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alive, accurate, attractive
Making the world more readable -
one comma at a
time.
I am a member of and former membership co-chair of the
Bay
Area Editors' Forum. In 2001 I took a 6-month course,
"The Versatile
Copyeditor." I use the Chicago University Press Manual of Style. Because I don't
get to do this regularly,
I don't try to remember all the rules for my customers. I
focus on consistency and clarity - which is what they need from me.
I have copyedited Word documents that originated in Europe and have German and Italian styles, and a report for a project for the European Commission that had had at least a dozen different Europeans working on it. Fun.
In 2003, Verna and a colleague, Dinesh Chandra, co-edited a book, True Wealth
and How Do
We Create It, published by Indigo
Press in India. I was honored to copyedit and select art for
this unique
collection of essays, quotations, and poetry, including
an interview with His Holiness
the Dalai Lama.
You can view the Table of Contents and excerpts from this beautiful hard-cover book here.
Verna's book, The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational
Intelligence, was published in 1997,
before I was working with her.
In 2005, she helped Dr. Yong-Koo Kim of the Mirae Management Institute in Seoul to translate it into Korean.
I re-drew some of the diagrams - with labels in Korean.
I edited
Verna's
last book, The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through
Value Networks, published in 2002 by Butterworth-Heinemann. We
sat side-by-side
at her dining room table. She re-wrote and re-arranged as I read.
Steve has an annual
conference,
attended by representatives of global action networks from all over the world.
One year I
got to attend, in Boston. I helped him with the participant binders -
formatting, and such.
One of the most challenging projects I have
ever done was to edit
long
bios of each of 20 of these important people -
down
to around 250 words each. I didn't want to take away any of their words!
