Bruce Miller is a former ASJA Board Member, former ASJA Webmaster, former ASJA IT Manager, and current ASJA volunteer. His writing career has included travel articles, personality profiles, entrepreneurial articles, naturopathic articles, and technology articles. He has been a member of ASJA since 1986. During the emergence of personal computers he was a 12-year contributing editor to “Puget Sound Computer User” magazine based in Seattle, across the lake from Redmond, WA, home of Microsoft.
He has received writing awards and an award for radio production.
He was the developmental editor and primary co-author of The Smoke-Free Workplace, contributing to the massive cultural shift that eliminated smoking in the workplace.
Between writing assignments, he was also an efficiency programmer creating document assembly programs, primarily for law firms. One such application was cutting the draft-time of a will from 120 minutes to 15 minutes. Based on his consulting experience he wrote for the American Management Association as well as publications aimed at lawyers. Some of his programming code for efficiency appeared in several publications.
As ASJA’s first webmaster he purchased the asja.org domain for the organization when it could not be purchased online. With $35 cash in-hand he took a trip to a local Internet Service Provider and secured the domain asja.org for ASJA.
During his time as ASJA’s webmaster and IT manager he programmed various systems to increase efficiency, including:
- Database conference management system, with accompanying web-page interfaces, that eliminated information dropouts, that easily handled 110 sessions over a three-day conference with hundreds of speakers and moderators
- VoIP phone service that cut the organization’s phone bill from $300 per month to $30 per month
- Database membership management system, which was also the basis for an electronically generated printed Membership Directory
- Various additional time-saving database systems customized for the organization
Additionally, he:
- Designed and guided the development of a program for ASJA to randomly assign writers with editors for a speed-dating type event now known as Client Connections
- Initiated and managed the multi-person, multi-month project to scan several decades of ASJA’s printed newsletters that began in December 1951 (then known as the Society of Magazine Writers)
Currently he is the architect and administrator of a database of 10,000+ writers and associated copyright payments and is also a Seattle-based network consultant to firms and individuals.
He still writes about technology, including:
ASJA PNW Newsletter
SlashYourPhoneBill.com
NoMoreSalesTax.com
VPNhomeserver.com
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