane.golbert>, Annabelle Landgarten
<https://www.facebook..com/annabelle.landgarten.7>, and the author. A
discussion with the author will follow the performance. Don’t miss real
grassroots theater that reflects the depths of Jerusalem culture in English..
For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/jerualism-haim-watzman-18593214769
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/252993422285682/
<https://www.facebook..com/events/252993422285682/>
The Voices Israel Group of Poets in English meets monthly in Tel Aviv
(and elsewhere - see our newsletter at https://www.voicesisrael.com/ )
to read and discuss our original poetry. Newcomers are welcome.
This year's Tel Aviv meetings of Voices are scheduled for Beit Ariela,
next door to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. And downstairs where the racket
from pages turning in the library won't bother us. Next meeting is set
for Sunday, February 17 at 7:30 pm. Admission is 30 shekels, to cover
the cost of this prestigious location. Bring five or ten copies of one
or two original poems if you'd like to read, and be ready for
constructive criticism. Non-readers are also welcome.
From the entrance lobby of Beit Ariela, descend the left-hand staircase
and continue to the end of the corridor. On the left is the employees’
punch clock. On the right is a heavy door. Go through that doorway, and
immediately turn right again to continue downstairs.
When you reach the next floor down, you see heavy doors on your left and
on your right. Go through the left-hand doorway. Then immediately turn
right, and right again, and you will see the glass door of the
conference room to your left.
Our member Isaac Cohen has recorded the journey on video. See
<https://www.facebook.com/nosnivel/videos/10156831778224566/> .
Further meetings, same time and place, are scheduled as follows. All
dates are Sundays.
17 March
14 April
19 May
16 June
21 July
18 August
15 September
20 October
17 November
15 December
Join the Tel Aviv Writer's Salon as we meet to discuss the mechanisms and subgenres of romance writing! Whether you write romance, or read it - or don't even like it - this genre has a lot to teach writers about yearning, completion and wish fulfillment. There is a reason that it is the best selling genre in the world. Come and sit with us as we discuss the genre, get to know one another, and do some flash fiction writing. Coffee, tea, stunning views of Tel Aviv, writing, new friends - what else could a writer want?
February 12th 7-10pm
Fee: 100 NIS
Location: Ehad Ha'am 28 (City Hub), Tel Aviv
Class size is limited to 15 participants so sign up today! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fools-in-love-tel-aviv-writers-salon-tickets-54918978142
Overview:
Join us for a hands on workshop working with Gutenberg, the new WordPress
Editor.
We'll split into two groups - one for users and one for developers
Bring a laptop!
If you have a WordPress site, great! If not, you can use Frontenberg, or
look on with someone else.
Meetup Agenda:
9:00 - 9:15 Arrive and schmooze :)
9:15 - 10:00 Intro and demo of Gutenberg (with Rebecca Markowitz) and
recommendations for block-friendly plugins and themes
10:00 - 11:00 We will split into 2 groups, one for developers, and one for
users.
- Developers will work on creating a block for Gutenberg (with Ryan
Hellyer)
- Users will get more time using the editor, and a chance to ask more
questions (with Rebecca Markowitz)
Speakers:
Rebecca Markowitz is the Head of Technical Account Management at Strattic.
Rebecca is a WordPress specialist with over 11 years of experience managing
100+ WordPress website projects. She is also a Bengal Spice Tea specialist
and podcast lover.
Ryan Hellyer is a WordPress Engineer at Strattic. Ryan has been nerding it
up with WordPress since around 2007. He has built hundreds of WordPress
plugins, many of which are available to download on WordPress.org and
occasionally contributed to WordPress.
Language:
English
Cost:
Free
Sponsor:
MassChallenge Israel has accelerated more than 150+ companies through
Israel's largest, most diverse, and most international accelerator..
Refreshments will be provided.
Hope to see you there!
Make sure to RSVP!
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https://www.meetup.com/Jerusalem-WordPress-Meetup/events/257557954/
ASK ME ANYTHING
about Publishing and Publicity
December 30, 20:00-22:00
Talpiyot, Jerusalem
Are you writing a book about Israel or with Jewish content and want to know where to pitch it?
Have you published a book and now need to let the world know about it?
Do you need an author platform before you start touting your manuscript to publishers? How do you build an author platform?
Receive advice from Gila Green (who has three novels coming out over the next twelve months) on how to secure publishing deals with traditional publishers in the USA & Australia, how to negotiate your contract, and how to grow your author platform and web presence. With over 30 stories published in literary magazines, she has a wealth of tips on how to get your shorter fiction published. Her second novel, Passport Control has just been released.
Annette Gendler will share her experience with a hybrid publisher and standard book publicist for her memoir Jumping Over Shadows, and why she’s seriously considering self-publishing her next project. While she’s had several pieces published in literary magazines, she has her own take on that: The Year I Gave Up Submitting to Literary Magazines, and will guide you on markets for your short work.
