Chapter Meetings

FLASH!    

PNW/ASI offers an innovative “venue” for its biannual meeting, a format we call In-Sync Indexing.

In the extremely large region that our chapter covers, this format for the spring meeting is both new and useful. Indexers will be meeting on the same date, and at the same time, but in their own geographical locations; thus Seattlites meet somewhere in Seattle, Portlanders in Portland, Eastern Washingtonians somewhere central to them, Eugeniuses in or near Eugene, etc. We won't have to travel over eight to twelve hours one way to attend a meeting, nor will we have to stay in motels for at least two nights.

On April 10th, from 10am to 1pm, with all of us meeting in our prospective places ("at a location near you"), we will follow a preplanned script. There will be no need for conferencing.

• Every group will have a facilitator to manage activities and time and we will all be doing the same things at the same time—just in different places—synchronizing...or
In Sync.

• Each group will be provided a packet of materials to guide members through the planned discussions and activities. Whether a group of 16 or 2, the content of your meeting will be the same as other members of the chapter.

• At the end of all the meetings, a recorder will post the group summaries and evaluations in order to create a collection for the entire chapter to review.

The Program Team is recruiting a point person from each geographical area who would find a location where indexers can meet. Some location ideas include a library, a quiet food court, or even someone’s own home. Below is a list of geographical areas which have point people and locations to gather in. If your area has more than two indexers, would you be willing to help too? 

Pacific Northwest Indexers and Locations

Please register with the point person listed in the location you wish to attend by April 5th so we will know how many people to expect at each site. The address/directions to the site will be emailed to each registrant prior to the meeting, along with copies of the handouts.

Carolyn Weaver        Redmond, WA  
Anita Goebel            Vashon Island, WA
Tracy Wilson-Burns    Spokane, WA
Rebecca Brown         Portland, OR
Ann Yager                 Eugene, OR
Elspeth Richmond     Vancouver, BC  
Dana Henricks           Missoula, MT

Outside the Pacific Northwest:

Cheryl Landes       (Massachusettes)
Rose Ippolito        (Southern California)
Katrin Olafsson     (Northern California) 
Jan Wright           (New Mexico)

What to bring to the Meeting

1. Your handouts which will be sent to you via email in advance of the meeting.
2. Check in with your point person if you are willing to bring a laptop for the shortcut/macros demonstrations.

$5.00 will be provided to you to go toward your lunch expenses
(For Pacific Northwest Indexers)

Indexers outside of the Pacific Northwest**

We invite you or any other and your colleagues to participate in the InSync Indexing program. All it takes is one other indexer and a place for you to meet. PNW will send you agenda materials for the meeting. If you know of other indexers who would like to meet for InSync Indexing and if you are willing to arrange a venue for your meeting, please contact us.

InSync Topics

InSync Indexing, PNW’s spring meeting, will be held on April 10th, 10:00am-1:00pm (Pacific time). The activities will accommodate all indexers from beginning to experienced.

1. There will be two peer review opportunities. A short index will be distributed to all attendees. In addition, we will review the index from The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week by Eviatar Zerubavel. Attendees are encouraged to look at this book in advance.

2. Marketing techniques. The marketing session is based on the excellent workshop presented at the 2009 ASI conference by Chapter member Madge Walls. We will look at specific techniques and finish with a round robin discussion of what has worked for each of us.

3. Shortcuts/macros demonstration. In this session, we will learn to simplify our indexing movements and increase our indexing speed with the use of abbreviations, shortcuts and macros. There will be at least one laptop at each meeting and the groups will be small enough for attendees to show and try out favorite and effective shortcuts. Even though indexers work with different software programs, watching other processes and sharing our own efficiency tools can improve everyone’s productivity.

More details are forthcoming via the PNW/ASI listserv.

**All indexers, whether ASI members or not, are invited to participate.

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Fall 2010 - formal meeting in August

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Spring 2011 - informal meeting(s)

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Past Indexing workshops and meetings
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Informal Gatherings / DrySider Gatherings / Other Gatherings

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