Hi Andrew

I won't be able to make it this week due to work commitments, but look
forward to the next one :)

Tammy

On 10/11/07, Andrew Boyd <facibus@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Thursday 18 October 2007.
>
> Ruth Ellison from DIMA will present on Accessibility. Accessibility is
> often one of the last things to be considered when developing a
> system. This can happen for many reasons, including the organisational
> context and general misconceptions about accessibility. We will be
> looking at a case study of the challenges and learnings of
> implementing accessibility in a Government organisation.
>
> Time: 17:30-19:00
> Day/Date: Thursday 18 October 2007
> Venue: SMS Management & Technology
> Ground Floor, 8 Brindabella Circuit
> CANBERRA AIRPORT ACT
>
> Please RSVP as soon as possible for catering purposes.
>
> Parking: please remember that Brindabella Park has different parking
> arrangements than those found in many parts of Canberra - there is
> free parking for the first hour adjacent to the entrance of 8
> Brindabella Circuit. After that you have to move your car or pay for
> parking (and this applies past the end of the meeting).
>
> PS: there is a contact list for the Canberra IA Cocktail Hours: you
> can join via http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/canberra_ia_community or
> subscribe to updates to the Canberra IA Community Blog via
> http://iacanberra.org
>
> Best regards, Andrew Boyd
>
>
> --
> ---
> Andrew Boyd
> http://facibusreviews.com/blog
>

Hi all,

The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Thursday 18 October 2007.

Ruth Ellison from DIMA will present on Accessibility. Accessibility is
often one of the last things to be considered when developing a
system. This can happen for many reasons, including the organisational
context and general misconceptions about accessibility. We will be
looking at a case study of the challenges and learnings of
implementing accessibility in a Government organisation.

Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 18 October 2007
Venue: SMS Management & Technology
Ground Floor, 8 Brindabella Circuit
CANBERRA AIRPORT ACT

Please RSVP as soon as possible for catering purposes.

Parking: please remember that Brindabella Park has different parking
arrangements than those found in many parts of Canberra - there is
free parking for the first hour adjacent to the entrance of 8
Brindabella Circuit. After that you have to move your car or pay for
parking (and this applies past the end of the meeting).

PS: there is a contact list for the Canberra IA Cocktail Hours: you
can join via http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/canberra_ia_community or
subscribe to updates to the Canberra IA Community Blog via
http://iacanberra.org

Best regards, Andrew Boyd


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Added to Upcoming for those that use it - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/
event/266968

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Hi Folks,

as discussed at the 30 August meeting, we're revamping the
iacanberra.org blog - there is a report on the last meeting
(containing future directions for the group) at:
http://iacanberra.org/2007/09/03/canberra-ia-cocktail-hour-30-august-2007/

You can subscribe to the blog at http://iacanberra.org/wp-admin/ -
eventually there will be some newsletter software attached to the blog
such that it can replace this mailing list.

Thanks, Andrew

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Freebasing with Donna it is :) We'll fit this into the other speaker(s).

Best regards, Andrew


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business through Consulting, People and Technology

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From: canberra_ia_community@...
[mailto:canberra_ia_community@...] On Behalf Of Donna Maurer
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To: canberra_ia_community@...
Subject: Re: [canberra_ia_community] Canberra IA Cocktail Hour:August 2007

If we have time, I'd like to demo freebase. It is like wikipedia with
semantics...

Andrew Boyd wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is proposed for next Thursday
> evening (30 August 2007) - it was supposed to be this evening, but
> time got away from me this month. I'm chasing down a couple of
> speakers at the moment - if there is a topic that you would like to
> present, or to see, please let me know.
>




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If we have time, I'd like to demo freebase. It is like wikipedia with
semantics...

Andrew Boyd wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
>
> The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is proposed for next Thursday
> evening (30 August 2007) – it was supposed to be this evening, but
> time got away from me this month. I’m chasing down a couple of
> speakers at the moment – if there is a topic that you would like to
> present, or to see, please let me know.
>

Hi folks,

the next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Thursday 19 July 2007.

