NEWSLETTER
January 2006
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SIG NEWSLETTER January 2006 |
January 2006 ACE Publishing SIG
Newsletter
For information, contact Glenda Freeman,
Chair, Publishing SIG
In This Issue:
1. Greetings
2. Award of Excellence Nominations Due February 17
3. Editing Judge Conversation Call Notes
4. Welcome New Members
5. The Inklings in Quebec City?
6. -30- : Integrity
We've now reached the end of the first month of 2006. January is, of course, the time we review, dust off, and ship some examples of our best work to ACE headquarters so they can be sent to the ACE Critique and Award judges on time. Many thanks to Amanda Chambliss for her hard work in accomplishing this task each year. Before entries arrive, she answers many questions about the competition and seeks help from SIG leaders as needed. We don't take Amanda for granted; this is a big task and we appreciate her efficiency and pleasant attitude even when pressed with a deadline. To me, the ACE Critique and Awards Program just gets better every year!
2. Award of Excellence Nominations Due February 17
Nominations for the ACE Publishing SIG Award of Excellence are due soon -- February 17. This is a wonderful opportunity to help recognize a colleague for his or her work in the publishing field.
Special thanks to Kyle McCaskill, Publishing SIG vice chair-elect, for coordinating this year's award nomination and selection process. Below is her note of January 27 with more details:
"You have three weeks left in which to nominate a worthy colleague for the ACE Publishing SIG Award of Excellence! February 17 is the nomination deadline.
"Every year, each ACE Special Interest Group (SIG) is encouraged to recognize a current ACE member for excellence, leadership, and involvement in the area represented by their SIG.
"Do you know someone who deserves to be considered for the ACE Publishing SIG Award of Excellence? In considering nominees, think of someone who
"Any ACE member---active or retired---may be nominated by any ACE member. Nominees must not currently be serving as chair or vice chair of the PubSIG, nor serving as ACE president, president-elect, or vice president.
"Completed nomination forms must be submitted to me by Friday, February 17. E-mail them to kmccaskill@umext.maine.edu or fax to 207-581-1387 (to my attention). If you are considering or are in the process of nominating someone, it would be helpful if you would send me a message now to let me know.
"You'll find nomination forms, past winners, and a description of the award and its criteria at http://www.aceweb.org/award/excellence.html. Or, go to www.aceweb.org, select Award Programs, and find Award of Excellence in the listing."
Kyle McCaskill
Pub SIG Vice-Chair Elect
207-581-3185
kmccaskill@umext.maine.edu
3. Editing Judge Conversation Call Notes
A big thank you to Bob Griffin, judge for C&A's Publishing Class 25, Editing, for joining the SIG's conversation call December 19. He opened the session by telling us, "When you see it [good editing] you know what it is." All of Bob's comments on how he views entries in this category were interesting and helpful. Thanks to Kyle for taking notes.
If you have an idea for a topic for a future conversation call, let me know.
The Publishing SIG is fortunate to have several new members. They are listed below with their e-mail addresses and some biographical information. I have sent each a note from the Publishing SIG, but I'm sure they would enjoy hearing from others as well.
My Dear Members of ACE Publishing SIG. I am very grateful for my acceptance into your group. Communication in the media is what I have been longing for, so I count myself lucky and I am very happy that I found ACE.
Let me proceed by giving a brief description of myself and what I have been doing.
I come from the English-speaking part of Cameroon in Africa, where I did my education through the GCE A' level to the Higher Teachers Training College, where I graduated as a biology teacher for the secondary school.
After serving for one year as a biology teacher, I travelled to Germany where I studied Agro-economics as the major course and waste management and Communication and Advice as sub-courses. I graduated from the University of Giessen in Germany in May 2005.
Besides my educational achievements, I came to realise that I had special interests in Computer applications, which I have been doing on my own. These Computer applications that assist the human being in facilitating his work in his day to day life, I have been practicing them as a hobby. For example taking photographs and manipulating them with computer softwares, among others Adobe Photoshop, digitalising and editing sound and music in wave format, establishing home computer network systems, and many others.
Since after my graduation in May, I am now working on website design and Database modelling including the PHP programming language.
Putting all these together, I realised that ACE is the best place for me to be.
I promise to do my best in everything that concerns me in this group.
My best regards.
Roland Oben.
Welcome to all!
5. The Inklings in Quebec City?
Did you see the last issue of Signals? If you missed it, go to http://www.aceweb.org/publications/SignalsNovDec05.pdf for some very interesting reading about the 2006 ACE meeting in Quebec City. I'll be sharing more details with you next month about a special SIG-sponsored activity. In the meantime, be thinking The Inklings. Got your attention?
OK, I admit it: I'm a word geek so you will understand that I love dictionaries--paper ones and online versions as well. I'm particularly fond of the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Online Dictionary. At the beginning of December, the editors shared a list of the most online word lookups for 2005. At the top of the list was the word "integrity." I'm not sure what that says about us as dictionary users, but I somehow feel it is a good thing. And the online service, which is by subscription if you want the unabridged version, has just added a new database: Merriam-Webster's French-English Dictionary featuring more than 80,000 entry words and phrases. This could come in handy to those traveling to Quebec City in June!
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