Since this discussion group is just getting started, and we don't yet have enough people to get a lot of input on questions and topics yet, let's just start...
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scooter58ca
Feb 3, 2005 3:53 pm
Hi everyone, By way of introduction, I am a freelance indexer in Toronto, Canada, who got started on this path while I was working as senior editor at an...
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Ted Laux
ted_laux
Feb 4, 2005 2:20 am
Hi folks, Thanks to Heather for rejuvenating this group. As a freelance back-of-the-book indexer for the past 18 years, I have now written well over 1000...
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levtechinc
Feb 4, 2005 6:14 pm
Hello, group, I'm with Leverage Technologies, which is a vendor. We don't do indexing but work with many, many indexers. We do have a product which Heather has...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 6, 2005 3:08 am
(Apologies for duplicate messages to individuals and those on the web-indexing discussion group.) One of our new Web Indexing SIG members, Joshua Dugdale, is...
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scooter58ca
Feb 6, 2005 8:24 pm
Hi everyone, My thoughts about the searchable database are as follows: (1) Searchable fields: I agree with Heather's suggestions here. It wouldn't hurt to put...
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Ray Davis Curry
ray_davis_curry
Feb 7, 2005 1:08 am
Hello! I'm Ray and new to ASI. A little more about me is on the site www.currythoughtsolutions.net. I did indexes for Wireless Profits (1 is a website index)...
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Karen Duran
kduranaz
Feb 7, 2005 3:40 am
... I respectfully disagree. A person's state of residence could very well be relevant if an employer is looking for an in-house contractor because of...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 7, 2005 3:56 pm
Cheryl, Thanks for your suggestions. (2) Types of indexing. Yes, we should add "back-of-the-book-style" web site indexes, and site maps. I debated whether to...
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Ted Laux
ted_laux
Feb 11, 2005 1:30 pm
Hi folks, In back of the book indexing, many indexers have found work by searching through Literary Marketplace to make a list of publishers and their contact ...
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Glenda Browne
index4fun
Feb 12, 2005 1:11 am
Marketing web indexing is much harder than marketing book indexing services where there is at least an established market. The best approach, I believe, is...
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html_indexer
Feb 12, 2005 4:10 am
... I'm primarily a tech writer who indexes his own books, help systems, and HTML file sets. It was the lack of a dedicated indexing tool for that last...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 12, 2005 5:32 am
Yes, marketing in is the main problem in freelance web indexing. The question is: who are our main clients? web developers, web designers, information...
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Cheryl Lemmens
scooter58ca
Feb 12, 2005 7:06 pm
Hi everyone, My own Web site indexing experience probably doesn't provide much help here since I've never really marketed this skill (as a newcomer to...
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Ted Laux
ted_laux
Feb 21, 2005 7:43 pm
A question for Heather, and others who have produced site maps. I noticed on the Carlisle school site (http://www.carlisle.mec.edu/) that in addition to...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 21, 2005 8:47 pm
Ted, It's good that you bring up the subject of site maps. If a web site back-of-the-book style index is like the index at the back of a book, then the site...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 25, 2005 7:13 pm
For those of you who are up to it, speaking at conferences (beyond those of the indexing societies) about web site indexing is a great way to promote yourself...
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eleanor lisney
elisney
Feb 25, 2005 8:16 pm
Hello web indexing listers, This seems to be a good time for me to jump in and introduce myself since I am the person that Heather mentioned in her post....
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 26, 2005 2:31 am
For the Web Indexing SIG site, we have several articles on the general subject of A-Z web site indexes and why they are a good idea. It would be good to get...
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Cheryl Lemmens
scooter58ca
Feb 26, 2005 4:32 pm
Hi everyone, Just as an addendum to Heather's suggestion, submitting articles to journals - either print or online - would also be a good way of promoting Web...
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Karen Lane
klane36
Feb 26, 2005 4:38 pm
As a follow-up to Heather's message: if you're sending articles to me for posting on the site, please put something in the subject line of the e-mail that...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Mar 3, 2005 12:35 am
Hi, Since Kevin Broccoli is no longer offering his online course in website indexing (which I just learned about a few weeks ago), I have decided to offer...
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Cheryl Lemmens
scooter58ca
Mar 3, 2005 10:14 pm
Hi everyone, As I noted in a previous posting to the list, the site index I created for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto was...
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dmbrown@...
html_indexer
Mar 3, 2005 11:27 pm
All the work I've done has been on an hourly basis (or salaried, of course), but hourly rates are probably more acceptable to folks who are used to working...
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Glenda Browne
index4fun
Mar 4, 2005 12:46 am
For 'back-of-book-style' web indexing, I've been paid hourly. For online help indexing I've been paid hourly as an onsite contractor. For thesaurus ...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Mar 5, 2005 3:56 pm
Web Indexing SIG membership dues, of just $5.00/year, can now be paid by check, PayPal, or major credit card via PayPal (in which an account with PayPal is not...
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eleanor lisney
elisney
Mar 9, 2005 7:55 pm
Heather mentioned attendance at conferences and speaking on web indexing at them. Here is the call for proposals from the sister conference of Museum and the ...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Mar 10, 2005 6:11 pm
This topic was first raised when the Web Indexing SIG web site and this group were still new. The web site has a directory (a subset of the members) of...
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Cheryl Lemmens
scooter58ca
Mar 11, 2005 1:30 am
Both "Types of web indexing" and "Types of sites/documents" look complete to me. With regard to "Subject matter/industries," the only addition I would suggest...
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Glenda Browne
index4fun
Mar 11, 2005 3:10 am
inCite, the journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, has a section that notes interesting web sites and documents. The March 2005 issue...