Submit your burning question when you register in advance:
Date: December 30
Time: 20:00-22:00
Location: PICO Jerusalem, 4th floor, Poalei Tzedek 2, Talpiyot, Jerusalem
Cost: 120 NIS in advance (and get to submit your question in advance)/150 NIS on the door.
20% of proceeds will go to charity work in the South of Israel.
Nadia Jacobson
WriteSpace Jerusalem
Don't miss another edition of Jerusalism's open mic series, Jerusalem Speaks. We will return to Besarabia for an evening of poetry, music, and an open mic. The featured poet of the evening will be Karen Alkalay-Gut. There will be two open mic sessions -- first come, first served -- and musical accompaniment (TBA). Come to listen, come to hear, take the mic and share something -- join the fun!!
In co-operation with Janglo - Live Awesome in Israel, Jerusalem Business Networking Forum, Fun In Jerusalem
Program:
16.00 - 16.30: Registration, networking, refreshments
16.30 - 17.30: Greetings & Keynote speaker - Dr. Yehudit Abrams - 2018 Winner of Israel's WeWork Creator Awards. Founder CEO of MonitHer
17.30 - 18.15: Digital marketing for small businesses, social media, content & everything in between. Speaker: Mordecai Holtz z, Co-Founder & Chief Strategist, Blue Thread Marketing - Boutique Israeli digital agency
18.15 - 19.00: Dinner, networking, booths
19.00 - 20.00: Workshops - Track A or B (choose one):
Track A:
Let your Brand's Communications do the work for you. PR & Communications for your brand that you can do on your own, & why it matters. Speaker: Rachel Moore , PR and Communications professional. Owner of Hub Etzion
Track B:
How to Increase your productivity. Keeping your work (and home) space clutter free, correct organizational skills & effective time management tips . Speaker: Rebekah Chaifetz Saltzman, Personal organizer & designer. Founder of Balagan Be Gone - Rebekah Saltzman - Personal Organizer.
Registration at the door: NIS 150
REGISTER HERE: https://www.wizevents.com/register/register_add.php?sessid=10535&id=6426
Moderated by Lesley Josman Kaplan of LAK Creations & Consulting - Lesley Kaplan
What’s Your Story? at The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot with Jennifer Friedman Lang
Using the museum’s permanent and temporary collections, Jennifer Friedman Lang will take you on a journey to write about roots and religion, family trees and traditions, language and lost communities.
Open to all levels and genres.
Meets one Monday/month from 17:00 – 19:00, starting November 26.
Details at https://www.bh.org.il/event/ whats-story-creative-writing- course/ https://www.bh.org.il/event/whats-story-creative-writing-course/
We're delighted to invite you to the next Tekom IL event
- This Sunday, November 25
- From 10.00 - 12.00
- At IMPERVA in Rechovot, 2 Professor Chaim Pekeris St.
The event is free of charge
And open to members and non-members
And will include:
1) Report from Tekom annual conference
We'll be having a panel of representatives from Israel who attended the
event.
They'll be giving their impressions and report-back of the latest and
greatest in the industry.
2) Debi Parush will be presenting
How can tech writers contribute to improving UX?
Registration is required and you can sign up at this link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tekom-israel-meetup-tickets-52881953346
Nothing to Write About: Finding Inspiration in Writer’s Block with Hila Ratzabi workshop
-- 2 spots left —
Open to all genres, all levels.
Cost: 390 nis includes lunch.
Call 054 256 7157 to sign up.
Are you finding it difficult to edit your work because you get lost in the words, you can’t think how best to improve the text or you’re just overwhelmed at the thought of revision?
In this workshop, you'll learn to revise your work to locate its emotional strength, preserve its essence and sharpen its power. By the end of the day, you'll leave with a host of techniques to review (resee) your work and to restructure and edit it on the macro and micro level.
We all have stories to tell.
For some of us, they lie buried, deep inside, occasionally rising up and taking us by surprise.
n this workshop, we will plumb our bodies and our minds through movement and meditation to find our stories and begin to write them.
e will explore how the practice of yoga enriches the art of writing.
As yogi and writer Susanna Harwood Rubin said, "Writing can be a purging, a meditation, a creative investigation in the same way that a yoga practice can burn off what isn't serving us, draw us into contemplation, or ignite our creativity. The process can feel hesitant or fluid, peaceful or driven, playful or gut-wrenching."
This workshop is open to all levels of writers.
Registration: http://www.writespacejerusalem.com/yoga-writing-workshop-with-jennifer-lang---may-31.html.
Details
Date: May 31, 2018
Location: Talbiya, Jerusalem (free parking nearby)
Cost: 450 NIS (500 NIS on the door)
Bio
Jennifer Lang's dream is to help others merge the practice of yoga and the art of writing, to connect to something greater through words and movement. Her essays have appeared in Under the Sun, Assay, Ascent, The Coachella Review, Hippocampus Magazine, and Full Grown People. Honors include Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays nominations and finalist in 2017 Crab Orchard Review's Literary Nonfiction Contest.
