It's time for: EMAIL CHARETTE, PIN-UP, and CRIT!

Join us Tuesday evening, March 12 for a discussion regarding
successful email communication. email? How long have we all been
using this technology? Seems like forever, but it really hasn't been
all that long. Some of us date ourselves by remembering the old days
of MCI Mail, IBM Profs, CompuServe. Whether you've been emailing 20
years or 20 days, you'll find the review interesting and topical.
Although a broad subject, we hope to focus attention on best practices
for successful email communication. As a benefit to attending, there
will be a list of resources that can be used for reference and
troubleshooting. Please print and bring this email for the PIN-UP!

Although this seminar is geared for sole-practitioner and very small
firms without dedicated IT support staff, there will be enough of
interest to folks from large and mid-sized firms as well. I need those
of you who are email administrators to attend and participate in the
discussion, and help answer questions from your colleagues.

I've invited the NY Chapter's Director of Communication, Stephen A.
Kliment, FAIA to describe how our chapter is evaluating the change
from paper to email and web. Stephen was formerly Editor of
Architectural Record, was principal at Caudill Rowlett Scott, and is
now an architectural journalist, author, and educator.

Also invited is Kristen Richards, Editor-in-Chief ArchNewsNow, a fresh
start-up e'zine http://www.archnewsnow.com to discuss choices and
decisions about hybrid publishing via email+web. For two years,
Kristen was Editor-in-Chief at http://www.DesignArchitecture.com, and
10 years as news editor/feature writer for Interiors magazine.

Among topics discussed:
- How does your message look to your recipient? Same as sent?
- How do you REALLY know that your message is getting through?
- How do receipts and routing requests work (or not)?
- What are proper methods of addressing?
- What is HTML mail and what are the implications of its use?
- Style: reply methods, quoting
- Controlling line endings, using tabs
- What are the complete RFC-822 headers and what do they mean?
- Decoding errors, like "550 - relaying denied". Why?
- What are those strange attachments .att .vcf .dat
- Service types: Web-based, POP, IMAP, SMTP
- Push vs. Pull: Attachments vs. links
- Insourcing/Outsourcing of email services
- Bulk mailers & marketing tools: gauging response/readership
- Virus blocking and protection
- Professional vs. silly email names
- Privacy issues
- Encryption, security
- Acceptable use policies
- SPAM & Junkmail: ways to filter, redirect, stop it
- Disclaimers, Signatures, other things at the bottom of the message
- Email clients - alternatives to MS Outlook
- Email enabled devices - email on the go (via Palm, cellphone)
- Blackberry wireless communicators
- Who is the "Mailer-Daemon" and his brother "Mozilla"?
- Remember: Put knot yore trust inn spel chequers!

Topics NOT discussed:
- Legal issues (addressed at a 'legal issues' meeting later this year)
- Why do people write such l o n g email (like me!)

LOGISTICS
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TOPIC: EMAIL CHARETTE, PIN-UP, and CRIT
HOST: AIA NY CHAPTER
WHEN: Tuesday, March 12, 6:15pm - 8:15pm
WHERE: 200 Lexington Avenue (between E. 32nd & E. 33rd Sts.)
ROOM: First Floor Conference Center
VIA: NYC Transit #6 (33rd St.) convient Penn Station, Grand Central
CES/LU: 2.0 AIA Continuing Education Units (valid for NYS Arch.Reg.)
RSVP: by email mailto:jhowell@aiany.org or tel. 914-589-0278
COST: $ 3.00 - (yes, this is to defray the facility use charge)
BRING: Please print out this email and bring it for the pin-up!

HELP: I need to borrow a decent laptop projector. Contact me!

NEXT MONTH'S MEETING: WIRELESS
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TUESDAY APRIL 9: "Wireless Campuses/Wireless Cities": A focus on why
there is a growing trend for wireless college and business campuses;
risks vs. benefits; who's doing what and where. Did you know that
Bryant Park is about to provide free, public, wireless internet access
within its precincts? Yup - in 30 to 45 days. There has been quite a
bit in the news lately about wireless networks, secure and insecure.
Please see the NY Times links that follow, as well as the interesting
organization: NYC Wireless. Also, April 14 seminar below in calendar.

