JoAnn Hackos explained

JoAnn T. Hackos is a lecturer, consultant, and author of a number of books about technical communication.^[1] Now retired, Hackos is the founder of the Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) and the president emeritus of Comtech Services in Denver, Colorado.^{[2] [3]} She is also a fellow and past president of the Society for Technical Communication. She is a member of the IEEE Standards Association and active in the ISO SC7 Working Groups that is developing standards for information developers. She is the co-author of the standards on content management and information-development management.

Hackos is considered an expert in the fields of content management and information design,^[4] with some of her work in the fields being described as "groundbreaking."^[5]

Hackos was also an early and vocal advocate of the single source publishing idea.^[6] She was instrumental in founding the OASIS DITA Standards Committee.

Works

• A Practical Guide to XLIFF with Bryan Schnabel and Rodolfo Raya (XML Press, 2015)
• Information Development, Managing your Documentation Projects, Portfolio, and People (Wiley 2006)
• Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery (Wiley 2002)
• Managing Your Documentation Projects (Wiley 1994)
• Standards for Online Communication (Wiley 1997)
• User and Task Analysis for Interface Design (Wiley 1998)
• Introduction to DITA: Second Edition' (Comtech Services 2011)

Honors and awards

• 2013 - Horace Hockley Award, Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (United Kingdom)^[7]
• 2003 - Rigo Award, Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication^[8]
• 2000 - Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Communication Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Professional Communication Society^[9]

External links

• An Interview with JoAnn Hackos by Scott Abel, Wednesday, August 30, 2006
• Bibliography at Alibris
  • Professional profile at the Center for Information-Development Management's official website
• Quotations from JoAnn Hackos at Dey Alexander Consulting, February 17, 2006

Notes and References

1. http://www.stc-orlando.org/prodev/48notes/singlesourceauth.asp Notes from 48th International STC Conference
2. http://www.thedynamicpublisher.com/author/joann-hackos/ JoAnn Hackos
3. http://www.graphic-design.com/Web/feature/management/ Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery
4. http://www.dclab.com/legacy_to_dita_interview.asp JoAnn Hackos on Moving Legacy Documentation into DITA: An Interview
5. http://www.ditausers.org/about_us/history_of_dita/ History
6. http://dita.xml.org/meeting-joann-hackos Meeting JoAnn Hackos
7. Web site: Horace Hockley Award 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20160422192006/http://www.istc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Communicator-2013-Winter-JoAnnHackos.pdf. 2016-04-22. dead.
8. Web site: Rigo Award . . 11 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120614135502/http://www.sigdoc.org/awards/rigo.html . 14 June 2012 .
9. https://pcs.ieee.org/awards/#goldsmith PCS Awards