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The Quality and Process Improvement SIG is working on a proposal for a progression at the Technical Communication Summit, the 54th annual conference of STC to be held May 13 through 16, 2007 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

If you are planning to attend the 2007 Annual Conference and would like to participate in a progression sponsored by the Quality and Process Improvement SIG, please send the information listed below to Sharon.Lynn@shawgrp.com by August 18, 2006. (more…)

Please welcome our 45 new members who joined in June, 2006. As of June 30 the Quality and Process Improvement SIG had 903 members. This will be the official size of the SIG for the 2006 to 2007 STC year. In comparison, on June 30, 2005 the QPI SIG had 457 members. As of June 30, 2006 there were 14,463 members in STC.

This starts a resource list on standards.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology of the United States maintains a site, http://standards.gov, that is a portal to infomation on the specifications referred to in US goverment regulations. Included are a searchable database and links to websites on standards maintained by government and other agencies.

This starts a list of resources on the topic of quality management. The QPI SIG also has a list of quality management standards.

The BetterManagement site identifies resources for management of performance and information technology as well as financial management: http://www.bettermanagement.com

The following are organizations outside the US that focus on quality, with their web addresses:

National Quality Institute (NQI), Canada, http://www.nqi.ca

European Organization for Quality (EOQ), http://www.eoq.org

Hungarian Quality Database of the Hungarian Society for Quality, http://www.ezaz.hu/quality

Pakistan Institue of Quality Control, http://www.piqc.com.pk

Saudi National Quality Committee, http://www.snqc.org

Business Excellence Australia (BEA), a division of Standards Australia International (SAI), formerly Australian Quality Council, http://www.sai-global.com/professionalservices

Diane Evans, member of the Puget Sound chapter and the Quality and Process Improvement SIG, published the article “Document Control Systems” in the April 2006 issue of STC’s Intercom magazine. The article reviews configuration management, document control software, and search engines and emphasizes the importance of business rules in effective operation of document control systems.