March 2007

Information Design Conference 2007

(March 29-30, 2007 - Greenwich London, UK EU)
The idea of setting up the IDA came out of the original Information Design Conference series, organized by the Information Design Journal during the 1980s. In 1990, a group of design practitioners, teachers and researchers thought it would be good to form an Association, both as a talking-shop and to promote the benefits of Information Design to a wider audience. For some years the IDA held well-attended meetings in London, and also got involved in running the Information Design Conferences; then, energies waned, and the IDA became dormant in the UK. Until a year ago! A group of us have come together, using the IDA as our organisational framework, to run this conference. We are already delighted with the international interest that has been shown in this event, and following the conference the IDA will continue with regular meetings.

Start date: March 29, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

ICWSM-2007

International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (March 26-28, 2007 - Boulder, Colorado USA)
Recent years have seen a flourishing of social media, the promise of the WWW as envisioned by its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, coming to fruition. Across the world, individuals can share opinions, expertise, snapshots in time and space with little technological barrier. This is the fundamental shift: significant advances in the ease of publishing content. Creating web content was for years the domain of tech-savvy people; now the barrier has been torn down. Perhaps the most visible among the successes of social media in recent years is the blogosphere. Tens of thousands of new blogs are created every day; content from blogs appears all over: news portals, search results, corporate public relations. Even those who are unaware of the blogosphere are still influenced by its content. Blogs are highly visible today, but other forms of conversational spaces continue to flourish, especially message boards, mailing lists, review sites and Usenet. Social media covers all forms of sharing: from photos, to videos, to recommendations. In the past few years, many examples of social media have become hugely successful. Flickr is a premier photo sharing site; del.icio.us has become a touchstone for sharing recommendations of websites; Web 2.0 applications in general abound with newcomers in the social media space. One of the fascinating aspects of social media has been the drive from within to study the ecology as it evolves. People act at once as creators, observers and influencers of the space in which they participate. At the same time, businesses are quickly grasping the potential benefit to attending to the new space of social media. Monitoring the aggregate trends and opinions revealed by social media provides valuable insight to a number of business applications: marketing intelligence, competitive intelligence.

Start date: March 26, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

WritersUA Conference

Annual WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance (March 25-28, 2007: Long Beach, CA USA)
The Conference is all about cutting-edge education from the top people in our field. Session content includes tips and techniques, design and construction tricks, case studies, roundtable discussions, and more. Practical, hands-on information on everything related to user assistance.

Start date: March 25, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

IA Summit 2007

(March 24-26, 2007 - Las Vegas, Nevada USA)
The Information Architecture Summit is a premier gathering place for information architects and for discussion about information architecture. Everyone who touches on IA is welcome to share and learn. Last year's IA Summit attracted over 500 attendees, including beginners, experienced IAs, and people in a range of related fields.

Start date: March 24, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Topic Maps 2007

The First Int'l Topic Maps User Conference (March 20-21, 2007 - Oslo, Norway EU)
Building on four years of successful Topic Maps conferences in Oslo, the Norwegian Computer Society, in conjunction with OASIS, is proud to announce Topic Maps 2007, the First International Topic Maps User Conference. Join us for two days of tutorials, case studies, and technical discussions. Learn about how the ISO Topic Maps standard is being applied around the world to solve problems of information management, knowledge management and systems integration. Meet fellow users and talk to some of the world's leading experts. Topic Maps 2007 will consist of three tracks, and presentations will be in English.

Start date: March 20, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Doors of Perception 9

JUICE: Food, Energy, Design (March 3, 2007 - India Habitat Centre, New Delhi India)
Global food systems are not sustainable. Industrialised food consumes ten times more energy in production and distribution than enters our bodies as nutrition. In 'developed' countries, the food consumption of a single family generates eight tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. This madness is enabled by non renewable fossil fuel. But what to do? Doors 9 breaks the food systems issue into bite-sized design chunks.

Start date: March 03, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink