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IDCC 380 Instructor: Buchholz Biography

William Buchholz, Professor and Chairman (since 2001) of the Department of Information Design and Corporate Communication (IDCC) at Bentley University , received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois , Urbana. In over 30 years at Bentley, Dr. Buchholz has taught expository writing, effective speaking (undergraduate and graduate), managerial communication (undergraduate and graduate), business communication research, World Wide Web communication, administrative report writing, introduction to business communication, public relations theory, public relations writing, technical writing and editing, content development, and information architecture (undergraduate and graduate). In addition, he served as the Business Communication Internship Coordinator from 1979-1987, and as Director of the Undergraduate and Graduate Business Communication Programs, 1988-1995. In 1993, he co-chaired the Department of English ; and from 1995-2000, he served as chairman of the Department of English

Dr. Buchholz's major teaching and research interests include the World Wide Web, information design, information architecture, interface design,knowledge management, ontologies, and content management. He is currently researching the various applications of ontologies (especially the Web Ontology Language (OWL), XML (DTDs , Schema , XSLT ), XHTML , CSS , DHTML , and metadata schemas such as RDF (Semantic Web ) and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative ).

Active in communication training and consulting for business and industryboth nationally and in the greater Boston area since 1977,Dr. Buchholz is a speech writer, editor, seminar leader, writer, manuscript reviewer, computer software/manual evaluator, Internet/intranet consultant, textbook reviewer, and managerial communication consultant. He has published business communication cases, reviews, and articles on consulting, composition, business communication, and ontology in The Journal of Business Communication , College Composition and Communication , The Phi Delta Kappan , The Bulletin of theAmerican Business Communication Association(now The Business Communication Quarterly ),The Journal of Business and Technical Communication , The IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication , and the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management .

Dr. Buchholz is editor of and contributor to Communication Training and Consulting in Business, Industry, and Government (Urbana, IL: the Association for Business Communication , University of Illinois, 1983); The Challenge of Change: Managing Communications and Building Corporate Image in the 1990s (Florham-Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University , 1989); Global Communications: Applying Resources Strategically (Florham-Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1990); New Corporate Relationships (Florham-Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1991); Communication in Uncertain Times (Florham-Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1992); The Profession of Technical and Scientific Communication (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1998), the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management (2006), and Knowledge Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (2007).

• Buchholz Teaching & Research Profile (Bentley Web site)
• Curriculum Vitae (pdf file)

Contact Dr. Buchholz by e-mail at wbuchholz.bentley.edu or at any of these Web sites:

• http://www.wbuchholz.com
• http://twitter.com/wbuchholz/
• http://www.facebook.com/wbuchholz
• http://picasaweb.google.com/wbuchholz
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/wbuchholz/sets/
• http://www.linkedin.com/pub/william-buchholz/0/730/383

Note: You may want to check out the Business Communication section on BusinessWeek’s new topic-based site, Business Exchange, in particular, these three sites:

1. Business Communication by BusinessWeek,
2. Business Intelligence by BusinessWeek, and
3. Data Storage by BusinessWeek.

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