Minutes

IA Institute Board Conference Call – NO QUORUM
May 16, 2011

Attendees
Board: Dorian Taylor, Shari Thurow
Other: Tim Bruns, Noreen Whysel

Meeting convened at 4:15pm EST.

Summary: There being no quorum, attendees instead chatted about positive experience at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York, where former IA Institute president, Eric Reiss, and IA Institute founder, Thomas Van der Wal, each had a keynote, setting the tone for the role of information architecture in enterprise search. See our news archives for articles from Noreen Whysel and Shari Thurow on the ESS experience.  No decisions were made.

Agenda:

Administrative Matters:

• Melissa Weaver asked us to confirm that she is no longer listed as Administrative contact for our MemberClicks account.
• Noreen and Dorian discussed errors on Wordpress 2006 IDEA blog. He was not able to access it. Noreen gave him some pointers and names.
• Noreen noted that Melissa has requested we tweet about an upcoming ASIS&T webinar.  Noreen will post a request for a vote in a separate message.

Enterprise Search Summit:

Noreen and Shari reported on the ESS:

• Avi Rappoport challenged Google for using terms “facet” when they mean “filter.”
• Shari will try to get a quote from her on that.  Shari thought Eric’s keynote on the Dumbing Down of Intelligent Search was the best presentation.  Very informative.
• Google does accommodate searcher behavior, but could be better. Enterprise search site search engine particularly dumbed down. Shari will write about that.
• Takeaways: Sharepoint stuff may not be of help to our group. Shari thought the NASA woman shouldn’t be invited back – boring, required a very strict controlled vocabulary, versus Citigroup’s system which allows user input hashtags and a clever system for referencing the tags by the person’s group id to assist in findability.

Adjourned at 4:46pm EST

IA Institute Board Conference Call
May 9, 2011

Attendees:
Board: Dorian Taylor, Andrea Resmini, Jeff Parks, Dan Klyn
Staff: Noreen Whysel, Tim Bruns
Absent: Shari Thurow 

Meeting called to order at 4:00pm.

Agenda:

Administrative matters to discuss

Noreen noted there was an inquiry about the term “architect” from an angry email to info account. This is a perennial complaint.  A recent Archinect website thread contained thoughtful comments from registered architects. Wurman has language on what he means by “architect”. Generally our response is to point out that the law in most cases regulates the use of the term Architect by those who offer building architecture services. However the law may vary in each jurisdiction, so it is prudent to check.

Action: Dan will follow up with our lawyer. 

Setting milestones and responsibilities for board members / volunteers as necessary 

Website:

Dorian: Scraped web pages and content components.  Plotting relationship between all pages and solution for repeat components.

Andrea: need to fix a few things in the library before we can go to Drupal. 

IDEA:

Need content and plan and schedule IA, software, code.

Jeff raised the need for a lead PR person.  Andrea can continue to post messages as president but we need someone to draft PR items. 

Keep idea of trying seed the event all over the world and find people who can do local talks.

Action: Dan will ask Abby to join next week’s conference call.

Action: Andrea will contact a friend who is a graphic novelist, optioned for a movie. He does workshops to teach storytelling and cartooning. Could be a prospective IDEA speaker. Andrea thinks he is in France. 

IA Summit:

Andrea will talk to Dick and will report to board if there is any news. 

Mentor/Apprentice:

Jeff has been mapping it out.

Dorian doing personas for the website. Starting with who would be an IAI volunteer. Plans to deliver this week.

Request for sponsorships:

Content Strategy Forum 2011. Look for an announcement.

Italian IA Summit: good, positive feedback; mentioned IAI a number of times, Andrea was introduced as president of IAI.  Davide spoke about the Translation initiative.

Meeting adjourned at 4:41pm