IA Institute announcements.

[Austin Govella <austin AT grafofini.com>]

Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture
--> http://www.aifia.org

Happy New Year, everyone. The AIfIA newsletter is
published roughly every other week featuring news about
AIfIA and our partner sites: Boxes and Arrows, IAslash,
and IAwiki.



---- WHAT'S NEW WITH AIFIA -- http://www.aifia.org ----

1) AIfIA CONTENT MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP AT IA SUMMIT
AIfIA will be holding a workshop, Content Management
for Information Architects, on February 27, 2004, in
conjunction with the 2004 IA Summit (February 27- 29,
2004). A portion of the fee will help support the
non-profit activities of AIfIA. Early registration ends
next Friday, January 24, 2004.
--> REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP:
http://aifia.org/pg/workshop_iasummit_2004

2) AIfIA ANNOUNCES 2004 GOALS
The board has released their goals for 2004, intending
to build the practice, explain the value, and further
develop members-only services and benefits. You can
download the goals as a PDF from the AIfIA website.
--> DOWNLOAD THE 2004 GOALS:
http://aifia.org/news/000290.php



---- WHAT'S NEW WITH OUR PARTNERS ----



-- IASLASH -- http://www.iaslash.org

Some good links that have been posted to IAslash in the
past few weeks:

The scalability of findability - can IA move beyond web
sites?
--> http://iaslash.org/node/view/7524

Social Circles: Mailing list social visualization
(This is *really* neat)
--> http://iaslash.org/node/view/7520

iaslash is daily news for information architects.
--> http://iaslash.org/



-- BOXES AND ARROWS -- http://www.boxesandarrows.com/

Two good recent articles in the January issue:

1) "Personalization is not Technology: Using Web
Personalization to Promote your Business Goal" -
Personalization, properly implemented, brings focus to
your message and delivers an experience that is
visitor-oriented, quick to inform, and relevant.
Personalization, poorly implemented, complicates the
user experience and orphans content. This article
describes what separates the freshness from the noise.
--> http://tinyurl.com/2gdqf

2) "Designing for Limited Resources" -
When resources are limited, the design must be
optimized to make the best use of all resources. To
account for this complexity, it is important to have a
clear understanding of both sides of the design
equation—what you have to work with and what you are
trying to build.
--> http://tinyurl.com/243m9

Read other recent Boxes and Arrows articles:
--> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/2004_01.php

All previous articles by categories:
--> http://boxesandarrows.com/archives/cat_index.php

Boxes and Arrows is the definitive source for the
complex task of bringing architecture and design to the
digital landscape.
--> http://boxesandarrows.com/



-- IAWIKI -- http://www.IAwiki.net/

Where can I find information on Content Management?
--> http://www.iawiki.net/ContentManagementSystems

Are there any new books for IA?
--> http://www.iawiki.net/BooksForIA

Looking for Recent Changes to the IAwiki?
--> http://www.IAwiki.net/RecentChanges

IAwiki is a collaborative discussion space for the
topic of Information Architecture. Anyone can
contribute, and there are no pre-registration hoops to
jump thru.
--> http://www.IAwiki.net/



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