It's time for our next Indexing Playground, a networking opportunity for ASI members.
Indexing Playground—Client Types
March 12, 2025
10 am Pacific; 11 am Mountain; 12 pm Central; 1 pm Eastern
For many indexers, work is solitary. You spend time with your current project then move on to the next one. You face both indexing and business challenges on your own, and some days you yearn for workmates, even if it’s for a short chat. At those times, it can help to connect with other indexers.
That’s why we created the Indexing Playground. Every few months, we get together to chat with other indexers in an informal, safe environment created just for ASI members. To date, our Indexing Playgrounds were well received with a loud chorus of, "Let's do this again!"
Each playground has a common interest. You’re welcome to stay in one or move to a new playground, as long as you respect the focus of that playground.
Our theme for the upcoming Indexing Playground on March 12 is client types. Chat with your fellow indexers about the client types you enjoy or the ones you'd like to learn more about.
In each room a host will welcome you and get the ball rolling. We’ll meet via Zoom and break into these playgrounds:
- Authors with a Publisher—Johnna Dinse
- Self-publishing Authors—Amy Hall
- Trade Publishers—Nan Badgett
- University Presses/Scholarly Publishers—Jola Komornicka
Join us on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 for our next playground at 10 a.m. Pacific / 1 p.m. Eastern.
ASI members, log in for the Zoom link you will use to join the Indexing Playground.
The name Indexing Playground was inspired by Margie Towery (Ten Characteristics of Quality Indexes). She said when she is indexing, she thinks “about creating a playground. Audiences arrive at the playground with diverse knowledge, experience, emotions, goals, and so on. The index serves as the playground in which audiences enter the world of the text.” On our playground, indexers with diverse knowledge will come together to have fun and talk about shared experiences.
If you have an idea for a future playground theme or would like to host a playground, contact Shelley Quattrocchi or Gwen Henson.
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