Just a reminder that the Oz-IA conference is approaching fast…
Earlybird registrations are open now, and close next Tuesday 9 September.
Earlybird registrations are A$660, or A$550 if you quote the discount code MR0243. Register online at the conference web site.
The conference will be held in Sydney, on the weekend of 20-21 September.
Who should attend?
Designers of navigation, [...]
The lovely people at A List Apart are running a demographic survey about people who build web sites.
Here’s a bit of the ALA blurb about why the survey is important:
“Possibly the most important invention of the past century, the web is undeniably one of the most robust engines of knowledge transfer, political and social change, [...]
For the Information Futures project we used Tagcrowd.com to generate visual representations of three documents — the Consultation Paper, the set of 70-odd written submissions, and the draft strategy. These tag clouds have been useful for showing the similarities and differences in what people care about.
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Next month in Sydney, Richard Wiggins (Michigan State University) will lead a one-day masterclass on search analytics.
Rich has been working with Lou Rosenfeld on a new book about search analytics, so I’m looking forward to hearing what he has to say.
Tags: search, wiggins, user experience, analytics
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