Overview

Saturday

Sunday, Monday

For those of you who liked the ibm.com poster at the IA Summit, you can also vote for us for a Webby Award. We are 1 of 5 finalists in the IT/Hardware/Software category.

• Background information about the ibm.com re-design
  
• About the Webby Awards
  
• Where to register your People's Voice vote
  

If you want to blog about this, please don't link directly to the mp3s' URLs, files will be moved to a different server soon.

I was presenting at the time and couldn't attend. Any action points, initiatives, mailinglists, shared resources, etc. that I should know of?

Light refreshments will be served, and a donation of $5 is requested.

Email stacy at greenfx dot net if you'd like to join us.

Hosted by DCIA (http://www.dc-ia.com)

We can host one at Multimedia Skills in Driebergen, the Netherlands (which is only 45 minute drive from Amsterdam and a couple of hours from Belgium and Germany or even Denmark and the North of France).

Of course we are willing to present our poster from this and last year, and are happy to give our floor to the other European presenters.

Please let me know if you're interested via e-mail.

Innovative CMS Implementation in an Academic Library: The Transition from Static to Dynamic Pages on the Middlebury College Library Web Site

For those who requested a copy of my poster on using simple building blocks to create exeuctive dashboards, the pdf version is available for download from my site.

Lane Becker, Peter Merholz, and I have been chatting about having another IA Summit Redux in the San Francisco Bay Area, similar to last year. The Redux is basically a mini-version of the IA Summit, with area speakers re-presenting their stuff to a local audience (for free). Last year it was an all-day Saturday session at Hot Studios. This year it will be at Adaptive Path (go-go AP Partners!), date and time TBD. We will be contacting area speakers one-to-one, but this is to put the idea out there. If you are not a speaker from the SF Bay Area but might be in town sometime in the late March to early April range, drop me a line and we'll see if we can't work you into the schedule as well.

I know David Heller has expressed interest in doing a NY Summit Redux. I encourage the IAs in any geographical area to try and pull this off. It was pretty fun last year.

StUX - integrating IA deliverables in a software development methodology

Feedback is welcome, and I'll be happy to explain elements if requested. Just not in the next week, because I am going on a (well-deserved, thank you) 1-week snowboard holiday.

It is not longer available - sorry. Donna has more info here - http://www.maadmob.net/donna/blog/archives/000598.html

Thanks to Mike Lee for the amazing photos. Erin Malone also posted some wonderful photos of the IA Slam to the flickr photo blog.

This year we asked the teams to provide an information architecture to facilitate a merger situation: the big box value-conscious retailer Bal*mart had purchased the legendary service-oriented apparel retailer Fordstrom, and was looking to leverage their existing supplier agreements and customer loyalty to monetize the seamless integration of customer experience and merchandise value across multiple channels. (Is that enough bizspeak for you, Dave?)

I'd like to join the other members of the IA Slam production team (Eric Reiss, Matthew Fetchko, and Chris Chandler) in thanking all of you who participated this year. What we get out of the IA Slam is directly related to what you get out of it, and we're grateful that your energy and enthusiasm continue to inspire us to greater heights (or depths?)

We've already begun considering ideas for next year's proposal, and we'd welcome any feedback you'd like to send us. You can post it here, for everyone's viewing and response, or you can send it directly to us at lynnboyden (at) gmail.com. We can't guarantee we'll incorporate your suggestions, but we'll certainly read them, and almost certainly argue about them.

Thanks to everyone, and congratulations again to Team Orange!