<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The SIGDOC 2020 conference committee is making final preparations for our virtual event, which will take place next week from October 5-9. We write to share more information about the online conference and invite you to register. Registration is free for SIGDOC members, and membership costs only $35 USD (or $25 for students).</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Beginning Monday, registrants will have access to over 60 presentations in video and poster form that can be viewed at your convenience. In addition, our live events <a href="http://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2020/program/#page-content">program</a> includes a keynote, interactive panels on pandemic communication and antiracist research, an editor's roundtable, our student research competition, and an academia-industry meetup and networking event to close the conference. A table listing our live events is below.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2020/program/#page-content"></a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We are excited to announce that our <a href="http://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2020/keynote-wccc/#page-content">opening keynote</a>, “Building Collaborative Networks to Support Women of Color in User-Experience and Technology Design" will be delivered via Zoom on Wednesday, October 7 by Estefania Castillo, Laura Gonzales, Bibhushana Poudyal, Nora Rivera, Joy Robinson, Ann Shivers-McNair, and Tetyana Zhyvotovska. </font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">To update your membership or join SIGDOC, please see more information at <a href="http://sigdoc.acm.org/join/">http://sigdoc.acm.org/join/</a><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">To register for the conference, please see <a href="https://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2020/register/#page-content">https://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2020/register/#page-content</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Although we'd looked forward to a joint event in Denton, TX with CPTSC, we hope that you'll attend CPTSC's events online this week and then join ours next week. If you have any questions, please contact me.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Stacey, on behalf of the conference committee</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Stacey Pigg, PhD</div><div>Associate Professor, Department of English</div><div>Director of Professional Writing Program</div><div>North Carolina State University </div><div><br></div><div>Cell: (517) 282-1889</div><div>Office: (919) 515-4117</div><div><a href="mailto:slpigg@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">slpigg@ncsu.edu</a></div><div>***************************</div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap">Tuesday, Oct 6</span><br></div></div><div><table style="width:446px"><colgroup><col style="width:110px"><col style="width:336px"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:bold">Time</span></div></td><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:bold">Session</span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap">10:30 AM - noon CST</span><br></div></td><td class="gmail-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span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">11:30 - 12:45 PM CST</span></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">SRC Synchronous Event, Part 2</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">1PM - 2:30 CST</span></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Topical Session B: Antiracism and research</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">2:30 - 5 PM CST</span></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Workshop B: Structure your Site for Your Users: The Card Sorting Method</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:bold">Friday, Oct 9</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><table style="width:441px"><colgroup><col style="width:110px"><col style="width:331px"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:bold">Time</span></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:bold">Session</span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">10 AM- 12:00 CST</span></div></td><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Workshop C: YAML as an Information Design Tool in the Classroom and the Workplace</span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">12PM - 1:30PM CST</span></div></td><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Topical Session C: Editor's Roundtable</span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">2PM - 3PM CST</span></div></td><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Conference Wrap-up, Closing Remarks & Awards</span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">3PM - 5PM CST</span></div></td><td class="gmail-" style="vertical-align:top;overflow:hidden;border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="font-size:8pt;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Super Meetup: Ignite Talks</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>