FEB/MAR 2007 (Volume 18 Number 3) About the Quill
In This Issue
President's Message: Spring Into Action!
Debbie wants us to get involved. And there is lots to choose from this month. Read all about it! 
Choose Your Job
Peter Szabo, our Consulting and Independent Contractor SIG Manager, lets us in on his life career choices—you too can choose your own destiny.
Spring Workshop: It's All About the XML
Sarah O'Keefe, renowned Framemaker guru and XML expert, provides us with a preview of what we can expect from her upcoming chapter workshop with us. Don't delay, sign up today!
Content and Convergence: Another Move Away from Content Silos
Rahel Bailie is back with some great advice and guidance for breaking down corporate silos and merging content into a single, sharable universe. Is this a pipe dream or a glimpse into our future as communicators? Click to find out.
2006/2007 Chapter Competition: The Results Are In!
Ruth Haworth, our brave competition manager, fills us in on the winners and judges in this year's Southwestern Ontario chapter competition.
Director's Message: Spring Cleaning STC Style
In Cindy's March/April message, our Director for Region 1 encourages you to vote, attend a conference and/or board meeting and get involved in shaping
your STC.
Getting to Know the Candidates
Meet a few of the eager candidates in the upcoming STC elections. In this compilation of campaign spiels, Cindy Currie, Leah Guren, Robert Young, Steven Jong, and Nicky Bleiel want to tell you why you should vote them in.
Council Meeting Minutes: January/February
Rain, sleet, or snow: nothing stops your council from its appointed duties. We have been busy over the last couple of months, and would like to tell you all about it.
Upcoming Chapter Meetings & Events
We have some exciting events coming up in March—read all about it!
The Editor's MessageWe're baaaack. Yes, after a long winter's nap, your chapter newsletter lives again. We are emerging from the February blahs, and springing into an early Daylight Saving Time (DST) with vim and vigour, thanks to our neighbours to the South. I am looking forward to more sunlight in my days, and actually enjoying a sunny drive home instead of escaping my desk under the cover of darkness. Even if I have to drive directly into the blinding rays, count me in! DST and Y2K: Cousins?As I said, shifting DST up and out a few weeks is actually one of Mr. Bush's better ideas, but is it just me, or am I the only one feeling the déjà vu? Remember Y2K? Yeah, well the world didn't blow up, but you'd have thought it was the end of life as we know it from the mobs of people whipping themselves into a frenzy at the thought of the millenium starting with a "2". Looking back, it all seems so silly now. But here we are again, the new DST dates are changing our lives, and conspiracy theories abound. What happens if my calendar is wrong? What do you mean I have to manually adjust all the appointments in my calendar after March 11th? And then I have to do it again in November? People are outraged, and IT departments are perplexed. They push the fixes out, and the onus is on us to actually fix it on our desktops, laptops, and portable office devices. Oh, the horror, the horror... It's Not Rocket ScienceIt's actually pretty simple—install the updates, and move your calendar appointments up an hour. Done. But simplicity has gone the way of the dodo. Instead, we are infusing the message with why we have to do it , who is responsible, and how it is affecting our systems. Really — who cares? Just tell me what I need to do. If I want any more information, I can just Google it. Thanks. Questions? Comments?
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