200 Lexington Avenue (the New York Design Center http://www.nydc.com)
is considering installing wireless internet throughout their building,
including the public areas including where we are meeting Tuesday.
This will be an interesting case study - architects and designers
could visit the showrooms, gather infomation, then use a wireless
laptop to place orders, check prices and status while in the café. I'm
looking forward to working with the building's management on this
interesting possibility. FYI, there is an insecure Wireless Access
Point on the 4th floor (ESSID=test; the strongest signal is near and
inside the fire stairs) as well as in front of 346 Lexington
(ESSID=NYCwireless).

"Good (or Unwitting) Neighbors Make for Good Internet Access"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/technology/04WIRE.html?todaysheadlines

"The Corner Internet Network vs. the Cellular Giants"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/technology/04MESH.html

Audio stream by Amy Harmon explaining this "Wi-Fi" technology
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/audio/technology/20020304harmon.html

The NYC Wireless group
http://www.NYCwireless.org

LAST MONTH'S MEETING
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Many thanks to our hosts Louis Chibbaro and Michael Walters at Perkins
& Will for hosting the interesting technology open house at their
firm. Approx 45 people attended the presentation and tour.

Meetings: We will continue to organize meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of
the month throughout the year, with occasional exceptions. Pre-mark
your calendar!

CALENDAR
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The AIA publishes a list of Greater NYC events of interest to the
Architectural community http://www.aiany.org/calendar

MARCH 13-15: SCUP (The Society of College and University Planners)
http://www.scup.org/ have put together a fantastic conference at
Columbia University entitled "Bricks and Clicks: Challenges in the
Digital Age". Registration is still open; please review the following
program which focuses on technology issues in higher education
http://www.ccsu.edu/planning/NASCUP/2002/SpringConf/conf1.htm. The
concurrent sessions are quite good, but look hard to find the links.
Even if you can't go, it's worthwhile to read the program and see what
is being discussed. I have been working with Columbia University's
Alan Crosswell, Director Network and Computing Systems, and ARUP's
Peter Berry to organize a compare & contrast video technology demo and
room design analysis. An Internet2 high-bandwidth connection will be
made between Columbia and the New World Symphony, where Michael Tilson
Thomas will conduct musicians over this broadcast quality medium. We
will compare this with more traditional ISDN 384kb Polycom-type
videoconferencing, noting quality variations and room effectiveness.
Learn more about Internet2 at http://www.internet2.org/

MARCH 14: IT Committee supporter DATAVOX has organized a free
educational event next week: "WIRELESS LAN SECURITY SUMMIT". Industry
experts from Intel, Gartner, & Bluesocket will discuss:
-- The new high-speed (802.11a) wireless technology (54 Mps!)
-- Best practices for deployment of WLANs
-- How to make sense of emerging standards and prepare for the future
-- How to address security and compatibility concerns
The morning session is full, but there is room in the afternoon. View
the program agenda at http://www.datavox.com/WLANSummit.htm

DIGITAL ARCHITECT: "Tech primer: printers and plotters"
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Excellent and helpful article by Jerry Laiserin, FAIA appears in the
March issue of Architectural Record. In print or online at
http://www.archrecord.com/DIGITAL/DA_ARTIC/DA03_02.ASP Also, an
introduction to Autodesk's new design tool, "Architectural Studio"
appears in the product review section.
http://www.archrecord.com/DIGITAL/Review0302.asp

If you haven't seen this product yet - do so, it is really quite
remarkable. I received information that Consulting for Architects is
having a product demonstration Thursday March 28, 2002, 3:30 - 5:00pm.
Contact them directly: Leah Strothman, 800-599-8882 or online at
http://www.cadstoreonline.com/DisplayPage.php3?HPEvent=nyarchstudio

ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NY LECTURE:
James Glymph, Gehry Partners: Computing and the Craft of Architecture
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A principal of Gehry Partners, James Glymph's primary interest is in
building technology and how the technology influences design. Mr.
Glymph develops and encourages a special relationship among
architects, engineers, craftsmen and fabricators, that is
characterized by a close design collaboration at the technical level
and facilitated by the unique application of computer technologies.
The rapid feedback that these collaborations allow creates better
understanding of the building process and better control of
construction costs, while, at the same time, permitting new design
possibilities to be explored.

