The CDI mission
Colleen Dunham Indexing (CDI) facilitates information access by creating simple
information maps for both traditional publishers and Internet content providers.
By focusing on the reader/user/audience, CDI recasts old index and catalog
models to solve today’s information overload nightmare. CDI is
the direction-finder for readers who are lost at sea, adrift in information,
dazed, confused, and frustrated.
CDI services
Colleen Dunham Indexing offers full-service information mapping to both
print and online publishers. CDI provides better access to your information
to improve your products’ effectiveness and enrich your readers’ satisfaction.
Back of the book indexes
“Every serious book of nonfiction should have an index if it is to
achieve its maximum usefulness,” states the Chicago Manual of Style. CDI
provides the expertise you need to bring that maximum usefulness to your nonfiction
titles. CDI has specialists in a wide range of fields who will deliver both breadth
and depth to your projects. With more than 30 years of collective experience,
CDI works faster and smarter to bring indexes in on time and within budget.
Consulting services
Not sure what kind of map your book or Web site requires? Not sure
how to schedule it or budget it? Take advantage of CDI’s many years
of user research and project management expertise. CDI can help you plot it all
out.
Software feature mapping
As software becomes more complex, exciting key features can become buried
under layers of menus. And when users can’t find features, they often assume
they don’t exist, leaving some of the best parts of your software unused.
CDI can map features to actual user queries within your software,
enabling people to enjoy your product more and resulting in higher customer
satisfaction and fewer customer support calls.
E-commerce information mapping
Web sites provide product information and tools to online readers and buyers.
But when people get to your site, do they know how much content there is? CDI can
create the tools to help your customers understand everything your site has to
offer and keep them coming back again and again. More activity on
your site can translate into more prestige, more advertising, and more revenue.
Collection indexes
What common thread runs through your titles? Time? Place? Passion? For publishers
of both fiction and nonfiction who are looking for new, intriguing ways to market
your publications, CDI offers collection indexing to help readers see the common
themes, characters, and places that traverse a body of work. Helping readers
understand those threads provides a refreshing perspective on your existing collections.
Consider how an index to an author’s full collection can breathe fresh
life into that work and provide a new means for readers to access themes and
characters that are intriguing to track. New and exciting patterns emerge from
this innovative mapping concept.
Nonprofit information collections
CDI helps your organization provide broad access to a variety of archived
information. The records of your school bulletins, church weeklies, community
newspapers, etc., never fail to tell a much bigger story of community and participation. CDI’s
expert team can memorialize that participation for your community.
Scholarly research
CDI offers indexing services to Ph.D. candidates, law school students, and
other scholarly writers who need to provide in-depth access to their research.
A CDI index is a vital way for your audience to appreciate your research and
gain access to your ideas. CDI offers affordable student rates to qualified candidates.
Quick indexes
Little book? Little budget? Tight deadline? CDI can create
quick indexes—mini-maps—that contain the five essentials you must
have to point your readers to your writing.
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