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Hi! I'm not sure how you got here, but I'm glad you dropped by. If you're here because you know that we have a common interest and you're looking for pointers, I hope I've arranged things so that you can find what you want. If you're here to find out more about me, there should be a "mosaic" of facts that will paint a relatively accurate picture. In any event, to ask a more specific question, please send mail to shoemaker@acm.org or find me on Facebook or LinkedIn or in the more or less maintained personal blog, change.bbvx.org.

A Web Autobiography

Shoemaker Group: Technology consulting for nonprofits -- in particular building "small webs for large impacts"
Currently concentrating on WordPress implementations, e.g. www.asqraleigh.org
AAUW, 1994 -: Member, Technology Usability Working Group (2005-), AAUW
President (2006-2008), AAUW NC
Wiki manager, wiki.bbvx.org
Web manager (1996-present), Raleigh/Wake County branch
Web manager (2001-present), AAUW NC
Technology Chair (2000-2005), AAUW NC
Member, Program Development Committee, (2001-2003), AAUW
Notes on Technology at AAUW 2001 convention
IT 2001 rabble rouser and (2005) founder of bbvx.org
EF Fundraiser through nature photo sales
Involved in NC Women United as alternate from AAUW NC, web manager, board member (2002-2006) and more.
HAHT Commerce, Inc., Raleigh, NC: Technical Support, Training, System Administration Consulting, 1996-2001
HAHT Software was an "Internet Startup" when I joined it in 1996, just as it release version 1.0 of HAHTsite. In 2005, they were purchased by GXS.
Mississippi State University and Starkville, MS: Faculty wife, student, etc., 1993-95. Where I first joined AAUW ...
PRC, (mostly Realty Systems) McLean, VA: UNIX System Administration, Training, 1986-1993
PRC was a large government contracting company with a small commercial piece dominated by the Realty Systems section providing IT solutions to the real estate industry. Realty Systems may have survived at the link noted above. PRC has been bought and is now, I think, part of Northrup-Grummon.
ICASE, Hampton, VA: UNIX System Administration, 1982-1986
ICASE, the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, has ceased operation. It was operated by USRA at NASA Langley Research Center.

Oakland University, Rochester, MI: Faculty, 1979-1981
SUNY Albany, Albany, NY: Faculty, 1977-1979
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY: Student, 1973-1977
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: Student wife, Computer Support, 1972-1973
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI: Student, 1971-1972

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA: Student, 1967-1971
Class agent (fundraiser), 2003-

University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia: Summer High School Student, 1967
Longmeadow Public Schools, Longmeadow, MA.: Student, 1956-1967

Professional Interests

Professional Societies, etc.

NTEN, Nonprofit Technology Network
STC, Society for Technical Communication: STC-Carolina
TriPUG, Triangle PHP Users' Group
USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association.: NC*SA, NC System Administrators; SAGE, The System Administrators' Guild
Association for Computing Machinery
Triangle Web Technology Women - (TW)^2

Publications/Presentations

Paula Jones and Nancy Shoemaker, Presentation at Research Triangle Net Tuesday meetup, September 9, 2008.

Discussion and demo of online communication and conferencing tools. See also summary of the meeting at nccommunities.org.

Nancy Shoemaker, The NCWU Virtual Office, presentation to NCWU Board, August 26, 2008

Part of the board orientation

Nancy Shoemaker, 'Net Collaboration on the Cheap, STC Carolina Communiqué, Q2 2008

Nancy Shoemaker, Tech Session at AAUW NC 2007 Fall Meeting - info on new www.aauw.org and new aauwnc.org

High Point, October 19, 2007

Nancy Shoemaker, Presentations at AAUW 2007 Convention, Phoenix

Information on the Member Services Database - part of presentation on the new website
Webmanagers special interest group - info on what the webmanagers needed to know/do

Nancy Shoemaker, Beyond E-mail: Using New Tools to Connect with your Stakeholders and Spread Your Message, NC Center for Nonprofits Conference, Sept. 21, 2006.

See shoemakergroup.com for slides, handouts and more.

Betty Bayless and Nancy Shoemaker, Technology Workshop, AAUW South Atlantic/Southeast Central Joint Regional Conference, June 11, 2006.

See wiki.bbvx.org Web Tour for the basis of this presentation and the handouts. The presentation was repeated by Betty and Fong Cheng at the 2006 AAUW Conference of State Leaders, June 24, 2006.

Nancy's Magic Show: Technology and AAUW, updates and tips. AAUW NC Convention, April 16, 2005.

Web site with links to the information presented.

Nancy Shoemaker, "Information gathering tools and their uses: Forms on RTPnet", RTPnet Fourth Annual Conference, Chapel Hill, May 30, 2003.

More information

Sue Metz and Nancy Shoemaker, "Selling AAUW", Workshop for AAUW NC 2003 Summer Leadership Conference, High Point, July 20, 2002. Based on a workshop from the Association Membership department. See the booklet for complete credits.

Overview, Booklet, Slides

Nancy Shoemaker, et.al. Sharing session at the AAUW South Atlantic Regional Conference, Tampa, FL, June 8, 2002.

Summary from all states, North Carolina Handout (including Technology manifesto)

Nancy Shoemaker, "Communications, Technology and AAUW". Presentation to NCSU COM 250 class, June 11, 2002. Note that some of the details here may be estimates used for purposes of illustration.

Presentation

Rachel Fuller and Nancy Shoemaker, Workshop for 7th graders: "Programming for the Web", Expanding Your Horizons Conference, NCSU, March 12, 2002.

Summary and Resources

Nancy Shoemaker, "AAUW NC Web sites", AAUW Greensboro meeting, Jan. 12, 2002.

Handout

Wendy Armour Dickinson and Nancy Shoemaker, "Tech-Savvy in the Branches" SIG, AAUW Convention, June 24, 2001.

Handout, Summary of Discussion

Nancy Shoemaker, "Web Workshops: Women and Math Mentoring, AAUW, and HAHT Commerce", AAUW Raleigh/Wake County branch meeting, November 16, 2000.

Handout, Slides
More information (2001)

Nancy Shoemaker, "Technology Workshop", AAUW NC Convention, April 8, 2000.

Slides

Lauren Crowley and Nancy Shoemaker, "Going Online: Publishing on the World Wide Web", AAUW Convention workshop, June, 1999.

Slides, Handout, Glossary

Betty Jacob and Nancy Shoemaker, "The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(R): An Interpersonal Tool for System Administrators", USENIX System Administration Conference (LISA VII), Supplementary Materials, November, 1993, pp. 7-15.

Abstract
Full text of paper: PDF (83KB)

Multiple Objective Linear Programming papers (1977-81).

I'd suggest you contact
Prof. J.G. Ecker, eckerj@rpi.edu
if you are interested in this.

To reach my husband, Stephen F. Davis, you can send mail to sfdavis@alum.rpi.edu.