Awards
Society for Technical Communication
Excellence Award in Technical Publications, 2007
Two Merit Awards in Technical Publications, 2007
Merit Award, Newsletter Competition, for A to Z, 2002
Distinguished SIG Service Award for the Indexing SIG, 2002
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
University of California at Berkeley
Jan Wright is also now teaching a section of the UC Berkeley course on Indexing: Theory and Application. The course is a 6-month commitment, students can start at any time, and is conducted entirely online via web-based lessons and email assignments. The emphasis is on indexing theory and practice, indexing as a business, and related topics. For more information, visit Berkeley's Extension Catalog here.
American Society of Indexers
Presented "Embedded Indexing," National
Conference, 2007
Co-Presented "Managing
a Multi-Volume Indexing Project: An Evolutionary Approach," National
Conference, 2003
Presented "A Software Field Trip," National Conference, 2003
Presented "Finding Online Information: Precision, Recall, and Frustration,"
Arizona Chapter, 2001
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 ? present
Presented session on reusing indexing skills in "Indexing Progression,"
National Conference, 2004
Presented "Index Evaluation Workshop, National Conference, 2004
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
New Mexico Library Association
Presented "Everything That's Old is New Again," Annual Conference, 2003
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