From rhill at asis.org Fri Dec 3 13:37:56 2010 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:37:56 -0500 Subject: [Sighlth-l] First ASIST Lecture Announced Message-ID: ASIST is pleased to announce that the first in the "ASIST Lecture Series" will be presented by Dr. Sherrilynne Fuller on Monday, April 11, at the University of Kentucky. Dr Fuller will speak on "From Intervention Informatics to Prevention Informatics." Attendance is expected to be the UK health / information community, but will be captured and made available to ASIST members and others afterwards. Dr. Fuller is Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the School of Public Health and the Information School, University of Washington. Professor Fuller is also Co-Director of the UW Center for Public Health Informatics. She received her BA (Biology) and MLS (information Science) degrees from Indiana University and her PhD (Information Science) from the University of Southern California. http://faculty.washington.edu/sfuller/ Dr. Fuller will speak on the topic of "From intervention Informatics to prevention informatics." This speech will focus on her work on developing health information systems (from individual patient records to building integrated databases and tools to support disease surveillance). She will discuss how the established model of information systems to support intervention is leading to what she calls "prevention informatics," in which information systems help prevent disease in the first place. She will discuss how the use of information and communications technologies for improving health in low resource settings. She believes that many of the information systems problems in developing countries are mirrored in a variety of ways in the United States. --- The ASIS&T Lecture series was announced in 2010 as an annual program. A description of the lecture series guidelines is available at http://www.asis.org/awards/Lecture_Series.html _____ Richard B. Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fax: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 From rhill at asis.org Mon Dec 27 13:15:37 2010 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:15:37 -0500 Subject: [Sighlth-l] ASIS&T Webinar - Intro to Information Architecture Message-ID: <3811-2201012127181537509@Dick-new-IBM> [Apologies for multiple postings.] Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 1:30-2:30pm (EST) Registration: $20 ASIS&T Members / $49 Non-Members Description: In this virtual seminar, you'll learn all about information architecture - what it is, why it's so important to do well and the major things to do and not to do. We'll discuss: - how people look for information and what they need to do with it when they find it - different ways you can organize information and when they are suitable - exactly how (processes) you can figure out the best ways to organize your content - the tricky issue of what to call things - other key IA tips It's all based on Donna's experience designing information architecture, navigation and content for a wide range of information systems (usually big ones) such as government and corporate websites, intranets and document management systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Presenter Donna Spencer Donna?s a freelance information architect, interaction designer and writer. That?s a fancy way of saying she plans how to present the things you see on your computer screen, so that they?re easy to understand, engaging and compelling. Things like the navigation, forms, categories and words on intranets, websites, web applications and business systems. Most of the projects Donna works on are large, messy monsters, like government websites and intranets, internal business applications and web applications. But she still gets to work on something small and cool too. So she?s completely aware of the challenges of long-term, ongoing projects and short-burst, agile projects. She?s also an old hand at sketching screens, drawing wireframes and building prototypes. But whatever sort of job Donna?s working on, there?s one common requirement. She has to comprehensively understand the needs of the people who will use it. Only then can she make the system as usable as possible. Luckily, she?s also quite fond of people, so doing user research and running usability tests is a pleasure, not a pain. Not surprisingly, given Donna?s obsession with usability and fondness of people, she?s also quite the teacher. She?s a very experienced speaker and regularly holds workshops and speaks at local and international conferences, on the topics of information architecture, interaction design, the web, writing and more. She even runs a user experience conference (UX Australia). Donna?s been doing this since 2002. She?s worked on the boards of the Information Architecture Institute (international), Web Industry Professionals Association (WIPA) and has judged many web awards. She?s also written three books ? on card sorting, web writing and now information architecture Dick Hill Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900