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AMP Web
Editorial Board
This month’s Newsletter shares with you more of the
“behind the scenes” efforts we are making to enhance our web
presence. We are working rapidly to have a functional
website to preview at the AMP Annual Meeting. The new
website has been established in a cyber work zone. While we
have not officially transitioned to the site, with the help
of team members Alta and Chris Wallington at the
AMP/ASIP
office, we are in the mode of optimizing the redesign,
reorganization, and “tweaking” other aspects such as the
architecture of each page, editable regions and more. This
new site will be become the “go to” place for molecular
pathology. We have multiple members, working under a
specific hierarchy, in order to potentially allow each
Content Editor to implement their own updates with greater
speed and efficiency. Committee and Subdivision
pages are in progress and we are planning to provide
designated members of the team with aspects of their
contribute keys for authoring/publishing updates. ColdFusion
(a commercial, rapid web application development platform)
has been installed on the server, so all associated files
now work properly, which will allow accurate visual and
print capabilities. In order to achieve rapid input
and updating, we have elected to use Adobe Contribute.
There will be many writers, who will submit their content
for review, who in turn submit finalized content to
publishers. We are still working on establishing
Contribution privileges to members of the Web Editorial
Board. It is my vision that each of the content editors will
oversee members within their respective committee
assignments and sections to provide timely content for these
areas. It has been proposed that ad hoc members of
the Editorial Board will be assigned to each of the various
committees. These ad hoc members will provide a
dynamic portal for sharing of committee information to be
directly translated to the website. This will allow users
of the website to be appraised of current happenings within
AMP. Introduced to you in the previous Newsletters,
the “Content” team is comprised of representatives from each
of the AMP Subdivisions: Genetics (Ron Przygodzki -
Ronald.Przygodzki@va.gov), Hematopathology (David
Bosler -
boslerd@ccf.org),
Infectious Diseases (Wayne Wang -
yfwang@emory.edu), and Solid Tumors (George
Netto -
gnetto1@jhmi.edu and Katherine Geiersbach
-
katherine.geiersbach@aruplab.com). Other
liaisons on the Board, Ted Schutzbank (ted.schutzbank@covance.com),
Kathleen Murphy
(AMP Web Library Editor -
kmurphy4@jhmi.edu) and Alexis Carter (AMP
Test Directory Editor -
abcart2@emory.edu) will continue to work with
us to accelerate this endeavor. You will hear more from us
as we increase our operational capacities. We will preview
the site at the Annual Meeting for all of the membership.
If you have suggestions, questions, or want to be more
involved, please do not hesitate to contact me or the other
members of the Web Editorial Board! Stay tuned for our
exciting new venture! |
