BOARD REPORT: FALL 2002
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Publishing
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BOARD REPORT: FALL 2002 |
Fall Report to the ACE Board
Publishing Special Interest Group
September 25, 2002
Jim Coats (University of California), Chair
Diane Blake Bowen (Texas A&M), Vice-Chair
Natalie Johnson (New Mexico State University), Vice-Chair-Elect
Vice-Chair-Elect Natalie Johnson will coordinate the selection process for this year's Award of Excellence and solicit nominations for the Pioneer, Beacon, and Professional awards. She will also work with the National Resource Management Officers (NRMOs) to explore the possibility of their holding a workshop jointly with PubSIG.
Vice-Chair Diane Blake Bowen will work with Meg Ashman to keep the PubSIG web page up to date. Diane will also arrange for judges for this year's C&A.
Chair Jim Coats will prepare reports to the ACE board and to PubSIG members, convene monthly conference calls with PubSIG leaders, and coordinate the SIG's overall efforts.
The three of us together will maintain communications within PubSIG via monthly or bi-monthly e-mail bulletins with announcements, upcoming deadlines, etc., as well as personal e-mails and phone calls as appropriate.
After some discussion in our September conference call, the PubSIG leaders agreed that we did not see the need for regional representatives within PubSIG. We did not understand what unique role those representatives would play, and did not see how we as SIG leaders could coordinate their efforts to the benefit of the SIG.
The Publishing SIG's business meeting report from Savannah is attached. The business meeting itself was very brief as a result of scheduling problems at the Savannah ACE meeting.
Publishing SIG leaders will communicate with SIG members via monthly or bimonthly e-mailings (the first e-mail, sent in September, included the minutes of our business meeting in Savannah), up-to-date postings to the PubSIG Web site, and online surveys of PubSIG members to aid in SIG program planning for the Kansas City meeting in 2003. We will also send individual e-mails and make phone calls as appropriate, and visit members in person when convenient.
The PubSIG Web site was redesigned this year by Meg Ashman, Sue Keller, and Kim Parker, and is accessible via the ACE home page or directly at www.uvm.edu/extension/acepubsig. All links appear to be working well.
Based on comments by SIG members present at the Savannah business meeting, the C&A classes in the Publishing area need no changes this year. One judge in particular was very late returning judged materials for two classes to ACE headquarters, and Diane will be seeking replacement judges for those two classes.
SIG members also asked that C&A entrants be given accurate dates of when they can expect to receive results for their entries, and that those dates be far enough in advance of the Kansas City meeting to allow award recipients to book economical flights and accommodations in order to attend the meeting and awards ceremony.
We do anticipate presenting an Award of Excellence this year. Natalie Johnson will coordinate the selection process.
We would like to have a full hour available for the PubSIG business meeting at Kansas City, free of scheduling conflicts such as those we experienced in Savannah. Also, we'd like to see consecutive page numbers throughout the SIG Leaders' Handbook next year (sounds petty, but hey, a lot of us are editors).
In terms of the program, the PubSIG leaders will survey our membership over the next few weeks to see how they would like to see us use our alotted time at the Kansas City meeting, and we will discuss those suggestions and come up with a plan during our October conference call.
"The Publishing SIG's mission is to develop and recognize professional skills, and facilitate networking and information sharing, among ACE members who work in print or electronic publications."
We have no other specific requests for the ACE Board.
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