[Sigtis-l] SIG SI Newsletter

[Richard Hill]

Hello all SIG SI members! At our business meeting at ASIS&T 2012 in
Baltimore it was decided to begin a SIG SI newsletter, to be coordinated by
new Secretary Lysanne Lessard. It aims at gathering all SI-related
activities in one place, in order to improve the visibility of SI activities
in general and of SIG SI within ASIS&T. We're aiming for two newsletters per
year, more or less one for the Fall semester and one for the Spring
semester. Each newsletter will enumerate SI-related activities (talks,
conferences, publications, events) that happened during that semester.

If you are aware of SI-related activities taking place on your campuses, at
conferences that you're attending, or elsewhere, we ask that you send
Lysanne and me an
e-mail: lysanne.lessard at mail.utoronto.ca and adam at adamworrall.org. You don't
need to summarize or write about it (although you can!), but simply send us
a link, or title with info and short description. If the event hasn't
happened yet, or is happening as you're sending it in, I will spread the
word via our Facebook group, Twitter account, and/or the SIG SI listserv as
appropriate. At the end of the semester, Lysanne will compile all the
notices into a newsletter which will be edited collectively by the officers.
The newsletter will then be sent to the ASIST community as well as posted on
our (new, not yet up) website.

Of course, activities of interest to the Social Informatics community do not
always bear that name, but please send in anything that you find relevant
and we'll assess it. Since this is a new endeavor, we would also welcome
your ideas on how to make the newsletter more attractive! If you wish to do
so, you could also contribute original material (reviews, summaries of
events, etc.).

In terms of deadlines, our first newsletter will contain all notices sent to
Lysanne by December 15. It will then be distributed in early January.
Anything after December 15 will be part of our Spring newsletter (deadline
TBD). Please e-mail Lysanne if you have any questions about the newsletter,
and thanks in advance for your contributions!

Adam Worrall (FSU) & Lysanne Lessard (Toronto)
Communications Officer & Secretary, SIG SI
adam at adamworrall.org | lysanne.lessard at mail.utoronto.ca



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Richard Hill
ASIS&T Executive Director
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD 20910
FAX: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900
rhill at asis.org