The next Canberra IA Canberra meeting is Thursday 24 September 2009.
At this meeting, Stephen Holmes will be speaking about Guerrilla Knowledge Management. He describes the topic as follows:
As is the case with a lot of Information Architects, I have several hats, ranging from Information Architect to Interface Designer to Technical Writer to Trainer and once I even found myself as Lead in the development of a company’s knowledge management portal.
In much of my job my need to find a way of capturing and then disseminating technical, sales, marketing and legal information in relatively small but dispersed teams lead me to try and find ready to run open source software and straight out of the box commercial solutions to match my requirements.
This talk is about what I’ve learnt and a few ways of attacking the problem under the radar or knowledge hoarders. This methodology works well with Rapid/Agile type projects as it is a document and capture as you go kind of way of working.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Dickson afterwards.
Start Time: 17:15 for 17:30 (please come on time – the door is automatically locked at 17:30)
Finish Time: 19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 24 September 2009
Venue: Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute
Level 1
55 Woolley Street (above Zefferelli’s)
Dickson
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 23 July 2009.
We want your views!
This meeting is going to be centred around two discussion points:
- Should I stay or should I go now? Dealing with doomed projects or clients.
- The future of IA Cocktail Hour / Information Architecture Institute (IAI) Chapter meetings.
These are two important and challenging topics, so the more people involved in the discussion the better. We really hope you’ll come.
Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 23 July 2009
Venue: Stamford Interactive
Level 1
301 Canberra Avenue (right near Officeworks)
Fyshwick
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Kingston/Manuka afterwards.
The IA Cocktail Hour unorganisers are taking a winter break. This means there will be no IA Cocktail Hour on Thursday 25 June.
The next IA Cocktail Hour will be on Thursday 23 July. Topic will be announced shortly.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 28 May 2009.
David More is an information, experience and design consultant currently working for Optimal Experience but with many, many IA and user-centred design projects under his belt. 
In this IA Canberra meeting, David will be leading a discussion on mentoring and development for in-house IA/UX/UI teams. Prompted by David’s analysis, insight and examples, this will be a great opportunity to find out what others have found works (and doesn’t work) as well as sharing your ideas and stories.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Dickson afterwards.
Start Time: 17:20 for 17:30 (please come on time – the door is automatically locked at 17:30)
Finish Time: 19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 28 May 2009
Venue: Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute
Level 1
55 Woolley Street (above Zefferelli’s)
Dickson
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 23 April 2009.
For this meeting, Donna Maurer will share ideas about designing for different information behaviours. When people use websites and intranets they are doing more than just ‘finding’ information. They may be looking for something they know about or exploring something brand new; filtering through large volumes then comparing results; getting an overview of a topic or diving deep. They may even think they want to find one thing, but actually need something entirely different. Each of these information behaviours needs very different approaches to information architecture, information design and page layout.
Donna recently returned from attending and presenting at SXSW Interactive and IA Summit, and will shortly depart for UX London. This is your chance to get some of her world-famous IA insights right here in little ‘ol Canberra.
Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 23 April 2009
Venue: Stamford Interactive
Level 1
301 Canberra Avenue (right near Officeworks)
Fyshwick
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Kingston/Manuka afterwards.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 26 March 2009.
This meeting will be the first ever delivery of a engaging new presentation from Formulate Information Design, on the principles of visual perception and their relationship to electronic forms.
Come and learn about the ways we humans see, and how this knowledge can be used to help electronic forms communicate visually (and subconsciously) to users.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Dickson afterwards.
Time: 17:30-19:00 (door is locked from 18:00)
Day/Date: Thursday 26 March 2009
Venue: Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute
Level 1
55 Woolley Street (above Zefferelli’s)
Dickson
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 26 February 2009.
Nathan McDonald of the Mustor Institute is going to talk about making sense of complex documents.
The Mustor Institute works hard to make the complex world of regulation, business, contracts etc accessible for, and understandable by, all through their novel “Regulatory DNA (MIS 1000)” approach. This system for navigating through these difficult domains has been described as “revolutionary” and “one of the most exciting developments”.
Nathan will demonstrate the clarity and simplicity provided by the DNA method using examples such as:
- NSW Building Industry payment regulations;
- Austrac Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) regulations;
- Australian Department of Defence contracts; and
- Australian Taxation Office regulations.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Kingston/Manuka afterwards.
Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 26 February 2009
Venue: Stamford Interactive
Level 1
301 Canberra Avenue (right near Officeworks)
Fyshwick
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 22 January 2009.
Jessica Enders, Principal of Formulate Information Design, is going to take us on a fascinating journey of memory, cognition, language and sociology, exploring the hidden complexity behind writing a good question. This will be a dry run of a completely new talk being presented in the United States later in the year, so the more (feedback) the merrier.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Dickson afterwards.
Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 22 January 2009
Venue: Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute
Level 1
55 Woolley Street (above Zefferelli’s)
Dickson
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
IA Canberra meetings were a smash hit in 2008—well, at least those who attended got a lot out of it—and we’re looking forward to an even better year this year.
The schedule for the IA Canberra meetings for 2009 is below. (For more information about the hours—e.g. locations and times—see IA Canberra meetings.)
As you can see, there are plenty of empty slots just waiting for eager IAs/designers/developers/geeks/smart people willing to share their ideas and learnings with our friendly and interested group. If you’re interested in presenting, however formally or informally, please contact Andrew Boyd via facibus [at] gmail [dot] com.
| Date |
Topic(s) |
Location |
| 22 Jan |
Questioning questions
by Jessica Enders (Formulate Information Design) |
Ipsos-Eureka |
| 26 Feb |
Making sense of complex documents
by Nathan McDonald (Mustor Institute) |
Stamford Interactive |
| 26 Mar |
Visual design principles for electronic forms
by Jessica Enders (Formulate Information Design) |
Ipsos-Eureka |
| 23 Apr |
Communicating IA
by Donna Spencer (Maadmob) |
Stamford Interactive |
| 28 May |
Mentoring and development for in-house IA/UX/UI teams
by David More (Optimal Experience) |
Ipsos-Eureka |
| 25 Jun |
No IA Cocktail Hour (Winter break) |
|
| 23 Jul |
Group discussion: “Should I stay or should I go now? Dealing with doomed projects or clients”
plus
The future of IA Cocktail Hour/IAI Chapter meetings |
Stamford Interactive |
| 27 Aug |
No IA Cocktail Hour (UX Australia) |
|
| 24 Sept |
Guerrilla Knowledge Management by Stephen Holmes |
Ipsos-Eureka |
| 22 Oct |
No topic yet – maybe you? |
Stamford Interactive |
| 26 Nov |
No topic yet – maybe you? |
Ipsos-Eureka |
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