November 2006

Advocating Plain Language

Research, Evidence, and Tools for Action (November 15, 2006: Washington DC, USA)
The Center for Plain Language is a 501(c)(3) corporation established to propel the belief that government and business communication can be clear and understandable. This unique collaboration of academic, government, and private sectors promotes research, education, and use of plain language. The Center will transform how people think about communication. We will educate people to demand plain language in public communications and will help businesses and government to meet that demand.

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World Usability Day 2006

November 14, 2006
World Usability Day promotes the values and benefits of usability engineering and user centered design, because everyone has the right to have things that work better. The world is a better place when they do.

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tcworld Conference

The largest event in the field of Technical Communication in Europe (November 8-9, 2006 - Wiesbaden, Germany EU)
tcworld is a high quality event for professionals dealing with multilingual product information such as technical writers, web designers, documentation and information managers, translators, vendors etc. It provides an excellent platform for information and knowledge exchange between experts from the industry, researchers, education experts, service providers and freelancers.

Start date: November 08, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Web2.0 Conference

Disruption & Opportunity (November 7-9, 2006 - San Francisco CA, USA)
The Web 2.0 Conference focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the Web as a platform and defines how the Web will drive business in the future. Now that the Web has become a robust platform with countless innovations driving its ongoing development, widespread disruptions in traditional business models are well underway. But within the chaos of disruption lies the seeds of opportunity.

Start date: November 07, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

ASIS&T 2006

Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All (November 3-9, 2006: Austin, Texas US)
Information technology has enabled an expanding digital world, inextricably linked to our physical existence but revolutionary in terms of human creativity and thought. New technologies for mobile communication, massively distributed collaboration, and real-time information sharing are radically impacting human expressions, interactions and records. There is likely to be a continuing demand for powerful information organization, aggregation, and dissemination tools to harness these new information realities.

Start date: November 03, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

UPA User Friendly 2006

The unique and the largest user experience annual conference in the Great China area (November 3-5, 2006: Dragon Hotel, Hangzhou China)
UPA China warmly invites you to User Friendly 2006 for 3 days, bringing together usability practitioners, designers and technologists from across China and internationally. Come to Hangzhou to continue the tradition of sharing, friendship and learning as experienced in Beijing (2004) and Shanghai (2005).

Start date: November 03, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

WonderGround

Design Research Society - Designing interdisciplinary discourse, conspiring for Design Leadership (November 1-5, 2006: Lisbon, Portugal)
Wonderground is a comprehensive international conference covering all fields of design research. Wonderground invites papers and projects in all areas of design research.

Start date: November 01, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink