Volunteers
Volunteer Spotlight
Who: Andrea Resmini
Company: FatDUX and PhD candidate at the University of Bologna
Title: Information Architect
Most recent IA project: Andrea works on IA and classification issues concerning historical and juridical online databases, F/LOSS CMS and topic maps.
Working on: Journal of Information Architecture, IA Library, IA Research and Education
Learn more about Andrea at: www.andrearesmini.com
Volunteer Opportunities
The IA Institute is a group of multinational of volunteers who supply the ideas, initiative, and energy it takes to provide services to the IA community. Join that effort by taking on a volunteer role today. Below are general volunteer opportunities. For opportunities specific to current projects,visit our new Volunteer Wiki.
The Institute can provide assistance for volunteer initiatives with expert review, infrastructure, and, in some cases, financial assistance. Please contact us at volunteer @iainstitute.org if you are interested in learning more about any of our projects or have you an idea of how you can help.
On-Going Volunteer Projects and Initiatives
Accessibility Producer
Calendar/news editor
Grant Researcher/Writer
Library contributors
List archivist
Local Groups Leaders
Mentoring Program Manager
Mentoring Program Coordinator
Mentoring Program Website/Database Developer
Mentoring Resource Manager
Photographers, Amateur and Otherwise
Resource Editors/Content Designers/Graphic Designers
Website Developers
Translations Team Members
New Initiative Leaders
We are seeking volunteers to help improve accessibilty for users with disabilities. At the IDEA Conference, A stands for "Accessibility". Our goal is to ensure that all members of our community can experience and learn from podcasts and other audio/video content. We have added an Accessibility team to our Translations Initiative. We currently require a volunteer to research and/or produce video transcription for our IDEA Conference video podcasts. Requirements include an understanding of video accessibility issues for the hearing impaired. Solutions can include either doing the actual transcription yourself or researching organizations that might donate transcription services. Additional volunteers who are interested in accessibility are encouraged to participate in improving the accessibility of our web content. To help, contact tia@iainstitute.org.
Posts sponsor and local group events and news items.
If you have experience researching non-profit grants and would like to help the Institute research grant opportunities and approach and work with funding resources to support our infrastructure development and member initiatives, please contact us at volunteer@iainstitute.org.
Find and post 2-4 entries per week to our library database (need to develop criteria, would work with board members Shari Thurow and Dan Klyn)
Catalog important threads on iai-members both as a community resource (classic threads on what is IA, books to read, getting a job) and as resource for board strategy (eg. Maturing a Practice, Damned 40 Dollars)
- Be a Local Leader — Local Group leaders needed to organize local IAI groups, including local summits, presentations, cocktail hours, etc. This is an ongoing commitment of a few hours a month to organize and attend meetings of your group's choice.
- Mentoring Program Manager: The leader of the mentoring program will manage a volunteer team to administer and develop improvements to the current mentoring system to ensure fruitful and timely communication among participants.
- Mentoring Program Coordinator: Along with the project manager, you will review new registrations, suggest potential mentor matches and make introductions where necessary. You will provide monthly updates to members on mentor availability and new program features. This position requires some experience with mentoring, since often our protégé applicants need assistance in developing goals and approaching mentor candidates.
- Mentoring Program Website/Database Developer: You will work with the IA Institute technology team to develop requirements/recommendations for integrating mentoring system functionality into the new member database system (Drupal based) we are investigating to replace our current system.
- Mentoring Resource Manager: We would like to create a set of downloadable documents that mentors, proteges and group leaders can use as resources and to create local programs. We need an editor and graphic designers to work with the mentoring team to develop these materials. Contact mentoring@iainstitute.org if you are interested in helping out.
- The IA is IN: Our mentoring twitter account, [[http://twitter.com/iaisin|@IAisIN]], is our communication channel for the mentoring program. "IAisIN" is a reference to our Charles Schultz-inspired yellow mentoring booth hosted every year at the IA Summit. We are seeking volunteers to serve as guest mentors on @IAisIN for short periods on a scheduled basis.
Interested? Contact mentoring@iainstitute.org.
Photographers, Amateur and Otherwise
The IA Institute is about people meeting people, informally and at planned events. If you have any photos from IA Institute related activities, send them to us at operations @iainstitute.org
Resource Editors/Content Designers/Graphic Designers
We are creating resource packages for new members, mentors/mentees, students, job seekers, volunteers, researchers, press, etc. based on our IA Networking Guide. Each package would be a collection of how tos and important resources for each audience.
If you have a knack for analysing and illustrating user processes and scenarios, let us know. Wolf Nöding's Networking Guide 
is a fantastic illustration of how IA pros meet and interact through the IA Institute. We would love to incorporate similar diagrams outlining how to get or become a mentor, how to create a local group and how to apply for a grant.
Join a language team! Teams need assistance with translation, navigation, and moving translated content into the new website framework. If you aren't able to translate the words but have html/css knowledge, you can still make a great contribution to the web development. Many sites are translated and ready to go, we only need a few of your hours to bring them to the public.
If you don't see your language or if your language site seems to be a bit low on content, we'd love to have your help! We have a list of articles waiting to be translated from English to your language. In fact, we would love to find out what is going on in your area and provide details to our members in your language. If you have news, events or articles you would like to submit, we can add them to your language site. We can also add articles translated to English to bring thought leadership to a wider audience.
IAI is looking for volunteers with php skills and/or experience with MovableType to help publish some exciting new language sites, content, and pages. Join the website team and get a chance to help a great global project launch on the web.
We are looking for experienced IA practitioners to lead a number of ongoing projects, primarily re-imagining the presentation of our online resources: IA Library and Tools, IA Courses and Degree Program listing, IA Network listings. Some suggestions for future projects have included improvements to the IA Directory map, developing a "Mentoring Marketplace," reviving various IA Industry Surveys, etc.
If there is a topic or tool that you would like to develop for our members, send your suggestion to us at volunteer@iainstitute.org.
If you don't have time to volunteer right now but know of tools and resources that our members may benefit from, please let us know:
- The IA Library is a repository of information about Articles and Papers, Blogs, Columns and Journals, Books, Organizations, Conferences and Mailing lists, Presentations and Web Sites and Resources. Submit library resources here.
- IA Tools include document templates, process map posters and other tools to help you in your practice. Submit your tools to iatools @iainstitute.org.
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