“Your 21st Century Marketing Strategy” at ASI San Antonio in April 2013

Paul Sweum has been part of ASI’s marketing team for its national conference since Minneapolis in 2010, and also blogs about the conferences

This April 20, at the annual conference for the American Society for Indexing in San Antonio, Texas, Paul will be conducting a comprehensive three-hour marketing workshop for attendees.

The 2013 ASI conference spans April 17-20 at Hotel Contessa, located on San Antonio’s historic river walk.

The workshop, “Your 21st Century Marketing Strategy,” expands on a presentation Paul co-hosted with Steven Ingle of WordCo at the same industry conference in San Diego in 2012. While Paul and Steven focused on how to develop client relationships, Paul is expanding the focus to include planning and preparation in marketing through a three hour workshop.

PNW-ASI Fall 2012 Meeting in Vancouver, WA on September 29

The Water Resources Education Center in Vancouver, Washington

WHAT: The Pacific Northwest Chapter of ASI will be holding a fall chapter meeting

WHEN: Sat. September 29

WHERE: The Water Resources Center (WRC) in Vancouver, Washington

DETAILS: Are available at the PNW-ASI website (or read below), and you may access the registration packet at this link

We will also be gathering for dinner at 6 pm on Friday, September 28 at McMenamin’s on the Columbia and Saturday at Thai Orchid (dinners not included in registration fee). Our board meeting will be held Sunday at the Comfort Inn in downtown Vancouver.

From the PNW-ASI Vice-President

Paul Sweum, Indexer | Technical Writer | Editor | Biz Blogger for Top Hat Word & Index

Chapter meeting planning: a fantastic experience, good for the org, and great for your business. Oh, and it just got easier!

by Paul Sweum, 2012 PNW-ASI Vice-President

When I look at the shoes I’ve had to fill as the chapter’s Vice-President this year, and how to echo my sentiments with my meeting planning experience, I realize a stellar roadmap was set before me….so I’ll begin by describing the great work I had to build on and those I have seen in action since I attended my first PNW-ASI meeting in 2008.

PNW-ASI to host first 2012 meeting June 9 at Bastyr University

The Pacific Northwest chapter of the American Society for Indexing (PNW-ASI) will be holding its spring meeting in the Seattle area June 9, 2012 at the beautiful Bastyr University campus located in Kenmore, Washington.

Click here to immediately access the PNW-ASI meeting page for all the details you need, or you may read about more of the details further on in this post.

ASI San Diego: Workshops, welcome receptions, & a little art

Thursday was the day for pre-conference workshops at ASI’s annual conference, while more indexers arrived for networking receptions and the regular sessions to come.

The various workshop options to choose from were Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation with Heather Hedden, Indexing in InDesign with Jan Wright, Crash Course in Book Indexing with Seth Maislin, Getting Started in Indexing with Madge Walls, and Double Posting and its Friends with Enid Zafran.

ASI San Diego: The Lavish Bahia Resort & initial events

A sketch of Tuesday and Wednesday’s events and random occurrences at ASI’s 2012 Annual Conference

ASI definitely went for the Cadillac version of facilities for its annual conference this year, in sunny (at times) San Diego!

After picking up my conference roommate at the San Diego airport Tuesday (and following a detour to Rancho Santa Fe for the best street tacos on the planet at Fidel’s Little Mexico), we checked in to the Bahia Resort Hotel on West Mission Bay Drive.

Baseball & urban renewal: The “green” Marlins Park as another adrenaline shot

A pre-construction rendering of Marlins Park, courtesy of the Miami Marlins

While MLB’s newest ballpark is simply another step in franchise efforts to bolster revenue streams — as a component of a larger blueprint to spawn urban renewal for American cities — the modern design of this new “green” gem breaks rank from a quarter century of retro-style ballparks