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...
September 20, 2004: CM Professionals Launches As of about a half hour ago, CM Professionals, a new professional community of practice, is now public. Looks...
September 23, 2004: Complete a Brief Survey on IA Trends? I've just set up a really short survey (really, it is short!) to detect past and future trends...
September 27, 2004: IA Trends Survey--Last Chance The numbers are looking great. (At least I think so; relative to what I'm not sure.) 247 of you have...
September 28, 2004: IA Summit 2005 CFP and Details Wow, we've just about made it to our sixth IA Summit! What a ride it's been; great from the start, and...
October 1, 2004: Local UX Activities Sorry for the late notice, but in about an hour, the NYC conflagration of folks from AIfIA, AIGA, IxDG, NYC CHI, STC and...
October 4, 2004: CM Professionals Summit Announcement If you've enjoyed the IA Summit and are interested in content management, you might check out the CM...
October 5, 2004: Ignoring Information Needs A colleague is working with a user group of seniors, and had found some interesting research on how they interact...
October 6, 2004: Intranet Trends Shiv Singh of Avenue A/Razorfish wrote an interesting piece on intranets for Line56. He identifies eight trends based on his...
October 12, 2004: Global IA Widget In the spirit of LazyWeb, here's something that'd be really useful for global information architectures, assuming it's even...