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Subject: Special Interest Groups: Now accepting registrations, proposals Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:47:37 -0500 From: "Dennis F. Galletta" galletta@katz.pitt.edu To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Special interest groups (SIGs) provide substantial benefits to academic and professional organizations, helping their members exchange ideas and keep up to date. To foster the development of SIGs with the unique perspective only available from our discipline, AIS funded its first year's worth of SIG proposals. The funding is designed to provide seed money for the development of electronic resources such as web sites, listserves, and on-line discussion groups.

In the long run, SIGs are expected to enhance their offerings with conference mini-tracks, newsletters, and directories. Some SIGs will offer workshops, calls for papers in special issues of journals, working papers, electronic bibliographies, tutorials, conferences, refereed journals, and pointers to research tools and industry contacts.

Because the bulk of us already renewed our AIS memberships last summer or fall, this first year will be a partial one. Therefore, in this start-up partial year, we are offering, for the next six months only, a charter membership fee of $10 for each SIG. For very short periods, the fee might even be a little lower. Next year, SIGs will set their own fees, so this is an opportunity to join several and experiment a little.

Please support your volunteer colleagues who have stepped forward, and join as many SIGs as your interests allow! They will need not only financial support through dues, but help in gathering resources or helping in areas such as links to working papers, industry contacts, discussions, conferences, journal special issues, etc. SIG chairs will undoubtedly appreciate any leadership and other resources that you might be able to muster for your content area.

And as always, we will need volunteers to propose and manage other new SIGs related to widely-adopted areas of research. Feel free to toss your hat in the ring. Council will make decisions on SIG funding at each April meeting for the foreseeable future.

The following SIGs have been approved and funded by AIS

SIGABIS (Agent-Based Information Systems) SIGDSS (Decision Support and Analytical Information Systems) SIGEBIZ (E-Business) SIGHCI (Human-Computer Interaction) SIG IS-CORE (Information Systems - Cognitive Research Exchange) SIG ISO (IS Outsourcing) SIGITPM (IT Professional Management) SIGPAM (Process Automation and Management) SIGSEC (Security)

Please visit the AIS web site http://www.aisnet.org and find the links in the right margin after the word SIGS. You can choose "groups" to see a page with a link to each of the fledgling sites, "registration" to register (you'll need your AIS member number), or "call for" to read about how to propose your own SIG.

DG

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dennis F. Galletta Associate Prof. of Business Admin. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 phone: 412-648-1699 fax: 412-648-1693 Internet: galletta@katz.pitt.edu http://www.pitt.edu/~galletta ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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