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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Stig Anders - Information Architect from Denmark

Stig Anders is a well known Information Architect and active in the IA Society since a long time. It’s always interesting to hear form his european point of view, how he think’s the profession of IA is developing. On the other hand as an IA consultant he has convincing thoughts about communicating the value of IA to his clients. At the beginning of our talk he told me how he grew into the this exiting business and also gave me his answers on the next trends of IA. Let’s hear this interview with Stig Anders…

Podcast of this Interview - 31:02 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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Interview with Peter Morville - IA Author and one father of IA

Enjoy this upcoming interview with Peter Morville. Peter is one Father of IA, Author of the books “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web” and “Ambient Findability”, and President of Semantic Studios.
I was very happy that he gave me this interview for all our listeners since it contains some very forward thinking answers. - Here they are…

Podcast of this Interview - 28:14 minutes

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Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)

00:52 minute - Peter, your main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:55 minute - How about People saying you are the father of IA?
03:03 minute - Something specific that attracts you to this field?
04:23 minute - How do you define IA for yourself?
06:36 minute - How to sell IA to a potential client?
08:17 minute - …are you also acting then as a consultant?
09:10 minute - How important is bottom-up information architecture?
10:18 minute - How to communicate the importance of controlled vocabularies..?
11:35 minute - What to tell companies…to create semantic networks?
14:38 minute - What would you tell a client that doesn’t understand tagging?
17:10 minute - IA in US and Europe?
18:57 minute - How can the Europeans can catch up with the US?
19:38 minute - IA - where’s the benefit for the healthcare sector?
21:29 minute - Can IA help to take differences in Healthcare markets…?
23:00 minute - IA in Healthcare Knowledge Management Applications?
24:30 minute - Should corporations increase the implementations of IA processes?
25:53 minute - In your opinion, where is IA heading?

Further Information on Peter Morville

• Peter’s Blog
• Book 01: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
• Book 02: Ambient Findability

 

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