Migdal HaEmek Flare User Group Meeting January 29, 2018
Click here to register.
Advance registration is required. Click here to register.
Confirmed presentations:
▪ Flare innovations, by the CyberArk writing team
▪ Reviewing reviewing with Flare, by Shlomo Sagir (CTO, Tech-Tav)
▪ Introducing MadCap Mimic, by Mike Hamilton (VP Product Evangelism, MadCap)
Tech-Tav Documentation invites all MadCap Flare users in Israel to the upcoming Flare user group meeting. Many thanks to Sapiens for hosting and for sponsoring the refreshments.
Advance registration is required at http://sable.madmimi.com/c/36454?id=3642.359.1.934e476d1de50fa1a121eebae1ab5767
Date: Monday, September 11, 2017
Time: 15:00-18:00
Hosted by: Sapiens
Address: Holon
Cost: Free
Nov 3: Seminar with award-winning writer & lecturer Ilana Blumberg
Writing Memoir: Place and Person
Who we are is shaped powerfully by where we are. Our homes and streets and neighborhoods, our childhood towns or cities, are more than just the "setting"; they make some lives and life choices possible, and others impossible.
ove your story from your imagination onto the page.
Learn how manage the creator and editor sides of your brain.
Break through “writer’s block".
Engage your senses and push your story through from beginning to end in creative writing workshops with fiction writer, Nadia Jacobson, and hybrid and creative non-fiction writer, Batnadiv HaKarmi. In each of the workshops, participants will hone specific skills through in-class writing prompts and submit pieces for in-depth feedback.
This 8-week series will focus on:
Dialogue & embodiment, handling a cast of characters. setting, and story arc (4 sessions)
Time, pace, rhythm, motifs & themes, and switching from writing to editing (4 sessions)
This workshop is appropriate for people who have writing experience.
http://www.writespacejerusalem.com/story-foundations.html
[Owing to popular demand, the same course will run on Monday mornings].
Have you just completed the first draft of a work of fiction or creative nonfiction?
Are you feeling stuck completing your manuscript?
Join an 8-week intensive with writers and editors Batnadiv HaKarmi & Nadia Jacobson to:
Participants will acquire advanced writing skills through a study of a variety of literary models and in-class writing prompts. They will submit excerpts of their work in progress for critique.
For teacher bios, more details & online registration:
http://www.writespacejerusalem.com/manuscript-in-focus.html
Dates: Mondays, 13:00-15:00, Oct 31-Dec 19 (incl.)
Cost: 800 NIS (8 sessions)
Location: PICO Jerusalem, Talpiyot, Jerusalem
ove your story from your imagination onto the page.
Learn how manage the creator and editor sides of your brain.
Break through “writer’s block".
Engage your senses and push your story through from beginning to end in creative writing workshops with fiction writer, Nadia Jacobson, and hybrid and creative non-fiction writer, Batnadiv HaKarmi. In each of the workshops, participants will hone specific skills through in-class writing prompts and submit pieces for in-depth feedback.
This 8-week series will focus on:
Dialogue & embodiment, handling a cast of characters. setting, and story arc (4 sessions)
Time, pace, rhythm, motifs & themes, and switching from writing to editing (4 sessions)
This workshop is appropriate for people who have writing experience.
http://www.writespacejerusalem.com/story-foundations.html
[Owing to popular demand, the same course will run on Tuesday evenings].
Tech-Tav Documentation invites all MadCap Flare users in Israel to the upcoming Flare user group meeting. Many thanks to AT&T Interwise for hosting and for sponsoring the refreshments.
Advance registration is required at http://goo.gl/forms/HMIi8cbj9XQzrEcj1
Date: Monday, September 19, 2016
Time: 15:00-18:00
Hosted by: AT&T Interwise
Address: 2 Hanegev Street, Airport City
Cost: Free
Whenever we write autobiographically, we are writing from the moment in which we find ourselves. How can we both recapture the perspective of our past selves and be true to our current self's insights?
his seminar will consider how we write in the present about the dramatic and not-so-dramatic moments that have brought us to this day, evoking the past vividly while balancing it with our current knowledge of ourselves and the world in which we live.
Readings will be sent out two weeks in advance of the seminar.
Ilana Blumberg is the incoming director of the Shaindy Rudoff Program in Creative Writing at Bar Ilan University where she teaches creative nonfiction. She is the author of Houses of Study: a Jewish Woman among Books (U Nebraska Press, 2007; Bison Books, 2009), winner of the 2007 Sami Rohr Choice Award and finalist for both the National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies and the Moment Magazine Award for Emerging Writers. She is the author of the scholarly monograph Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels (Ohio State UP, 2015) and has published widely on Victorian literature. Ilana won teaching awards from the University of Pennsylvania and Michigan State University before joining the English Department of Bar Ilan University in 2014. She lives in Jerusalem with her family.
More details & sign up: http://www.writespacejerusalem.com/writing-autobiography-with-ilana-blumberg.html
Location: Talbiya, Jerusalem
Cost: 400 NIS
