[Sigia-l] Feb 10 deadline for IA 06 Summit

[Richard Hill]

Reminder:

You must register by February 10, 2006 in order to get the early rates for
the IA 06 Summit.

IA Summit home page: http://www.iasummit.org/
Registration pages: http://www.iasummit.org/2006/registration.htm

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Opening plenary: Dr. David Weinberger, author of Small Pieces 
Loosely Joined and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, as this year's
keynote speaker.

Closing Plenary: Peter Merholz, a regular speaker at Web design and 
information architecture conferences, including the IA Summit, South 
by Southwest (SXSW), and the UI Conference. 

And 54 additional superb sessions in between, ranging from practice 
to research.

Pre Conference Sessions:
Thursday, March 23
- Enhancing Your Strategic Influence: Understanding and Responding to
Complex Business Problems.  Victor Lombardi, John Zapolski, Scott Hirsch,
Harry Max, Mark McCormick
-  "My Surgeon is a Butcher" - Frames and Conceptual Blending for 
IAs (1/2 day, Thursday morning).  Sarah A. Rice, Claiborne Rice
-  Writing Business Requirements for Information Architects (1/2 
day, Thursday morning).  Karyn Zuidinga, Sinisa Nojkovic
- Interaction Design (IxD) Symposium  (Full day Thursday).  David
Heller, Lada Gorlenko, Luke Wroblewski, Lisa deBettencourt
- The Secret Design Strategies for Highly Successful Web Sites  (Full day
Thursday). Jared M. Spool
- An Introduction to Rapid Design Labs; a Fast, Collaborative 
Approach to Information Architecture and Interface Design (1/2 day Thursday
afternoon). Dave Robertson

Friday, March 24
- From Research to Design: A Hands-On How-To  (1/2 day Friday morning).
Donna Maurer
- Strategic Intranet Planning (1/2 day Friday morning).  James 
Robertson
- Next Horizons for Information Architecture (IA Institute)  (Full 
day Friday).  Dan Brown, Harry Max, Peter Merholz
- Crafting Understanding-based Structures: Creating Usable Content
(Full day Friday). Thom Haller
 - Creating Conceptual Comics: Storytelling and Techniques  (Full 
day Friday).  Kevin Cheng, Jane Jao, Mark Wehner
- Information Architecture & Findability  (Full day Friday).  Peter
Morville
- Paper Prototyping 2  (1/2 day Friday afternoon).  Todd Warfel
- Introduction to Information Architecture  (1/2 day Friday afternoon).
Donna Maurer

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Richard B. Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Silver Spring, MD  20910
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