SIG Manager's Message

By SCOTT DELOACH
International SIG Manager
Atlanta Chapter

As we all recover and begin to deal with last week’s events, our thoughts go out to the victims and their families. Let’s all stand strong. Together, we can beat terrorism.

Embedded Help Articles

Karen and I are trying to put together a group of authors for a potential Online SIG edition of Technical Communication. Our focus will be embedded Help. We need 3-6 articles. If you are interested, please send me a potential title and short description/abstract of the article. If you want bounce some ideas around, that’s fine too! You can reach me at scott@userfirst.net.

“How Did You Hear About the WWW?”

We are looking for your stories about your first experience with the Web. Just where you were working, what you were doing, what you thought about it, and so forth. Send ’em to me at scott@userfirst.net.

Join Our Team!

Want to get involved? We are looking to fill the following positions:

Glossary Team Member
The glossary team (check out their work on our Online Information Glossary) is looking for team members. Team members write (or find) short definitions of common Internet- and Help-related terms.

Columnist
Write (or have others write) one article per quarter focused on a specific area of online communication. We are open to suggestions, but some potential columns could be:

• HTML-based Help
• Web technologies
• Online design
• Various product tips and tricks
• Web site reviews (pick a site and review it)
• Adobe Acrobat
• Multimedia

Special Offers Coordinator
Solicit and post special offers for online information-related products (conferences, books, software, services, and so forth).

Interested? Send me an e-mail at scott@userfirst.net. Also, we are looking for articles for our next issue. Hyperviews:Online is your chance to reach over 5,000 online information developers!

In Your Neighborhood

As many of you know, over 20 chapters have a local Online SIG. If your chapter doesn’t have an Online SIG and you want to start one, let me know. I would really like to help — especially with non-US chapters. I know you’re out there! And for all you chapter-level Online SIG leaders — Thanks for all of your hard work!

If you are looking for online information-related events in your area, check out our new Events and Conferences page. Brian Curtis is doing an excellent job gathering and maintaining this information. Thanks, Brian!