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SIGDOC Newsletter
June 2007
:: Volume 8, Number 2
Our Members
Notes from the Chair
Dear SIGDOC Member,
The results of the election of SIGDOC executive board
members for 2007-2009 have been tallied by the ACM. The following members
represent you as
the new board for July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2009:
Chair: Brad Mehlenbacher, NC State University
Vice-Chair: Rob Pierce, IBM Corporation
Secretary/Treasurer: Shaun Slattery, DePaul University
I'd like personally thank each of the other candidates for putting
their names forward for consideration in this election. Without your
on-going
interest and involvement, we'd not have an organization or an election
for that matter. Also, thank you especially to Kathy Haramundanis
for serving as Nominations Chair for the entire process. Finally, I wanted
to encourage you to thank Ashley Williams for her tireless commitment
to our organization in her capacity as Secretary/Treasurer over the
last two years. Not only did she organize and manage the ACM SIGDOC
budget, but she also completely redesigned a user-centered version
of the SIGDOC Website (www.sigdoc.org), *and* managed to find the
time
to document our board meetings in-between projects. Ashley, we're
delighted to continue working with you in your new capacity as Information
Director,
working with the ACM and coordinating additions and improvements
to our existing and future society information infrastructure.
This year's ACM SIGDOC 2007 conference is being held in El Paso, Texas
from October 18th to the 20th (see www.sigdoc2007.org).
David Novick (General Chair) and Clay Spinuzzi (Program Chair) have
been working
tirelessly bringing together an international program committee and
receiving incoming paper proposals for the conference. The keynote
speaker at the conference will be Dr.
Michael Muller,
an international expert in participatory design, and a research scientist
and design researcher with the Collaborative user Experience group
at IBM Research, Cambridge, MA. The conference banquet will feature
Dr.
Judith Ramey,
who will accept the ACM
SIGDOC Diana Award for lifetime organizational
achievement related to communication design on behalf of the University
of Washington's Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation or
LUTE.
Looking forward to a terrific year! And, in the meantime, happy summertime
eh,
Brad Mehlenbacher
Associate Professor, Training and Development (ACCE),
Adjunct/Associate Professor, Ergonomics (PSYCH),
and Affiliated Faculty, PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7801
919.515.6242 (ph)
chair_sigdoc@acm.org (e-mail)
www4.ncsu.edu/~brad_m (url)
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INTECOM: "Transformation 2007": A Report
on the AGM Meeting in Minneapolis, MN
Dear SIGDOC Member,
The 2007 INTECOM Annual General Meeting (AGM) was
held on May 17th following the Technical Communication Summit—the
54th Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication in
Minneapolis, MN. It was an
honor for me to attend this meeting as your new voting U.S.A. delegate
(replacing Stephanie
Rosenbaum).
Nine others were also present: (photo (front row)): Paula Berger (STC
Immediate Past President, USA, Representative), Susan Burton (STC Executive
Director, USA), Linda Oestreich (STC Incoming President, USA), Suzanna
Laurent (STC Outgoing Past President, USA), Gloria Reece (ACM SIGDOC,
USA Delegate); (photo (back row)): Jurgen Muthig (tekom, Germany Delegate),
Kaye Churches (TCANZ, New Zealand, Delegate), Michaël Steehouder
(IEEE/PCS, Germany), Leo Adank (STIC, INTECOM Treasurer, The Netherlands),
and Michael Fritz (tekom Executive Director, Germany).
© 2007 photography and digital story by Dr. Gloria A. Reece.
All
rights reserved. Group photo of delegates is from INTECOM 2007 collection.
Suzanna Laurent presided
over the meeting. During the meeting, we held discussions about the
future of INTECOM. (The need for such a discussion
became clear during an earlier meeting in Guernsey in 2006.) At the
Minneapolis meeting, the delegates agreed that INTECOM should focus more
on its core
business of being a platform for the exchange of information and ideas
between national and international organizations in technical communication.
Moreover, the structure and working procedures of INTECOM also needed
to be less formal.
As the result of the Minneapolis meeting, the delegates
provided direction for a proposal for INTECOM’s future. The proposal
covers objectives, polices, and procedures. We also discussed content
for the proposal via
e-mail with participation from member societies. The proposal has also
been sent to ACM SIGDOC Chair, Dr. Brad Mehlenbacher
for discussion with the SIG’s governing board. Instructions for
providing feedback on the proposal prior to the November meeting are
given in the correspondence and proposal. A final discussion and formal
voting will take place during an extra (short) AGM to be held at Wiesbaden
(Germany) on November 6, 2007. This meeting will be adjacent to the tekom
Conference. For additional information regarding the meeting, proposal
content, and formal vote, please contact Michaël
Steehouder. Digital storytelling and development of new media products for mobile
media are areas where I have expertise. The digital story above captures
some of the highlights of my first trip to Minneapolis, MN.
Index to Photos in Digital Story:
- A whimsical scrapbook photo of Dr. Gloria Reece
- A cathedral near the Holiday Inn Express Hotel
- A view of Minneapolis as the plane approaches for landing
- A night view of a high rise tower at The Nicollette on the mall
- A photo of a wall painting of The Nicollette on the mall
- A statue in front of Westminster Presbyterian Church
- Mermaid in “The News Room”
- An INTECOM momento
- AGM meeting attendees
- A jazz band playing at popular Dakota bar at The Nicollette
on the mall
- Flowers in bloom at The Nicollette on the mall
- A street musician playing the saxophone for tips
- Renaissance Square
- Courtyard near Westminster Presbyterian Church
I hope you enjoy
the story—please let me know if I can help you
with design of communication for one that fits your needs! You may
reach me at drgreece@windstream.net.
Sincerely,
Dr. Gloria A. Reece
Educator, Researcher, and Consultant
Exceptional Technology Solutions
http://www.exceptionaltechnologysolutions.com
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