Pat’s Point of View

I will be giving a short presentation at the 7th annual Open Publish conference on the subject of Information Architecture Best Practice. The conference will be focusing on management and implementation issues relating to publishing technology based on open standards.

The conference is at the Rydges World Square Hotel, in Sydney, from August 1st to 3rd. My session will be on August 2nd at 4:45pm (awesome, last session of the day!). Here’s my blurb for the topic:

This presentation will examine the purpose and application of information architecture for the so-called ‘next generation’ of information tools, including blogs and wikis. We will introduce ‘needs based’ information architecture, the methodology used for organising and designing information-rich environments in a way that allows people to use them more easily. We will then look at how the best practice principles behind this approach apply equally well to emerging technologies.

There are at least five presentations with ‘2.0′ in the title, so I think there will be more than plenty of discussion regarding social tools and Rich Internet Applications. There are also at least three other presenters touching on IA or user experience design. So trying to find a unique perspective is going to be a challenge :)

Some of the other presenters I hope to see during the conference include Lisa Herrod, Russ Weakley and Ash Donaldson.

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