[KB] Notes from NCA

[David Blakesley]

Thanks for your report from NCA, Jon. And thanks for your work on behalf of
the NCA KBS group!

I can fill in a few pieces of information.

2. Planning for the 2024 triennial will be ratcheting up soon, with more
details to follow in early 2023.

2A and 4. KB Journal's next issue is in the last stages of production and
should be released in December. The strange phenomenon of redirects from
(some) Google searches is hard to replicate, and the cause is complicated.
I've spoken with KB Journal's server engineers about it, and we're working
on a long-term solution. Malware attacks on the server are so frequent and
voluminous that countermeasures cost so much time it's ridiculous. At the
moment, Google hits on KB Journal pages aren't leading to any false
redirects for me at the moment. If anyone does encounter such an error,
please email me with the info about the page you tried to access and the
URL where you ended up.

The best way to access the journal is directly: https://kbjournal.org. The
search bar on the upper right works well for finding content.

Cheers,
Dave
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On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 1:50 PM Jon Carter <jonathan.s.carter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Howdy all,
>
> Here is some news from NCA. The meeting was sparsely attended, so we
> figured it would be better to do business here.
>
> 1) We need a new secretary and a new program planner/vice chair. If you
> are interested, let me know by this Wednesday if possible. If we have more
> than one person interested in a position, I will send a poll out to the
> membership for a vote. I want to move on this quickly so we can get that
> person to the planning trainings NCA offers.
>
> 2) We were unsure of the status of the next triennial. So we wanted to
> poke the listserve for more conversation.
>
> 2a) There was also a conversation asking about the status of the journal,
> but we could not give updates.
>
> 3) Slots are down for everyone at NCA next year (we are down to 2 slots),
> and the 7 am business meetings have not drawn people, so we figured it
> would be better to do our business digitally (since we are an affiliate not
> a division, we have more flexibility about how we would do this).
>
> 4) When you search the journal in google, you get redirected to a spam
> page (it works on other search engines). We need to work with Google to fix
> this. Going to the URL directly (kbjournal.org) works, so we should do
> that (or use bing) for now.
>
> Jon Carter
> Assistant Professor - Department of Music, Communication, and Emerging
> Media
> Georgia Southwestern State University
>
> I recognize that each of us works in different ways. I want to respect
> your time. While I have sent this email at a time that works for me, I do
> not expect that you will read, respond, or take action on this outside your
> normal work hours
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