[Sigia-l] Oz-IA/2006 -- programme update & registrations open

[Eric Scheid]

We've finally worked out the list of sessions for the Oz-IA/2006 Conference
& Retreat:

     http://www.oz-ia.org/2006/program.shtml

Over the next few weeks we¹ll be expanding the detail on each session. Stay
tuned for more news, or sign up for announcement emails. Subscribe to the
RSS/Atom news feeds today!

     http://www.oz-ia.org/2006/news.shtml
     http://www.oz-ia.org/2006/email-signup.shtml

There's quite a few sessions planned and so we will be scheduling them into
two concurrent streams. We haven't decided which session goes into which
stream just yet, but you can help by telling us which sessions you most want
to attend. If you tell us which sessions you are most interested in we can
try to make sure there are no clashes :-)

     http://www.oz-ia.org/2006/register.shtml

Obviously, we've also opened registrations. The conference fees are detailed
on that page.

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Keynote:

  Mark Bernstein:
    False intentions and the fallacy of finding


Presentations:

  Thomas Vander Wal:
    Folksonomy to Improve IA

  Donna Maurer: 
    Lakoff's 'Women, Fire & Dangerous Things' - What every IA should know

  Dan Saffer: 
    Beyond wireframes: documenting AJAX and RIA

  Steve Baty: 
    Statistical concepts & techniques for the practicing IA

  David Sless: 
    From Mnemonics to Measurement: designing easily navigable information

  Hurol Inan: 
    Web Analytics Case Study

  James Robertson: 
    Succeeding at IA in the enterprise

  Ash Donaldson:
    User research: Questioning the answers 

  Stephen Hall & Andrew Boyd
    The IA of PDA

  Alexander Johannesen:
    Sexier, smarter and faster IA through Topic Maps


Interactive workshop sessions:

    These sessions have been scheduled in response to the question "what
could we do to improve the practice of IA if we happened to have 30+ smart
and passionate IAs in the one room?". It¹s a bit of an experiment, but
likely to at least be fun.

    Each session will be kicked off by a presenter, and then handed over to
the attendees to workshop the subject. Notes will be taken and made
available after the conference.

  Dan Saffer: 
    Models of Invention

  James Robertson: 
    Enterprise IA: confronting unique challenges

  Glenda Browne: 
    Websites need A to Z indexes, so why do so few have them?

  Eric Scheid: 
    Site maps: towards a common cartography


Panels:

  TBA - why not suggest a panel topic?
    http://www.oz-ia.org/2006/suggest-panel-topic.shtml

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regards,

Eric Scheid

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