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Is there a potential role for freelance indexers, who are experienced with
working in HTML, to create A-Z indexes on portions of intranets, such as
employee policies and benefits? Do owners of intranets outsource tasks such as
these? Is there an interest in having browsable alphabetical back-of-the-book
style indexes on sections of intranets?

Heather Hedden
Coordinator, Web Indexing Special Interest Group
American Society of Indexers
http://www.web-indexing.org


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Is there a potential role for freelance indexers, who are experienced with working in HTML, to create A-Z indexes on portions of intranets, such as employee...
Heather Hedden
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Jun 2, 2005
1:12 pm

Heather, we have such an index on our enterprise intranet, we maintain it manually using HTML (or a wysiwyg cms program) by our internal web team (full time...
Jeremiah Owyang
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Jun 2, 2005
6:08 pm

Heather Great to hear about your specialization in Indexing! Can you describe to us common and best practice methods to determining nomenclature for index...
Jeremiah Owyang
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Jun 3, 2005
10:16 pm

... One recommended approach is to get away from the situation where content is structured along organisational lines. Experience has shown that users have...
James Robertson
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Jun 4, 2005
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Thanks for your questions, Jeremiah. One of the virtues of a true index, and not a mere directory, is the "double-posting" of the same entity under different...
Heather Hedden
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Jun 5, 2005
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... It sure is! I've personally worked with a professional indexer here in Australia, to develop suitable metadata and A-Z indexes for a corporate intranet. ...
James Robertson
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Jun 3, 2005
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