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A short summary of the Information Design Conference 2007 has been posted.

Summary from the site:

The Information Design Conference 2007 was held in Greenwich, London on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th March. There were about 110 participants, including 22 speakers, from about 20 countries including UK, USA, Brazil, Mexico, The Netherlands and Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, Portugal and Spain, Qatar, Hong Kong. Many participants work across national borders: Brazilians in the US and UK, Brits abroad, Germans in the Netherlands and so on. And many had heard of the event from the InfoDesign-Cafe list, or its sister list, the announcements-only InfoDesign list.

One of the important effects of conferences is that it is easy to make contacts, initiate activities and test ideas. The available posters are an easy start to achieve this. Furthermore, students are introduced to potential employers, researchers can discuss their work with practitioners, practitioners find common ground for co-operation, and approaches from other specialisms can be picked up and applied to personal situations.

It is likely that audio recordings and slides of several of these talks will soon be available from the IDA website.

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Dr. Ian Howells, Chief Marketing Officer of Alfresco (an Open Source solution for enterprise content management) and Dan Keldsen of Delphi Group, discuss mind maps, learning how to learn, ECM, and open source strategy in this podcast.

Jeff Parks recorded the entire day at the recent Bar Camp in Ottawa Canada. The podcast is posted at http://iapodcast.blogspot.com/ In the first couple of clips there is some background conversation. The post includes time intervals for each presentation or discussion. Topics include social tagging, writing for the web,  Adobe’s new tool Flex, and more.

Kadir Has University. Faculty of Communication. Communication, Art and Design. 2nd International Doctoral Consortium.  29-30 March 2006. Kadir Has University, Cibali Conference Hall, Istanbul, Turkey.
 
Call for Participation:
Kadir Has University is hosting an international doctoral consortium to encourage quality research, publication and creation of an international network of academics who exchange ideas in related fields. This is a two day event comprised of workshops organized around common themes.

-Media and Communication Studies
-Cinema Studies  
-Drama and Performance
-Design and Communication
-Media, City and Spectacle (more…)

November 3 - 8, 2006. ASIS&T 2006 Annual Meeting. Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All Austin Texas. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/index.html  (more…)

To gather information for the next edition of “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web,” Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville have been surveying the Information Architecture community.

The newest survey “IA Education Survey, for Practitioners” is now open. The authors would greatly appreciate your input. (more…)

This list of opportunities was initially posted in 2005. If you have additions or corrections please leave a comment. (more…)

This is a list of conferences specifically focused on information design and information architecture.

For events after December 2005, please visit the events calendar being compiled at this time by the Online SIG at http://www.stcsig.org/oi/on_conferences.htm and on http://stc-on.org/online Please note that announcement of events is a work in progress and this post will be modified from time to time. It may even be deleted eventually. 

This list of conferences was posted in 2005. Many of these events take place regularly every two years. If you would like to update this list for 2007, please contact the website manager. The email address is on the Leadership Team page.

Events are listed from latest to earliest. (more…)

AIGA (the American Institute of Graphic Arts) held a Digital Information Design Camp for from June to August, 2005. Online orientation was held June 27 to July 1, 2005, with the online instructional program from July 5 to July 25, 2005. Preparation for the online exhibition was from July 26, with online launch August 1, 2005. Participants were AIGA members who applied to participate. The program of study is conducted online both to allow participation by working people, and to provide experience in online design. The goal is to provide training in computing technologies for traditional designers, and to provide traditional design education for professional designers trained primarily in digital design. For details, visit http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/didcamp (originally posted in June 2005).

These links are to lists of degree programs. If you know of other listings of degree programs in fields related to information design, please leave a comment. (more…)