Hyperviews:Online Summer 2000 Letter from the Editor

	LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Summer gifts and remembrances... B Y K A R E N M O B L E Y Editor - Hyperviews:Online Carolina Chapter
A gift out of the blue...	This issue of Hyperviews:Online contains a special little gift. Shortly after we began publishing on the Web, we loaded our back issues of the original HyperViews newsletter into our online archives. Every issue, that is, except one: the first issue. John Daigle changed that. If you go to the archives page and scroll to the bottom, you can see the first issue. To make things interesting, this is the WinHelp version of the issue. Read John's letter to Hyperviews:Online to learn more about this OISIG twist on a newsletter. And remember, it premiered in 1994, before the Web was really rolling.
...and remembrances of things past, too.	A year ago in the Summer 1999 issue, I talked about my summer vacation spent in Seattle at the International Workshop hosted by the University of Washington's Department of Technical Communication (UWTC). Well, the heuristics I mentioned have finally been published! If you can't find your copy of the August 2000 Technical Communication, then go to the online site of the STC Journal. If you are working with online information, especially Web-based information, the work of these authors is too important to miss.
What happened to the post-conference edition?	As you might recall, the Hyperviews:Online staff decided to publish a pre- and post-conference edition of the Spring issue. The post-conference edition is available, but we didn't have time to send out the e-mail notice. Be sure to check out the articles that published in the post-conference edition!
Looking to the Fall 2000 issue	Last, but not least, Hyperviews:Online is preparing for the Fall 2000 issue. This issue will be about "New Directions." Are you designing new forms of user assistance for new devices such as hand-helds, kiosks, WebTV, or ATMs? Are you using technologies in new ways, such as JSP or video? Do you know someone who is? Let us know! Don't wait! Do it now!
	Karen Mobley (merlyn@iname.com) is a programmer and technical communicator specializing in online help and web design with IBM Netfinity servers in Research Triangle Park, NC. She has a B.S. in computer science from Clemson University and will complete her master’s degree in technical communication at North Carolina State University in December.
Summer 2000 Volume 3, # 3	Copyright © 2000 IBM