http://iacanberra.org Supporting the Information Architecture community of Canberra, Australia Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:33:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 24 April 2008. It's going to be hard to follow up the fantastically thought provoking, engaging and informative Cocktail Hour in March—thanks to Donna and Stuart for some great presentations. But Jessica Enders, Director of Formulate Information Design, is never afraid of a challenge ... http://iacanberra.org/2008/04/17/ia-cocktail-hour-24-april-2008/ After 6 years associated with the Canberra IA Cocktail Hour group, and eighteen months or more in the co-coordinator's seat, I thought it was time I wrote about running a successful IA Cocktail Hour program. "Success" is a loaded word - for me, it means 8-12 people turning up once a ... http://iacanberra.org/2008/04/03/running-a-successful-ia-cocktail-hour-program/ The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is this Thursday 27 March 2008. It's going to be a bumper session, with: the ever entertaining Donna Maurer examining how work structure (consultant or freelancer) impacts on IA services a SAP Learning Support case study from Stuart Dunn, of SMSMT. Those who are interested are welcome to ... http://iacanberra.org/2008/03/26/ia-cocktail-hour-27-march-2008/ The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Thursday 28 February 2008. We have two topics: Stephen Hall from SMSMT is going to talk to us about Integrated Administrative Design Dane Buchardt from SMSMT will walk us through a case study of a department coming to grips with e-learning. The department was struggling ... http://iacanberra.org/2008/02/21/ia-cocktail-hour-28-february-2008/ Our first topic of discussion this month was to talk about how we can set up a virtual library for our group - the idea was to find something that would allow us to find books that other local IAs have and borrow rather than buy. Fairly simple concept and ... http://iacanberra.org/2007/11/26/ia-library/ The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Thursday 15 November 2007. We have two topics: - iacanberra.org library: we’ve talked about having a virtual library over the last month or so – and now it is time to put something in place. ... http://iacanberra.org/2007/11/08/canberra-ia-cocktail-hour-thursday-15-november-2007/ Tonight at IA Cocktail hour, Ruth Ellison gave us a great case study about accessibility challenges at Organisation X, a place where she has worked sometime during the last 5 years or so. She talked about the: different types of accessibility/disability they had to work with differences between designing for a custom-built ... http://iacanberra.org/2007/10/18/accessibility-dyslexia-and-heroes/ I was digging through some old paperwork today and found a page I wrote during the very first Canberra IA Cocktail hour - way back in 2002. It was a list of topics we wanted to discuss. This is what we wanted to talk about back then: Storytelling What is KM? Deliverables wireframes site maps personas and ... http://iacanberra.org/2007/10/14/ia-cocktail-hour-5-years-ago/ Ruth Ellison from DIAC will present on Accessibility. Accessibility is often one of the last things to be considered when developing a system. This can happen for many reasons, including the organisational context and general misconceptions about accessibility. We will be looking at a case study of the challenges ... http://iacanberra.org/2007/10/14/ia_oct18/ I was hoping we managed a photo of the Canberra crew at Oz-IA, but I think we forgot it. So here's the best I could find for some of the regulars: Ruth's spoiler t-shirt: Caronne, Nigel and Ruth at dinner: Matt Hodgson: Stephen Hall: Donna Maurer: Andrew Boyd: Stephen Collins: http://iacanberra.org/2007/10/01/ia-canberra-folks-at-oz-ia/