By Anjela Dukes


Serving as your vice president has only increased my enthusiasm about serving as your president this coming year! I am excited to have a chance to lead this extremely active chapter, which works hard to provide education and networking opportunities for its members!

I look forward to working with the administrative council, SIG leaders, and volunteers to evaluate, strengthen, and promote our chapter’s existing services and to identify additional member needs. And I look forward to hearing from you about how we can better serve you and further your career.

Here’s where I would like our chapter to focus this year:

• Develop an XML Resource Center to provide access to XML standards and training, authoring tools, and various XML organizations
• Hold our first local conference since 2002. A conference committee is recruiting volunteers to help organize and generate ideas for Tri-Doc 2005. Please visit the STC Carolina website at http://www.stccarolina.org/conference for more information about the conference and how to volunteer.
• Earn a Chapter of Distinction award. The Chapter Achievement award recognizes a chapter’s accomplishments in achieving Society goals. See http://www.stc.org/awards_chptachievement.asp for more information.
  After receiving the Chapter of Excellence award two years in a row, we plan this year to apply for and earn a Chapter of Distinction.

If would like to learn how to get more involved with our chapter, please send an email to me at adukes1 at nc dot rr dot com.