Hi All
Kindle has arrived yipeeee!!!
What on earth am I talking about, I have no idea, all the twenty somethings in my office were banging on about the kindle has reached the UK. I sit there nodding trying to look enthusiastic and look like I know what the hell they are talking about.
It turns out it is a book, well I say a book it is a device that stores content. It was made by Amazon and if you own a kindle you can download e-books onto it and you have access to other digital media you can download. So you can download a newspaper onto it or a journal onto it, or articles onto it, anything digital i suppose.
On October the 19th the kindle reached the UK (hence the excitement) it is called Kindle 2 (international edition).
On Amazon.com there are about 300,000 items available to download.
Low and behold sitting on the train this morning this chap pulled one out of his briefcase (easy). It looked quite neat, I saw he was reading the Times newspaper that I assumed he had downloaded that morning. But no he started getting live news, so it is wireless too.
I then got glared at as I was now staring at his small screen and then a loud tut, so I had to go back to my paper based book which has the great look and smell and feel of.... well a book.
Must admit though it would save a lot of wall space on my bookshelves.
Toodle pip.
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Friday, 9 October 2009
An election message from the president of ISMTE
October is a very important month for our society with two important activities that have to be undertaken.
ISMTE is to hold its first elections. The Executive Committee, as per our bylaws, chose the slate for 2010 including the positions of President and Secretary. This year all candidates are running unopposed. Despite this fact, legally we are obligated to hold a vote and you will be able to vote for the candidates via a personalized email sent by ISMTE.
Full details regarding the candidates and the election process can be found in the October issue of EON, now available at www.ismte.org. All the candidates have contributed significant effort over the last year towards advancing the aims of the society. There will be several opportunities to join the board in 2011, and new faces with fresh ideas and a willingness to work hard on behalf of the society are always welcome. Critical to an appointment to the board is a demonstrated record of committee work, an issue that segues nicely into our next important October initiative…
ISMTE is to make significant efforts to get its committees functioning industriously. Our goal is to dramatically strengthen the resources we offer and the training we provide. Members have expressed an interest in seeing greater depth to both areas. It is important to remember ISMTE is not a corporation but a volunteer-run organization. We launched so we could learn from one another, and being a part of either the resource or training committee, and developing materials alongside peers, represents a tremendous step towards meeting our educational goals. It is also a great way to make new friends and contacts. Additionally, we are looking for talented individuals that can help our membership and meeting planning committees. If you are interested in getting involved with a committee please let me know as soon as possible at journal@ahsnet.org.
Committees will be convening later this month so please let me know quickly.
Finally, we hope to be able to announce to members soon the appointment of a new executive director to replace Beverlee, who so unexpectedly died last month. This will ensure we are back to operating with 100% management efficiency.
Best wishes
Jason Roberts, PhD
President, ISMTE
ISMTE is to hold its first elections. The Executive Committee, as per our bylaws, chose the slate for 2010 including the positions of President and Secretary. This year all candidates are running unopposed. Despite this fact, legally we are obligated to hold a vote and you will be able to vote for the candidates via a personalized email sent by ISMTE.
Full details regarding the candidates and the election process can be found in the October issue of EON, now available at www.ismte.org. All the candidates have contributed significant effort over the last year towards advancing the aims of the society. There will be several opportunities to join the board in 2011, and new faces with fresh ideas and a willingness to work hard on behalf of the society are always welcome. Critical to an appointment to the board is a demonstrated record of committee work, an issue that segues nicely into our next important October initiative…
ISMTE is to make significant efforts to get its committees functioning industriously. Our goal is to dramatically strengthen the resources we offer and the training we provide. Members have expressed an interest in seeing greater depth to both areas. It is important to remember ISMTE is not a corporation but a volunteer-run organization. We launched so we could learn from one another, and being a part of either the resource or training committee, and developing materials alongside peers, represents a tremendous step towards meeting our educational goals. It is also a great way to make new friends and contacts. Additionally, we are looking for talented individuals that can help our membership and meeting planning committees. If you are interested in getting involved with a committee please let me know as soon as possible at journal@ahsnet.org.
Committees will be convening later this month so please let me know quickly.
Finally, we hope to be able to announce to members soon the appointment of a new executive director to replace Beverlee, who so unexpectedly died last month. This will ensure we are back to operating with 100% management efficiency.
Best wishes
Jason Roberts, PhD
President, ISMTE
Friday, 2 October 2009
Career Hunting, go on have a peek.
Morning all, or afternoon, evening (oh whatever).
In the times of recession and countries running out of money, and banks giving more out to the fat cats than they can afford. It is time to start keeping an eye on the job markets. Not that I am looking for a job, and not that I have the best job in the world. The best job in the world has got to be chief chocolate taster in a well know Swiss chocolate factory. Yummy. Or maybe a beer tasting brewery for the boys, grrrr.
Anyway, here at ISMTE we have a Career Centre, where you can do a number of things;
In the times of recession and countries running out of money, and banks giving more out to the fat cats than they can afford. It is time to start keeping an eye on the job markets. Not that I am looking for a job, and not that I have the best job in the world. The best job in the world has got to be chief chocolate taster in a well know Swiss chocolate factory. Yummy. Or maybe a beer tasting brewery for the boys, grrrr.
Anyway, here at ISMTE we have a Career Centre, where you can do a number of things;
- Post an anonymous resume (US) or CV (UK).
- View new jobs each day
- View the resumes
- Post a job
- Post a personal job alert
If you go to http://www.jobtarget.com/home/index.cfm?site_id=7287 have a little play around and see what is around.
For example the other day a job in Boston was posted for a technical editor for the American Meteorological Society. There are jobs for copy editors, editorial assistants, production assistants, editors, project managers.
Create yourself an account and keep an eye on things, if you are a publisher you can view peoples resumes/CVs. If you are a company you can advertise yourselves or find others. I find it very interesting to see how the industry is moving and believe it or not their are jobs out there.
So if anyone finds anything or finds it useful the please feedback on how we could improve it. let me know as I am interested to see how helpful it is.
And if anyone wants to find me a beer tasting job on a small sunny island surrounded by lovely ladies then please let me know. Until then I shall be at my desk wading through copy for our next issue or maybe I might push the boat out and edit something. (Damn it).
Toodle pip.
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