Awards and Professional Activities
Awards
Society
for Technical Communication
Three Distinguished Awards in Technical Publications, 2002
Three Excellence Awards in Technical Publications, 2002
Distinguished Award in Online Help Communication, 2000
Merit Award in Online Help Communication, 1997
Achievement Award in Software User Guides, 1997
Excellence Award in Software User Guides, 1995
Distinguished Award and Best of Show in Online Help systems, 1995
Excellence Award in Software User Guides, 1994
Excellence Award in Software Combination User and Reference Guides, 1994
Achievement Award in Software User Guides, 1994
Merit Award in Software User Guides, 1993
Merit Award in Software Combination User and Reference Guides, 1993
Excellence Award in Software User Guides, 1993
Excellence Award in Software User Guides, 1991
Distinguished Award in Software User Guides, 1990
Achievement Award in Design Graphics, 1989
Merit Award in Software User Guides, 1988
Professional Activities
American
Society of Indexers
Co-presented "Sailing Round Cape Horn: The Tools We Need Now for Indexing," National Conference, 2000
Presented "Keywording Online Help," National Conference, 1998
Presented "PageMaker Indexing," National Conference, 1998
Presented "Learning Indexing," Pacific Northwest Chapter, 1998
Co-presented "Indexing Online" with Lori Lathrop, Boulder Conference, 1997
Presented "Embedded Indexing", New Mexico Conference, 1997
Co-presented "Weaving Your Own Small Web" with Kari Kells, National Conference, 1996
Webmaster for ASI Web pages, 1995-1997; Member of Web committee, 1995 – 1998
Association
for Computing Machinery SIGDOC
Presented "Single-Source Indexing," National Conference, 2001
Society
for Technical Communication
Editor of the award-winning "A to Z: The Newsletter of STC's Indexing SIG," 1997 –
Presented “Questions and Answers about Indexing,” National Conference, 2002
Served as One-on-One evaluator for Indexing reviews, National Conference, 2002
Presented "Finding Online Information: Precision, Recall, and Frustration," Region 7 Conference, 2000
Presented "Scheduling and Estimating Indexes," National Conference, 1996
Presented "Windows Help Keywords," STC Oregon meeting, 1996
Served as a judge in the Puget Sound Chapter's annual competition, 1994 and 1995
Jan C. Wright
Wright Information Indexing Services
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