IPEd Notes - September 2008
IPEd Notes
News from the Institute of Professional Editors Limited
September 2008
IPEd held its AGM on 24 August. It was followed by a meeting of the Council.
At the AGM, Members received reports from the Chair and Honorary Treasurer, and approved the audited financial statements for 2007-08 and the budget for 2008-09. The Chair's report and the financial statements have been placed on the IPEd website. Members confirmed the nominations of existing councillors, most of them until the 2009 AGM, at which time, under the terms of the constitution, half the members of the Council must retire.
At the Council meeting, the forthcoming accreditation examination was a major agenda item, as was the proposed budget for the year. Statistics on website visitation were a highlight of the report on communication activities: there are now over 1300 visitors per month to <www.iped-editors.org>, and they stay, on average, for six minutes. A significant proportion of recent visits was to the sample accreditation exam by editors with their eyes, no doubt, on the ‘AE' postnominal. The real exam will be on Saturday 18 October at venues in every state and Canberra.
The IPEd website is a mine of information on Institute activities. Recent additions include the minutes of the two-day Council meeting and planning session held in Adelaide at the end of May, and a link to <www.comjobs.com.au>, a website listing ‘Opportunities and information for professional communicators' that is well worth a visit, particularly if you are in an upwardly mobile mood.
Another recent addition to the website is information on the Barbara Ramsden Award, a national award for excellence in editing created in 1971 by the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW). IPEd and the Society of Editors (Vic.) Inc. are now joint sponsors of the award with FAW.
Ed Highley
Secretary