Thursday, April 4, 2002, 6:30 p.m.
Caspary Hall, Rockefeller University
66th Street and York Avenue, NYC
Reservations for League members only
(no guest reservations) begin March 22.
http://www.archleague.org/ (click image for calendar)

For member reservations, call 212-980-3767 or (info@archleague.org)
League members free, non-members $10.

Jordan Parnass - Building Virtual and Actual Spaces
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Committee participant Deborah Snoonian PE has published the following
profile & interview of this talented young information and
archtectural designer, whose design of Remote Lounge has recently been
published. http://archrecord.com/archrecord2/design/march02/JPDA.asp
Deborah is also seeking assistance with a future article concerning
GIS applications. Anyone with case study experience using GIS systems
within their practice, please contact Deborah at 212.904.3989 or
mailto:deborah_snoonian@mcgraw-hill.com

BLUESPACE
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A Vision of the Office of the Future: BlueSpace, the model "smart
office"...which I.B.M. designed with the furniture company Steelcase -
(New York Times article in link). Anybody on this list piloting
BlueSpace or have clients that are?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/14/technology/14NECO.html

A GOOD REASON TO SYNC YOUR PALM - NO LONGER FREE
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Anybody else here use Vindigo in their Palm device? I find it a handy
way to carry around movie and restaurant listings for NYC and other
cities that I visit. It is now changing from a FREE to a FEE service,
but have added (thank you for listening) museum listings, ATM
locations, and Brooklyn. It's bigger and clunkier, and now a $20/$25
annual subscription. I think in my case it will still be worthwhile
with the added features. It is an incentive for those that don't sync
as regularly as they should. Base app takes about 300k, and each NYC
(example) category varies in size - my selections take up 744kb for
movies times and TimeOutNY reviews, restaurants (Gayot guide), museum
and music listings, and "services". Interesting to check out, and free
for 30 days. http://www.vindigo.com

WTC FORUMS - STREAMING VIDEO
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Both the School of Engineering & Applied Science and the Graduate
School of Architecture of Columbia Univeristy have had excellent
programs on the WTC aftermath. For those that couldn't attend, they
were recorded and are available using two differing streaming media
formats - RealNetworks and Quicktime. In addition to the content, you
may wish to compare and contrast the effectiveness of the two formats.

"Forum on the Technical Implications of the World Trade Center
Collapses" (November 12, 2001) [ENG]
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/networks/advanced/wtc/wtc.html

"World Trade Center Forum" (February 1 & 2, 2002) [ARCH]
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/gsap/3798

EVENTS OF NOTE:
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Committee participant Tom Doremus has sent in this extensive list of
technology shows of interest. "Here is a list of some upcoming shows.
All offer free access to the exhibits if you register a few weeks
early, except PCExpo which says it wants $60. But usually you can
register at no cost as the date for the show approaches, so it's worth
checking on."

OnDemand Expo, Javits Center, April 23-25
Demonstrations of publishing, printing and paper, including large format
www.ondemandexpo.com

Info Today, Hilton, May 14-16
Business information technology
www.infotoday.com

Atlantic Design and Manufacturing, Javits Center, June 4 - 6
CAD technologies in manufacturing, particularly medical
www.atldesignshow.com

The Electric Show, Javits Center, June 18-19
Electrical technologies and supplies
www.electricshow.com

Buildings New York, Javits Center, June 18-19
Building and construction suppliers
www.buildingsny.com

TechXNY, Javits Center, June 25-27
Formerly PC Expo, computer technologies
www.techxny.com

"I hope the membership finds these interesting. You can always get
evaluations of pertinent software from vendors at these exhibits, and
it's the best way to compare things such as color printers and
monitors side-by-side. " -- Tom

NEW YORK NEW VISIONS
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"Principles for the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan" has been recently
published. Download a copy of this thoughtful and important document
via PDF at http://www.newyorknewvisions.org

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