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Heartland Chapter of the American Society for Indexing

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ASI national conference reports
     2016  [Read]     
     2014  [Read]
     2013  [Read]     
     2012  [Read]     
     2011  [Read]
Book reviews
     The Accidental Taxonomist (Hedden)   [Read]
     Everything Is Miscellaneous (Weinberger)  [Read]
     Marketing Your Indexing Services (Leach)   [Read]
     The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed (D'Agnese)   [Read]
     My So-Called Freelance Life (Goodman)   [Read]
     Sticking Points: How to Get 4 Generations Working Together (Shaw)  [Read]
     Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace (Willard)  [Read]
Business, starting and running
     "Can I Quit my Day Job Yet?"  [Read]
     "Crafting your Indexer Locator Listing"  [Read]
     "An Indexer's Guide to Working with Clients (Kate Mertes)"  [Read]
     "Intentional Communication with Authors"  [Read]
     "Marketing for Introverts"  [Read]
     "Maximizing an Indexing Business"  [Read]
     "Networking in the Heartland"  [Read]
     "Playing the Marketing Game"  [Read]
     "The Small World of Local Networking"  [Read]
     "Spring Meeting Highlights (2011)"   [Read]
​     "Staying Organized: Before, During, and After"  [Read]
     "Staying Relevant in the Digital Landscape"  [Read]
     "Ten Time Management Tips from Diana Witt" [Read]
     "You Do What?"   [Read]
Controlled vocabularies. See Taxonomy
Database indexing
     "Spring Meeting Highlights (2011)"  [Read]
Digital Trends Task Force updates
    2013 (spring)   [Read]
    2012 (spring)   [Read] 
E-book indexing. See also Digital Trends Task Force
     "Dave Ream on E-book Indexing"  [Read] 
     "Indexing in the Age of E-books"   [Read]
Embedded indexing
     "Adobe InDesign CS6"   [Read]
     "Embedded Indexes" (WordEmbed)  [Read]
     "Notes on Using Sky with WordEmbed"  [Read]  
Ergonomics
     "Spring Meeting Highlights (2011)"  [Read]
Heartland meeting summaries
     2015 Spring  [Read]
     2014 Fall  [Read]     
     2014 Spring  [Read]     
     2013 Fall  [Read]
     2013 Spring  [Read]
     2012 Fall  [Read]
     2012 Spring  [Read]
     2011 Fall  [Read]
     2011 Spring  [Read]
HTML
     "Building Your Website with HTML"   [Read]
InDesign
     "Adobe InDesign CS6"   [Read]
Indexer profiles
     John Bealle   [Read] 
     Cherry Delaney   [Read]
     Margaret Hentz   [Read]    
     Maureen Johnson   [Read]     
     Meridith Murray   [Read]
     Mary Peterson   [Read]
     Carol Reed  [Read]
     Lisa Ryan  [Read]
​     Rachel Shaw  [Read]
     Thea Teich   [Read]
Indexing, automated
     "The Question That Won't Go Away"  [Read]
Indexing courses
     "Berkeley Online Indexing Course Review"  [Read]
Indexing, future of
     "Seth Maislin on the Unscalability of Indexing"  [Read]
Indexing practice
     
"On Aboutness (Kate Mertes)"  [Read]
     "Accuracy" (Creating Better Indexes, Part 6)  [Read]
     "Audience: Who Are You Talking To?"   [Read]
     "Common Sense (Creating Better Indexes, Part 2)"  [Read]
     "Comprehensiveness and Conciseness (Creating Better Indexes, Parts 4 and 5)"  [Read]
     "Consistency and Clarity (Creating Better Indexes, Parts 8 and 9)"  [Read]
     "Audiences and Accessibility (Creating Better Indexes, Part 10)"   [Read]
     "Indexing Evaluation Workshop"   [Read] 
     "Metatopic and Structure (Creating Better Indexes, Part 7)"  [Read]
     "Readability (Creating Better Indexes, Part 1)"   [Read]
     "Reflexivity (Creating Better Indexes, Part 3)"  [Read]
     "Writing for ASI Publications"  [Read]
Marketing
     Book Review: Marketing Your Indexing Services (Leach)   [Read]
     "Crafting your Indexer Locator Listing"  [Read]     
     "Marketing for Introverts"  [Read]
     "Networking in the Heartland"  [Read]
     "Playing the Marketing Game"  [Read]
     "Writing for ASI Publications"  [Read]
Richmond, Indiana
     "Places To Go, Things To See in Richmond"  [Read]
Software and tools
     HTML: "Building Your Website with HTML"   [Read]
     InDesign: "Adobe InDesign CS6"   [Read]
     Patterns: "Patterns in Indexing"  [Read]
     Regular expressions: "Saving Time with Regular Expressions"  [Read]
     Website builders: "Website Builders for Indexers"   [Read]
Taxonomy
    
 "The Accidental Taxonomist--An Overview"  [Read]  
     "If Everything Is Miscellaneous, What's an Indexer's Place in the World?"  [Read]
     "Seth Maislin on the Unscalability of Indexing"  [Read]
     "Spring Meeting Highlights (2011)"   [Read]
     "Taxonomy Boot Camp: Say What?"  [Read]
Textbook indexing
     "Fall Meeting Recap (2010)"  [Read]
Time management
     "Ten Time Management Tips from Diana Witt" [Read]
Usability
     "Sample Index Peer Review"  [Read]
Website design
     "Building Your Website with HTML"   [Read]
     "Website Builders for Indexers"   [Read]
Wilson Award
     "How Do They Do That?"  [Read]

Past newsletters (PDF)

Fall 2015
​Spring 2015
Fall 2014
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Spring 2011 ​
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