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ASSOCIATION
NEWS
Member Logo (Revised on 7/24)
The IWA logo has been modified to
better represent our membership
categories. There now two versions, one to
represent regular members ("Member") and
other to indicate associate member status
("Associate"). Please revisit the
guidelines
and get yourself a copy of the proper
logo.
Senior Designation Program
In June, IWA recognized Novell's
Internet and Site Manager certification
programs as approved programs that
will satisfy the education requirement for
IWA's Senior Member designation ("SIWA")
which is under development. The IWA is
designing the SIWA designation to
recognize those professional members who
possess an advanced level of skill,
knowledge, and professionalism within the
Web related industry. Read
Novell 's Press Release:
Resource Center Is Now Open:
IWA Webmaster Resource
Center is now available for use. IWA
is instituting a program whereby members
who have an interest in gaining exposure
of their specialized skills will be able
to maintain and redevelop a section within
the resource center. If interested, please
send your requests to
webmaster@irwa.org.
Language Centre Begins Redesign of
its Site
If you are a Web developer and things
are a little slow, lend a helping hand to
IWA
Language Centre to "strut your stuff".
Please send interests to Richard
Tuttle, LC Director
NEW! The IWA Language Centre now has
a member's E-list.
If you are interested in anything to do
with the IWA
Language Centre or Web
internationalization and would like to
join our mailing list, please send an
e-mail message to mailto:IWA-Language-request@s1.net
with the following message: subscribe
IWA-Language <your first name>
<your last name>. Please direct
questions, to Richard Tuttle, IWA Language
Centre Director, mailto:lcdirector@irwa.org.
New Membership Categories and Dues
Structure Next Month
In early August, IWA will announce
revised membership categories and dues for
1998. We can tell you there will be four
membership categories to include.
Associate, Regular, Certified, and Senior
member. IWA does not plan to offer
corporate memberships at anytime so as to
remain solely as an individual membership
association.
REGIONAL NEWS: IWA
Expands its Global Presence
Regional Boundaries of IWA
The Association is organized in a three
tier structure which are international,
regional, and chapter levels. Regional
boundaries are to be established primarily
on the bases of governmental influences
and geographic boundaries. Several other
inherent characteristics are considered
when determining boundaries including
time, cultural, language, and political
differences.
Regional Goals and Objectives
A Region's goals will concentrate on
establishing greater communication between
members and developing a virtual chapter
network.
New Regions Announced
We are proud to announce the
appointment of the following regional
chairpersons:
IWA France:
Jeremie
Berrebi, Webmaster-Web Director of
Push
Contact,will be overseeing the
developments of IWA France. Before the
founding of PushContact, Mr. Berrebi 's
prior experiences gained him popularity
within France's Web community as an editor
for ZD Net-France and a systems operator
for the CompuServe network. IWA France is
preparing to launch the Paris
chapter web site and begin
implementing its membership campaign.
Miguel
Fiallos, IWA Language
Chairperson-French will be overseeing
language translation of IWA content for
the Paris chapter's web site. This is an
excellent example of how IWA Language
Center is proving to be an invaluable
asset in IWA's efforts to becoming truly
global.
IWA Italy:
Howard
Litzford, Luna-Park, and Marco
Masciadri, Lemax, are joining their
talents to bring IWA Italy to the world.
Luna-Park
and Lemax
are Italy's leading web development
companies. Regional objectives for IWA
Italy is to raise the standard of the
webmaster's art in Italy and to support
the growing network of Internet
professionals working in this region.
IWA Ireland:
Fergal
Byrne, Adnet,
Inc., has been appointed as IWA
Ireland's regional chairperson. As Adnet's
director of information design, Mr. Byrne
has established Adnet as a recognized
resource as a full internet services
provider to corporate and business
organizations throughout Ireland.
IWA
Ireland will initially focus on
establishing concrete methods for
developers/suppliers to ensure a base
level of project management and
answerability for their work.
Recruitment of Regional Board
Members:
Recruiting is underway for regional
chairpersons and their board members.
Qualified IWA members may apply by sending
a letter of interest including background,
organizational experience, and proposed
goals for region to Richard Brinegar at
mailto:rbrinegar@irwa.org.
CHAPTER NEWS:
Application for New Chapters:
Due to the recent increase in numbers
of applications received for new chapters,
IWA's review and approval process will now
be prioritized by the chapter proposals
that represent larger metropolitan areas,
or until more regions are established to
handle the applications. International
will continue to accept
applications and will respond at the
earliest possible time. All applications
will be received at the international
level and forwarded onto to respective
regional review committees if established.
