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Off to the International Information Industry Awards
We're off to the International Information Industry Awards tomorrow night, where the Knowledge Community we developed for our clients, the National Institute for Mental Health in England, is up for an award in the Innovation in Knowledge Management category. read full post
Peripheral vision and ambient knowledge
Dave Snowden talks about how we make sense through pattern matching rather than linear analysis. Social software can support this process by improving our peripheral vision and helping us organise our own eco-system of links, cues and sources to improve our sense making and decision making ability. My own presentation, linked from the piece, describes how we can go about achieving this. read full post
Organisational Culture and knowledge sharing
Understanding, and in some cases influencing organisational culture is an imporant requisite for effective knowledge sharing - it is also not something that conventional enterprise software does very well read full post
How to Apply for (IA) Jobs
How to apply for Information Architecture jobs, with useful hints for any job seekers in this industry read full post
Excellent wrap-up of IA Summit 2004
IA Summit wrap-up read full post
Who owns the linkages?
Louis Rosenfeld thinking about EIA as corporate IP - bring on the lawyers! read full post
Intro to the use of Personas in user experience design
guide to using personas to provide a clear target for UX design, especially for information-rich sites read full post
Lack of communication and the failure of organisations
Mitch Ratcliffe talks about the impact of lack of communiaction in organisational failure read full post
Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design
Good piece about getting the right balance of elements in good Web design, and the impact of not enough/too much complexity. read full post
Encouraging information literacy among staff
Organisations are finally beginning to recognise that information literacy is a key skill for their staff. Vivienne Winterman, Val Skelton and Angela Abell have been looking at current developments. read full post
Cognitive Psychology & IA
Cognitive Psychology & Information Architecture: From Theory to Practice read full post
The sociobiology of Information Architecture
Much as we may like to think of ourselves as belonging to a uniquely privileged species, the fact is that every complex organism on this planet is engaged in a shared struggle with information overload... read full post
Good guide to creating a controlled vocabulary
Boxes and Arrows teaching us how to build a controlled vocabulary read full post
Information Architecture Summit
Links to notes and presentations from the 2003 Information Architecture Summit read full post
Primer on the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model
Useful introduction to some of the key terms we use in information architecture and the "semantic web" read full post
Offensive ontologies
Cycorp ontology builder wants to join Poindexter's TIA programme read full post
