Adminstrative Council Minutes 4/26/2001
Present: Phyllis Thompson, Robin Schuckmann, Rachel Houghton, Patti
Loverink, Debbie Layton, Jeff Harris, Christine Champeaux, Christy 
Graunke,
Barry Shulak, Kate Evans
* The March minutes were approved.
* Rose Hill reports that 22 of 153 members have responded to the 
survey, a 14% return.
* Debbie Layton, Archivist, has interviewed Joel Ramey and will speak 
to Candis Condo.
* Patti shared thoughts she and Kymm have about program meetings for 
next year. Do we want to do a translation and localization round table 
this summer? Resumes, portfolios, and interviews are a popular topic. A 
meeting on interviewing SMEs would also be popular. We might ask Jean 
Richardson about a conflict management meeting; someone further 
suggested mediating cross cultural conflict. (Janet Marie Bennett at 
PSU is a contact for PSU's Center for Cross Cultural Studies.) Shall we 
see if Bill Horton is available? He was here about eight years ago. 
Robin suggested getting more visual communicators involved; some do not 
see themselves as technical
communicators.
* A question was raised: what would be involved is getting a student 
chapter going?
* Rachel said eight members are going to the Chicago conference.
* Robin reports that the next Galley e-zine deadline is June 15th. We
congratulated Robin on the latest editing issue and discussed possible
newsletter topics: training/ continuing education opportunities, career
development, ergonomics in home offices, a book column (talk to Garret 
and Jean Richardson), designing online, lone writers, and the technical 
writer as tester/ technical support.
* Barry Shulak has volunteered to update our membership directory. 
Issue:  printed (at a $1,200 cost w/o mailing) or online? We will 
revisit this issue after receiving survey results. Rose is coding the 
zoomerang.
* Christy will send out publicity once a week.
* Phyllis reports we have 17 members signed up for the senior member
breakfast.
* Jeff Harris updated us on the Web page status. The admin files are 
not on the site any more; they will be burned on a CD by Christine and 
Debbie. The site is now 1.7 kilobytes.
* Christine and Rachel will prepare a new competition handbook.