Seth Maislin is an information architecture and indexing consultant, specializing in the construction of usable web-based hierarchies, knowledge retrieval systems, and indexes.

He provides information architecture, navigation, usability, indexing, content analysis, and related consulting services; presents regularly at conferences; and indexes books and web documents. Seth has written several articles for professional print and online periodicals.

Seth is an independent information architecture and indexing consultant; adjunct instructor at Middlesex Community College, Simmons College, and Bentley College; and trainer at nSight, Inc. He has developed an interactive online-learning indexing course, which is one of two in the global industry.

Former in-house positions notably include senior integration manager at Terra Lycos, Inc. and senior indexer at O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Focus Information Services is a sole proprietorship.

His book indexing projects are too numerous to list here. Past non-indexing consulting projects include taxonomy construction for Microsoft and Elsevier, search improvement for America Online, content directory development for Lycos.com and partners, clip art storage and keywording for Mattel, and website and help indexing for Microsoft and PeopleSoft.

Professional Associations
Seth is past president (2006-2007) of the American Society of Indexers (ASI). He remains involved in several projects, including ASI's educational initiatives, the society website rearchitecture and redesign project, research on intellectual property issues related to indexing, strategic planning, and many other issues. He is ASI's current international representative and the founding administrator of several of ASI's electronic mailing lists. As president-elect, he planned the 2006 joint international indexing conference in Toronto.

When the Indexing Special Interest Group of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) closed down in late 2005, Seth created the techindexing mailing list. This forum is dedicated to index issues in technical communication, and serves as the public archive of content from the defunct Indexing SIG.

Non-Business Affiliations and Activities
Seth is a fiction writer, plays piano, occasionally performs as an improvizational actor and singer, and isn't afraid to stand in front of a bunch of people and tell them what he thinks. For exercise he carries around his ever-growing kids (born January 2005 and April 2006) or rides on his inline skates, but never both at once. Other interests include cooking, reading, environmental responsibility, and bowling. (Did you know there are six kinds of bowling in the world?)

Seth is volunteer webmaster for the Arlington Family Connection.

His blog is available at http://maislin.blogspot.com.