Donna Maurer is well known as an Information Architect,
Interaction Designer and much more in the field of IA. She is a
Marketing and Communications Director on the board of the IA Institute, holds a leading position at ASIS&T, has delivered significant speeches at IA conferences, and this year, she was in the planning committee for the IA Summit, where she gave
the welcoming speech. With her very charming Australian accent, she gave me some answers to questions about her IA background, the intention of her conference speeches (book summary: “Women, Fire and Dangerous Things”) and workshops ( e.g., Introduction to IA). We also had the chance to talk about her role in the IA Institute and what she thinks are the challenges for us IAs over the next two years. Let’s listen to her valuable thoughts right here:

Quick Jump in Audio (18min/6,4 MB):
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01:07 Minute - Donna’s activites in the field of IA
04:55 Minute - Some words about her conference speeches
08:25 Minute - Her role in the IA Institute
11:26 Minute - The challenges of IAs

 

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In this episode about “Women in the Field of Information Architecture”, I was happy to talk with Stacy Surla at the IA Summit in Las Vegas, after she spoke in a panel discussion about “IA in Second Life”.

Stacy isn’t just the Treasurer on the Board of the IA Institute, she’s also a force behind some important initiatives, such as the Local Groups initiative. We talked about Stacy’s IA background, her IA Institute role, her IA conference speeches and many other topics, including some very interesting ideas about ambient findability in virtual worlds like Second Life.

Quick Jump in Audio (17,25min/6 MB):
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01:07 Minute - Stacy’s IA Bio and background
04:32 Minute - Her role in the IA Institute
10:20 Minute - Stacy’s conference speeches

 

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Violà - this month IA Voice the first speech recordings from the EURO IA 2006 in Berlin. Thank’s very much to the speakers for their permissions to present their presentation slides together with their speech recording. The speech recordings(and upcoming ones) are in chronological order of the conference program. View the images from the conference here at Flickr (search “euroia2006″ for all images on the conference).

Eric Reiss - Welcome and Logistics

>> Start Speech Recording(1,8 MB):
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- Over 200 Information Architects from all over Europe
- Eight time zones away, Austrailian IA Event(little Phone conference)

 

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Eric Reiss - Seven Trends in IA (Highly recommended)
-> Presentation(view this parallel to the Audio) Reiss_trends_in_ia_berlin_2006.pdf

Quick Jump in Audio(11,3 MB):

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01:55 Minute - New IA Trends in Europe - coming from the users (compared to USA)
04:35 Minute - Websites have become part of the business plan
04:33 Minute - Trend #1 - Now we’re going to make them part of the business
07:25 Minute - Customer Relation Management
08:04 Minute - Trend #2 - Websites have become more focused
11:58 Minute - Trend #3 - Websites are now truly multimedia
13:42 Minute - Trend #4 - Sitemaps are dying
16:38 Minute - Trend #5a - Customization is dead
17:38 Minute - Trend #5b - Two exceptions - Personalization lives
20:15 Minute - Trend #6 - Site search is maturing
21:30 Minute - Trend #7 - IA is not always part of the job title

Eric Reiss wrote the following book:

 

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Eris Reiss - Information Architect from US and Denmark

The European IA szene had a great time at the EURO IA conference 2006 in Berlin. And one man who’s responsible, with his team of country embassadors, for the great success is Eric Reiss.
Eric is a great supporter of the Euro IA community which is strongly growing within the last years. My name is Wolf and it was an honore for me that I had a chance to talk to him. Let’s hear what he says…

Podcast of this Interview - 33:31 minutes

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Eric Reiss wrote the following book:

 

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Tomy Lorsch - Information Architect from Spain

Here’s a well known european IA Voice from Spain. It’s Tomy Lorsch who I also met at the EURO IA conference in Berlin. You can basically meet Tomy at any IA conference in the world. Let’s listen to him right here…

Podcast of this Interview - 18:47 minutes

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Your’re now listening to a new episode (from IA Voice) – it’s an interview with Christina Wodtke and Harry Max. We had a interesting talk down in the restaurant from the conference hotel of the IA Summit. And some answers were even answered by Christina’s baby which was also part of the interview as you will hear. Let’s hear all of it…

Podcast of this Interview - 34:19 minutes

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Christina Wodtke wrote the following book:

 

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Interview with Louis Rosenfeld - IA Author, publisher and one father of IA

The upcoming episode is another interview from the IA Summit in Vancouver. This time I’m talking with Louis Rosenfeld, one father of Information Architecture. Lou was talking here on a summit track about the subject: “IA: not just for the web anymore”. He is holding up Seminars for Corporations about the Content Silos and is working as a publisher. Let’s listen to Lou’s ideas right here …

Podcast of this Interview - 43:08 minutes

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Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
00:58 minute - What’s your motivation being at the summit?
02:02 minute - Is there something specific that attracts you this field?
03:52 minute - What do you see as your IA mission?
05:10 minute - What part does IA play in your daily routine?
09:00 minute - IA in Business: Do IAs have to learn more business language?
11:20 minute - How to convince top management about the value of IA?
12:50 minute - IA new field - what if the client want’s a semantic network?
15:45 minute - Are there leverages for IAs in increating semantic networks?
18:48 minute - Disolving content silos - how to deal with corporate strategies?
22:15 minute - Would you also do seminars on content silos in Europe?
22:55 minute - IA in Europe - what would your advice be for bigger corporations?
26:23 minute - IA in Healthcare: Where’s the benefit for the healthcare sector?
32:25 minute - Considering target audiences in healthcare - ?
34:02 minute - Should corporations increase implementations of IA processes?
35:00 minute - Focus a little more allso on the I instead of only on the T?
36:35 minute - IA Trends - where is IA heading worldwide?

Further Information on Louis Rosenfeld

• Author of the Polarbear Book:
• Lou’s Blog: Bloug
• Enterprise IA seminar
• Publishing at: rosenfeldmedia

 

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