May 2, 2004: Tools for Information Architects The AIfIA Tools Initiative is slowly but steadily building an excellent collection of tools and other resources...
May 10, 2004: News Backlog In a new article in EContent, Tony Byrne of CMS Watch asks "Why do Enterprise Content Management (ECM) projects take so long to...
May 12, 2004: Tentative Fall Seminar Dates Steve Krug and I are wrapping up our spring tour with a stop in Seattle, May 27-28 (and yes, there are still a few...
May 17, 2004: Connecting Top-Down and Bottom-Up Visually I was poking around, Googling "information discovery," and stumbled on a simple but really useful...
May 21, 2004: Interesting New Newsletter From KM Connection's Philip Murray, editor of their new bi-monthly (as in six times per year) "Barrington Report on...
May 26, 2004: Seattle's New Central Library Greetings from downtown Seattle's brand new Central Library, where I can post a quick blog entry courtesy of the...
June 23, 2004: AIfIA is Hiring This happened sooner than I'd ever imagined. Well, it is just a part-time position, but we've come a long way since November...
Today's Bloug entry is (again) longish, so I won't send it by email. The URL is: http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/000270.html It's just a slight...
June 28, 2004: Search and Taxonomy--Why Separate Teams? A friend who works in a mammoth enterprise environment recently sent me this very good question: "Do...
July 2, 2004: Why Should We Be Trusted? A colleague recently told me that one of the biggest challenges that she and other in-house information architects...
July 6, 2004: The Inevitable Announcement Did you think I meant Kerry's announcement? Heh. Anyway, might as well make it official: Steve's and my fall 2004...
July 8, 2004: IA Criteria for CMS Selection An interesting thread just got going on the AIfIA-members discussion list. What information architecture,...
July 9, 2004: New CMS Report Discusses Usability and Metadata Speaking of CMS, version 6 of Tony Byrne's CMS Report is now available. I'm thrilled that...
July 13, 2004: Shared Taxonomies Verity's Walter Underwood pointed me to Verity's Collaborative Classifier (the classifier formerly known as Quiver). Walter...
July 19, 2004: AIfIA Second Annual Report Courtesy of Gene Smith, here are the highlights from AIfIA's second annual ... * Membership has grown 37% in the...
July 21, 2004: AIfIA Launches IA Mentoring Program More good stuff from AIfIA; a new mentoring program, which "aims to improve the skills of current and...
July 28, 2004: What If? What if... ... you could find out about all the local events and meetings relevant to your work that will take place in your area over...
August 5, 2004: NYC Seminar Early Regi Deadline is Tomorrow Hi; just a reminder that tomorrow (August 6) is the deadline for the early registration discount...
August 6, 2004: Blogs + Egos = Learning? Had an interesting breakfast discussion yesterday with Bud Gibson, a professor at the University of Michigan business...
August 9, 2004: Mess O'Stuff Catching up with a backlog of assorted tidbits... The Interaction Design Group launched its web site (http://www.ixdg.org). ...
August 16, 2004: Getting Hired Over on urlgreyhot, Michael Angeles blogs "How to apply for IA jobs". Extremely useful posting for those in a position to hire,...
August 17, 2004: Information Architecture Heuristics A longish piece (probably too longish for email) on questions to ask as you evaluate an information...
August 20, 2004: IA and Information Management Jochen Fassbender writes: "Last week there was a meeting of three AIfIA members in Hamburg: Britta Glatten,...
September 2, 2004: IA Heuristics for Search Systems Another set of IA guidelines, this time focusing specifically on search systems. Too many heuristics (44...
September 10, 2004: Semantic Technology Conference This looks interesting: the first annual Semantic Technology Conference. Don't know much about who's...
September 15, 2004: Information Architecture Guidelines A colleague writes: "I'm helping write an IA guide where we are documenting the organization, ...
September 16, 2004: Step Two's Intranet Roadmap You may already know that I'm a big fan of roadmaps. We're all paralyzed by overwhelmingly large, nasty...
September 16, 2004: Early registration deadline for Chicago is 9/24 Quick reminder for you Chicagoland folks: early registration deadline for Steve Krug's...