March, 2011

Minutes for March 21, 2011

March 21st, 2011

Board of Directors Meeting
The Information Architecture Institute
Monday, March 21, 2011
10pm CEST, 9pm GMT, 4pm ET, 3pm CST, 1pm PST

Attendees:
Board: Dan Klyn, Shari Thurow, Dorian Taylor, Andrea Resmini
Staff: Noreen Whyse, Tim Bruns

IAS numbers higher than last year. Looks good for attendance.

ESS New York Hilton May 10 – Shari and Noreen to attend (board approves). Shari will write up the event.

SES New York Hilton March 21 – Shari did sold out IA session. Tomorrow also speaking on IA and Search.

Shari’s article on Search Engine Land, Dan contributed with Lou and Peter.
http://searchengineland.com/3-seo-myths-about-information-architecture-68405

Zocalo Public Square: Can there really be TMI?
http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/03/15/can-there-really-be-tmi/read/chats/
Andrea in company with David Weinberger and Jakob Neilson. Good publicity for his book (MorganKaufman) Shari will write a book review if Andrea can get her a copy. Andrea hasn’t received them yet, but will send five to Denver.

Annual reports: publish after members meeting (board approved). To approve 2009 and 2010 reports on next Monday’s meeting.

Postcard and PPT template: approved. Dorian will print the cards.

Meeting adjourned at 4:30pm.

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Minutes for March 14, 2011

March 14th, 2011

Meeting canceled due to lack of quorum.

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Minutes for March 7, 2011

March 14th, 2011

Board of Directors Meeting
The Information Architecture Institute
Monday, March 7, 2011
10pm CEST, 9pm GMT, 4pm ET, 3pm CST, 1pm PST

Attendees:
Board: Dan Klyn, Shari Thurow, Dorian Taylor, Andrea Resmini
Staff: Noreen Whyse, Tim Bruns

* Annual Members Meeting

-Dorian has completed t-shirt and willl complete the post-card designs this week. Board needs to approve both by Sunday March 13th, 2011 by noon local time British Columbia.  
-Dan will be taking post-card requests to printer in Denver.
-Noreen will send out update RSVP with date change to Thursday and post the AGM announcement to Calendar and home page feature.
* Committee Members for IDEA and Library
- IDEA conference and Library requires a board position.  Shari will be leading the Library position.  Abby Covert will be volunteering her time to lead the IDEA Conference and we will be holding an election in the Fall for this position, officially.
* Event Sponsorship
-We have approved all three conferences for the IAI for sponsorship  Italian, Polish, and German conferences. Dan will start to look at the slides and what we want to promote at these conferences.  $1000 for each of these conferences was voted on and agreed to by the Board during this call.
- Noreen is waiting on the discount code for the Enterprise Search Summit prior to promoting. She will Follow up with Enterprise Search Summit and VIEW Conference and post/announce when contracts are finalized.
* IA Summit Logistics
-When are we arriving for the Summit?
Dorian – Wednesday
Dan – Wednesday
Noreen – Wednesday
Andrea – Saturday
Jeff – Tuesday
Tim – Thursday (tentative) 
-Thursday AGM then Karaoke at the same venue for the IA Summit.
-Board members will be meeting at noon in the conference hotel lobby to discuss the AGM in advance of the meeting.
* General Administrative Tasks
-Noreen will post mentoring brochure and IA Institute onesheet to basecamp
-Noreen will draft the March newsletter and will name a guest director to craft the intro.

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