Families fight. When you share that much time with the same people, and put your faith in them, and share a common history, and become reliant on one another’s successes, it’s very easy to feel disappointed and confused and argumentative when things don’t seem to be going right. But ultimately what allows you to express [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Organizations'
IA Summit 2009: A functional family reunion
March 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Community, Conferences
Tags:Conferences·Learning·Organizations·Pioneers·User Experience
Please help me feed hungry New Yorkers #tenbuckthursday
March 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Social Networking
As you might already know, I’m involved with a great organization called Social Media for Social Change that takes advantage of the connections we make online in order to produce face-to-face fundraising events around the country. The first Social Media for Social Change fundraising event in New York City will be held on the evening [...]
I have joined the UXnet board of directors
February 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Career, Pleasure
In mid-December, the venerable Lou Rosenfeld asked me if I would join the UXnet board of directors. Saying no to Lou would have been wildly foolish. After all, he literally wrote the book on information architecture. Initially published in February 1998, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, co-written with Peter Morville, is one of [...]
Tags:Career·Organizations·Pioneers·Pleasure·Props·User Experience
I was asked to join the IAI Board of Advisors
November 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Career
You may remember that I ran for the Information Architecture Institute‘s board of directors in September, but wasn’t elected. Though I couldn’t announce it until recently, three weeks ago I was asked by the new Board of Directors — Jorge Arango, Peter Boersma, Christian Crumlish, Andrew Hinton, Livia Labate, Stacy Surla, and Russ Unger — [...]
Congrats to the new IAI board members
September 15th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Community
I just received an e-mail to notify me that I was not elected to the Information Architecture Institute’s board of directors. While I am disappointed that I won’t be able to represent the IAI in an official capacity and help them to reach a new generation of IA practitioners, I’ll still keep fighting the good [...]
Tags:Community·Organizations