Primary Objectives of Chapters:
1. Develop and maintain a chapter Web
site for the purpose of an effective
communication medium between members,
community, and businesses.
2. Promote the services of our members
to businesses and employers.
3. Establish a local professional
network of local Webmasters and Webmaster
specialists for the purpose of exchanging
information and ideas.
New Chapters Announced
Southern
Nevada-Las Vegas Chapter
Gregory
Jerome, IT Director,Ves
International, Inc., and IWA
chairperson has now released the chapter's
objectives and Web site.
North
Bay Chapter
Ariel
Wada, CIO, Interactive
Solutions, Inc., and IWA chairperson
has developed, along with several active
bay area members. This chapter originally
grew out of the IWA Marin County chapter
which believed an expanded chapter
territory would improve effectiveness to
increase membership and attract
supporters.
Chapter Membership Policy
Changed
IWA has recently changed its policy
on chapter membership which is to have
all IWA members join a local chapter based
on their geographic region. IWA has chosen
this structure to increase our influence
with other regional groups, employers,
sponsors, etc. Not too mention, the
increase in opportunities for members to
establish professional contacts.. Once a
chapter is established in your region, all
members will be approached to update their
member profiles to include the chapter's
proper URL.
New Technology
Announcements.
Here are two important developments in
the multilanguage field.
HTML
4.0 Draft Released by
W3C:
Besides bringing greater capabilities
to web designers and providing improved
access to the disabled through increased
speech and braille technology, HTML 4.0
validates the internationalization efforts
of the IWA. Richard Tuttle, director of
IWA Language Centre ("LC"), recognizes
this advancement as big step in improving
management of mulitlanguage pages and
current technology of Web based language
translation software. For further
information about the internationalization
of the Internet, read WebSite
Translation, an article by the Richard
Tuttle.
Multilanguage
Chat Software by Uni-verse:
Here is the first real time
multilanguage chat software. Uni-Verse
currently provides multi-directional
machine translation in six languages:
English, French, German, Italian,
Portuguese, and Spanish with more
languages on the way.
MEMBER
PROFILES
IWA will be instituting a program which
will profile selected members from our
member database. Our goal is to encourage
networking through the use of IWA's
searchable member database and to broaden
our knowledge by gaining new perspectives
from other personal work experiences and
methods. We plan to do more than two
profiles as we did this time as we think
it will be "easy fishing" since we have
hundreds of professional members who are
just a click away: http://www.irwa.org/advancedsearch.html
Craig
Landwehr, Marketing Systems Leader of
Owens Corning, was one of IWA's original
members to join in January 1997. Writing
this profile is going to be easy as
WebMaster Magazine (TM) covered him and
his webmaster team this month. The feature
article is titled "So
Many Ideas, So Little Site"
http://www.cio.com/WebMaster/070197_priority.html
. After reading this article you'll have a
greater understanding of his Speciality as
he provided in his
member profile as being: Application
and Leveraging of Information Technology
to Achieve Business Goals and Strategy.
Bill
Mclain, Webmaster@Xerox. Customer
service at Xerox
is top priority and when most companies
are out sourcing this specialized service,
Bill Mclain and a small staff of employees
are delivering a quality service which is
building goodwill with customers and a
cost savings to Xerox. Here is his recipe
for Web customer service:
1. Answer every message (even if it has
nothing to do with Xerox). It's only
courteous to do so.
2. Answer within 24 hours.
3. Provide an answer (don't give them a
number to call; call the number yourself,
get the answer, and send it to the
customer.
Bill Mclain has probably been featured
and interviewed more times than any other
Webmaster. Here are two of his countless
interviews:
Net
Marketing Magazine, CNN
Online:
SPONSORSHIP:
IWA currently operates solely on
technical resources provided by its
sponsors and on the human resources
provided by its members. We always ask you
to consider their products and/or services
as it is the least we can do.
Proxicom:
Leader in Online Discussion Forums and our
proud sponsor. Please check out their
product line and let them know we sent
you. http://www.proxicom.com
ListCentral:
Provides IWA with our mailing list service
and software. IWA recommends all their
products and services. If you need a
mailing list or ten, this is your one stop
shop. Contact is Criag
Schneider at Listcentral.com
NEXT
ISSUE:
INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE AND ELECTIONS
CERTIFIED MEMBER QUALIFICATIONS
COMMUNICATION & NETWORKING TOOLS FOR
MEMBERS
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW ALLIANCES
AND MORE
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