New and improved on the IASSIST website

Latest IASSIST Communiqué

Cornell University is hosting the 2010 conference, Social Data and Social Networking: Connecting Social Science Communities across the Globe. The conference takes place 1-4 June. The conference organisers will be making use of Twitter.
Presentations from the 2009 conference in Tampere are available on the conference website.
The conference manual has been updated by the 2009 conference chairs in the guidelines for hosting section.

Membership renewals and applications are now handled through the www.iassistdata.info site.
Pam Baxter has stepped down as Membership committee web liaison; the web team thanks her for her diligence over several years. Tuomas Alatera has replaced her.
IASSIST Officials page reflects the new officers who took up post at the 2009 Business meeting.

For purposes of long-term preservation, all conference powerpoints from 2000-2008 have been converted to PDF. These will be updated to the website shortly.
A major project to scan all articles back to the first issue of IASSIST Quarterly (IQ) is complete, except for a few gaps. These are gradually being prepared with links and HTML tables of contents. For now, virtually all issues have a scanned table of contents that can be viewed.
The latest IQ issue to be put on the web is Volume 32, numbers 1-4, 2008. According to the editorial, "We have collected the 1, 2, 3, and 4 issues into a single issue for 2008 in order to catch up with our schedule."

A new website is being designed using open source software, Drupal, for a content-managed, interactive website, to be integrated with the IASSIST blog.
A new logo has been commissioned and a new look and feel is being drafted by the same artist.
We have implemented Google Analytics for tracking and reporting usage of the entire website. If any members would like to have access to the web stats, contact the Web Editor, R.Rice AT ed.ac.uk.