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Events Calendar

FEATURED EVENT:

User Experience Australia, 25-27 August 2010, Melbourne, Australia
 

The following events offer substantial discounts to IA Institute members:

August 24, 2010
UX Week
San Francisco, CA, USA

August 25, 2010
UX Australia
Melbourne, Australia

August 26, 2010
UIE Seminar: Produce a More Persuasive Site: Where Design & Marketing Meet
90-minute online webinar

September 02, 2010
Sept 16: UIE Virtual Seminar—Organization Schemes with Donna Spencer
90-minute online webinar

September 09, 2010
Netherlands UX Cocktail Hour
Amsterdam, Netherlands

September 24, 2010
EuroIA 2010: Europe's Sixth Information Architecture Summit
Paris, France

October 19, 2010
Follow the UX Leader
Ottawa, Canada
Oct 19: Stop Searching, Start Finding
Oct 20: Creating Web Content That Clicks
Oct 26: People Before Pixels

[more events]



News

September 02, 2010

Call for Participation in Grant Research Study on Social Media

You are invited to participate in a research study comparing tools of Internet communication. This online survey, prepared by 2009... Read more >

August 20, 2010

IA Institute Releases First of Two 2009 IA Progress Grant Studies

The IA Institute is proud to release the first of two studies from our 2009 IA Progress grant program. Neha... Read more >

August 18, 2010

Mike Wilkey

It is with great sadness that the IA Institute mourns the passing of Institute and UX community member Mike Wilkey,... Read more >

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The American Society for Information Science and Technology's Information Architecture SIG is the home of the SIG-IA mailing list and the ASIST Bulletin. The Bulletin's IA Column features guest writers from the field of IA. Visit their site to read the current IA Column.

For details on these and other Member Discounts contact membership [at]iainstitute[dot]org or login to our member center and visit the Member Discounts link.

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2010 Election: Nominations are open for the 2010-2012 IA Institute Board of Directors. Visit our 2010 Election page for information.
 

2010 IDEA Conference

Information: Design, Experience, Access. IDEA 2010 will be held in Philadelphia on 30 September to 2 October. Register today.

Follow us on Twitter at @IDEAinfo to learn how to join the IDEArmy. Podcasts, presentations and speaker interviews from IDEA 2009 are available at Boxes & Arrows.

Journal of Information Architecture

The Journal of Information Architecture is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal whose aim is to facilitate the systematic development of the scientific body of knowledge in the field of information architecture. Spring 2010 Volume 2, Issue 1 is now available.

To learn more about IA, read our Editorial Insert in the January 21, 2008 edition of Fortune Magazine. [download PDF]

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