[Sigia-l] Why Are You an IA: Follow-up

[Robin Sherman]

Excellent, excellent, excellent slideshow. Wish I could have heard  
the audio.

Robin Sherman
Editorial & Design Services

For Books, Journals, Magazines, Manuals, Newsletters, Internet

— Information Architecture, Content Development, Organization,  
Improvement
— Developmental, Substantive, Copy Editing
— Publication Critiques
— Publication Design
— Typesetting, Typography, Layout
— Speaker, Seminars, Workshops

Small Publisher and Non-Profit Specialist

Look for me on Folio:mediaPRO
http://mediapro.foliomag.com/profile/RobinSherman

Look for me on LinkedIn.com
www.linkedin.com/in/robinshermaneditdesign

Robin Sherman
Associate Director, Newsletter Editor
American Society of Business Publication Editors
The ONLY professional association strictly for B2B editors and writers

info at asbpe.org
http://www.asbpe.org

On Nov 22, 2008, at 5:00 AM, sigia-l-request at asis.org wrote:

> Send Sigia-l mailing list submissions to
> 	sigia-l at asis.org
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> 	http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> 	sigia-l-request at asis.org
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> 	sigia-l-owner at asis.org
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Sigia-l digest..."
>
>
> Searchable list archive:   http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>    1. Why Are You an IA: Follow-up (Gail Leija)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:33:19 -0500
> From: "Gail Leija" <gail at gl-ue.com>
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Why Are You an IA: Follow-up
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Message-ID:
> 	<edec31310811210833t14dd6482s537161150c333a4b at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Thanks again to all of you who sent me IA stories.  I included some
> highlights in a presentation I gave in Toronto called "Will the Real
> Information Architect Please Stand Up?"  (slides available here:
> http://www.slideshare.net/gleija)
>
> The audience loved them and I would have liked to include them all  
> in full.
> However, because you sent your stories directly to me, I will only  
> publish
> them online or add them to the deck with your permission.  Please  
> let me
> know if that's OK.
>
> Below is a summary of the responses from the 24 stories emailed to  
> me, plus
> additional responses from informal conversations with other IAs.   
> This is in
> no way scientific but I still think it's interesting and,  
> hopefully, useful
> to people who are contemplating becoming IAs, wish they knew more  
> IAs or may
> be hiring IAs.
>
> Previous Roles:
> Technical Writer or Editor
> Advertising Copywriter
> Documentation Specialist
> Project Manger
> Content Developer
> Graphic Designer
> Web Developer
> Software Developer
> Programmer
> Instructional Designer
> Translator
> Teacher
> Musician
> Artist
> Bookbinder
>
> Industry Backgrounds:
> Automotive
> Publishing
> Aerospace
> Psychology
> Law
> Music
> TV/Broadcast
> Advertising
> Audio-Visual Production
> Document Management
> Civil Service
> Non-Profit
> Sales
> Software
> Management
>
> Educational Backgrounds (Majors, Degree Programs):
> English Language/Literature
> Non-Fiction Writing
> Creative Writing
> Psychology (Cognition)
> Journalism
> Radio/TV/Film
> Advertising
> Law
> Fine Art
> Landscape Architecture
> Japanese
> French
>
> Countries:
> Canada
> US
> UK
> Netherlands
> Denmark
> Finland
>
> Motivation/Why IA?
> To help people use technology
> To help people find information
> It's part of who I am/How I function (They can't help it!)
>
> Thanks again!
> /Gail
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sigia-l mailing list
> Sigia-l at asis.org
> http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l
>
>
> End of Sigia-l Digest, Vol 50, Issue 12
> ***************************************