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Topics at InfoCamp Seattle 2008:
What do YOU want to talk about?
List what you are thinking about presenting!
- User Generated Content and Fair Use (Panel with Q&A)
- 1 or 2 legal professionals or academics
- 1 Communications academic
- 1 UGC professional
- Emergency Librarians: Librarians as Heroic Action Figure
- Semantic Technology & IA
- The role of public libraries in knowledge cities
- Knowledge Cities: the city as a KM system
- Social Media - uses in and for organizations
- User Generated Content - Shaping Real Life Interactions
- Computer and Information Literacy - teaching techniques for formal and informal settings.
- Prototyping 3D interfaces
- What will software and information systems look like in 30 years?
- Semi-automatic Geotagging of Field Photographs
- A Database About Everything - Creating a Data Model for Structuring Unstructured Data About (almost) Anything - the site prototype is available at SSPiN , feel free to use it. To get admin priviliges email quentin.christensen@live.com.
- Getting a JOB in the IA/UX market - who's hiring, who and how they hire, etc. (Also might be interesting to add an innie vs. outie perspective - I can speak to hiring from an innie pov)
- Savvy career web profile uses
- Controlling e-profiles and social networking instead of letting it control you.
- Mobile tools for contractors/freelancers/career folks on the move
- Is InfoCamp a place to discuss how to proceed with revising a public service web site? Here's a wiki for your input http://pugetsoundstc.pbwiki.com/Options_and_Opinions
- Axure is Visio on Crack: How to accomplish wireframes and a functional prototype at the same time
- Low tech (or no tech) knowledge management systems in developing countries
- Usability professionals don't care about privacy
- Medpedia: healthcare informatics
- Geoinformatics: Why You Need the Science, Why the Scientists Need You
- IA/UX and Marketing - in many organizations, Marketing is doing work that significantly impacts IA/UX. What you need to know about Online Marketing in order to maximize UX influence and get the seat at the table.
- Organizing Chaos - managing and expressing rate of change
- User-Centered Information & Diagram Design: How to Make Lasagna Instead of Spaghetti (Slidecast now available)
- Neon 4 All! Public Libraries Incorporating Technology in Holland
What do YOU want to learn?
What would you like to hear others present about?
- Accessibility and usability
- Promoting ideas and brands using social media
- User research techniques
- IA and user testing for government websites
- Critical skills towards getting an IA/UX job
- How to interview for an IA/UX job
- A 101 session on IA/UX concepts
- Service design for libraries or other information-rich contexts
- Georeferencing
- Virtual reference services
- Setting up an information brokering business
- Why hasn't the internet fundamentally changed the finance & insurance industries, how is this stubbornness related to the current financial crisis, and how should these industries change to take advantage of the affordances provided by the internet?
- Potential of multitouch in new media, consumer applications, home-brew projects, etc.
- Incorporating online community experience into public library service
- Discussion on if/how you handle content strategy in your organization
- Discussion- why are most library databases kind of lame? How can we challenge our database providers to step up and provide rich user experiences for our patrons?
- Visually arranging and animating non numeric information to enhance understanding
- The role of context and its implementation in IA
- Add more ideas here!
Comments (8)
Aaron said
at 6:41 pm on Sep 22, 2008
Q: Is InfoCamp a place to discuss how to proceed with revising a public service web site?
A: Definitely! This is exactly the kind of topic InfoCamp is best suited for. There'll be librarians passionate about public service & findability and user-centered designers passionate about information architecture & usability. Both audiences could learn from each other by collaborating on this topic.
Quentin said
at 7:11 pm on Sep 22, 2008
I noticed a request for a 101 session on IA/UX. How much interest is there in a panel for this and what type of concepts would you like covered? Presenting a panel such as this would take some time to prepare, but if there is enough interest I would be willing to take it on. We could discuss the user centered design process from start to finish but this wouldn’t touch much on UX. For IA I was planning on doing a panel around database design but with somewhat advanced concepts. If there is enough interest I could use that one to cover basic topics such as relations, requirements gathering, conceptual, and logical design. Are there enough people just learning about this stuff that they would want me to stick to basics? Let me know so I can prepare.
Kristen said
at 12:00 pm on Sep 23, 2008
Sorry, no answers for you, Quentin. :) But I have a similar question for everyone. I noticed a request for a session on virtual reference services. What sort of session would be interesting? I coordinate my library's VR services. After seeing this comment, I've been thinking about talking about my research into the questions asked on VR and asking for insight into how my research can inform a future re-design of our library's web site. Would that be useful? Or are you looking more for a general discussion of VR services?
Nick Finck said
at 6:50 pm on Sep 25, 2008
I would be happy to speak on any of these topics:
# Critical skills towards getting an IA/UX job
# How to interview for an IA/UX job
# A 101 session on IA/UX concepts
...but on the last one, I agree with Quentin, what specific areas do you want to cover? I have a canned presentation that covers the basics of what UX is... but I think your looking for more depth here.
Quentin said
at 8:25 pm on Sep 25, 2008
Hi Nick. I am planning to do a 101 on UX Saturday morning for the first round. If you want to coordinate with me and join in then feel free to send me an email. Otherwise, I look forward to seeing you this weekend. For this session I plan to talk about UX - usability, desirability, and usefulness and the software development lifecycle with a strong focus on Alan Cooper's goal directed design process. I will go through each step of Cooper’s process including planning, research, modeling, requirements, framework, refinement, and support while adding information about different methods you can use at each step. For example for research I will talk about focus groups, longitudinal studies, interviews, and observations.
Nick Finck said
at 9:43 pm on Sep 25, 2008
I am going to leave the 101 to you Quentin. I'll sign up to do one of the two "getting a UX job" sessions. :)
Anonymous said
at 8:30 am on Sep 26, 2008
If there is interest, I can speak to getting an IA/UX job from the 'innie' perspective vs with an agency.
Nick Finck said
at 3:55 pm on Sep 26, 2008
Samantha, are you meaning getting a IA/UX job at a company who is not a web agency? Yes, I can do that. However, if you mean going from one job role in a company to a IA/UX job role, that is something I can address but it largely depends on the culture within a company.
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