Publishing SIG NEWSLETTER May 2001

May 2001 ACE Pub SIG Newsletter

• Greetings
• 2001 ACE/NETC Conference

I want to apologize for not getting a newsletter out to our SIG sooner. Over the last several months, our Extension Communications staff has been in the midst of a transition at Colorado State. As of July 1, our communications staff will be merged into the University Relations office at Colorado State University. I don't know if any of you have this structure at your universities but this was done to centralize functions within the University and make the units more efficient and save money. Now, rather than have control over their own communications staff, Extension will go to each unit (media, publishing, etc.) and ask for support for various services (media relations, publishing, etc.) Interesting......and very time consuming.

2001 ACE/NETC Conference: Toronto, July 28-August 1

Business Meeting

 As most of you know, the Toronto meeting is approaching. Our business meeting will be on Sunday, July 29th from 1:30 to 3. As with past years, we have asked for a longer SIG session in order to provide our members with time to interact with each other and find out what each other is doing. To plan this session, I would like to call on the help of any members, as well as officers and regional reps. I will schedule a conference call for the end of May or early June. If you can help us plan this session, please let me know as soon as possible and I will set up a time for the call. One of the items we might consider talking about is an update on e-commerce. Many of us are either there or planning in it and we could benefit from anyone experience in this area.

If any of you have any ideas or areas you'd like to discuss in our session, please forward those to me.

Publishing SIG Sessions

 The final list of the sessions that the Publishing SIG is sponsoring includes:

1. Developing Online Templates for County Agent Web Page Publishing and Delivering Education Programs Via the Web: Pete Flores, Texas Agriculture Extension Service
2. Dynamic Generation of Extension County Web Pages, Overview and Demonstration: Gerald D. Spittle, William Richardson, Mary Ellen Pierson, and Brian Ward, Virginia Tech, AHNR IT, Linda Burcham, Virginia Tech Ag & Extension Communications
3. Increasing the Discoverability of Online Library Material by Applying Dublin Core Meta Data Schema: Kansas State Research and Extension's Experience Susan Bale and Nancy Peavler, Kansas State University
4. Intellectual Property Developed at the University: Whose Property Is It Anyway?: Meg Ashman, University of Vermont
5. Publishing in the Journal of Applied Communications: Building Your Professional Portfolio Chris Penko: ACE Coordinator and JAC Managing Editor
6. Put Your Hands ON Our Office Websites (hands-on session) William W. Richardson, Linda Burcham, Mary Ellen Pierson, Brian Ward, and Jerry Spittle: Virginia Tech
7. Running an Effective Publishing Operation: Bill Harnum, Senior Vice President and Carolyn Wood, Vice-President Order Fulfilment, University of Toronto Press
8. Setting Up an E-commerce Website: Roberto Ramirez, University of Florida
9. The Multimedia Power of Enhanced Acrobat(tm) PDFs: Russ Merzdorf, Purdue University
10. The View from the Front: Agent Evaluations of Extension Publications: Judy Winn, Texas Agricultural Extension Service
11. To Market, To Market: Road Map to Retail Diane Bowen: Texas Agricultural Extension
12. Zero Effort Database Kit for the Web: J. Reynaldo A. Santos and Diann Mitchell, EIT, Texas Agricultural Extension Service / Texas A&M University

Hope you are all doing well.....see you in Toronto!

Debby Weitzel, Publishing SIG Chair

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