By Meredith Kinder, Carolina Communiqué Managing Editor

In this issue of Carolina Communiqué , we lay a heavy emphasis on STC membership. We have five articles that are centered around membership and how your career can be enhanced by taking advantage of what our organization provides, both at a local and international level.

• Andrea Wenger's article stresses the importance of not only being an STC Carolina chapter member, but being an active one
• Jenna's article outlines why the Carolina Chapter is a great buy
• John Hedke's article gives a personal account of the value STC has brought to his "pocketbook"
• Christina Eftekhar's article is a recap of the chapter's membership picnic, which included socializing and luau festivities
• An article from STC describes information only available to members: the salary survey results

In addition to focusing on membership, we spotlight an article by Monique Cobb on the old waxing layout process and how her look back on the past helps her as a technical communicator today.

We also provide you with information about our chapter. Rick Sapir presents an update of our cutting-edge newsletter — how we've not only added features but have tools in place to see how visitors interact with the site. And Jenna's president's message takes a look back at last year and looks towards new changes and new faces in the chapter.

As always, Dear Viv is ready and willing to dole out advice for you. Read her latest column and submit a question of your own. We guarantee a reply, and if you're lucky yours will be printed in the next issue!

Meredith can be reached at newsletter at stc-carolina dot org.