There are two topics planned:
- The ACT Government is considering its online presence; Kerry Webb
will discuss some of the possible improvements and how they may affect
the user community.
- Stephen Hall is hosting a discussion on the use of tablet PCs in IA work

We follow a meet'n'greet/presentation/chat format, with the emphasis
on information exchange at practitioner level. This is a great
opportunity to talk with other IAs in Canberra, have a few drinks, and
chat about work.

Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 19 July 2007
Venue: SMS Management & Technology
Ground Floor, 8 Brindabella Circuit
CANBERRA AIRPORT ACT

Parking: please note that Brindabella Park has different parking
arrangements than those found in many parts of Canberra - there is
free parking for the first hour adjacent to the entrance of 8
Brindabella Circuit. After that you have to move your car or pay for
parking (and this applies past the end of the meeting).

PS: there is a contact list for the Canberra IA Cocktail Hours: you
can join via http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/canberra_ia_community

Best regards, Andrew Boyd

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Andrew asked:
>
Hi folks,

did anyone notice when http://www.abc.net.au/news/ changed? Thoughts?
I like it a lot - it seems more "bloggy", and perhaps that is just
what I am used to now.
>


We're all different.

I liked the previous design that allowed an easy scan of news items in
all topics on the one screen.

Kerry

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On Tue Jul  3  9:46 , 'Andrew Boyd' <facibus@...> sent:

> did anyone notice when http://www.abc.net.au/news/ changed? Thoughts?
> I like it a lot - it seems more "bloggy", and perhaps that is just
> what I am used to now.

Not until you told me.  But I only read ABC by RSS anyway.

That said, I agree.  It's very nice.

My take is that the ABC is one of the few government agencies
(technically it
still is) that truly understands the web and new media generally -
blogs, Second
Life, feeds, encouraging client (audience) feedback.  It's like
social computing
heaven.  I'd love to see their metrics on staff and audience engagement
satisfaction, retention and knowledge management/collaboration.  I'd
hazard a
guess that they show good news.

Many federal government bodies in Australia (and probably state, too)
would do
well to look at appropriate parts of the ABC's social computing/
engagement model
and adopt.  Real soon now.  Otherwise you just get more of what I
blogged last
week - http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/06/28/roadblocks-and-steamrollers/.

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Hi folks,

did anyone notice when http://www.abc.net.au/news/ changed? Thoughts?
I like it a lot - it seems more "bloggy", and perhaps that is just
what I am used to now.

Cheers, Andrew

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Just a reminder - Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on this evening -
details attached.

Cheers, Andrew

On 6/18/07, Andrew Boyd <facibus@...> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> the next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Thursday 21 June 2007.
>
> There are a few discussion topics planned - to be presented by Donna Maurer:
> - the Intuitect prototyping tool
> - the IA of 3D using Second Life as an example
> - a new card sorting tool
>
> We follow a meet'n'greet/presentation/chat format, with the emphasis
> on information exchange at practitioner level. This is a great
> opportunity to talk with other IAs in Canberra, have a few drinks, and
> chat about work.
>
> Time: 17:30-19:00
> Day/Date: Thursday 21 June 2007
> Venue: SMS Management & Technology
> Ground Floor, 8 Brindabella Circuit
> CANBERRA AIRPORT ACT
>
> Parking: please note that Brindabella Park has different parking
> arrangements than those found in many parts of Canberra - there is
> free parking for the first hour adjacent to the entrance of 8
> Brindabella Circuit. After that you have to move your car or pay for
> parking (and this applies past the end of the meeting).
>
> PS: there is a contact list for the Canberra IA Cocktail Hours: you
> can join via http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/canberra_ia_community
>
> Best regards, Andrew Boyd
>
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Hi folks,

the next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Thursday 21 June 2007.

There are a few discussion topics planned - to be presented by Donna Maurer:
- the Intuitect prototyping tool
- the IA of 3D using Second Life as an example
- a new card sorting tool

We follow a meet'n'greet/presentation/chat format, with the emphasis
on information exchange at practitioner level. This is a great
opportunity to talk with other IAs in Canberra, have a few drinks, and
chat about work.

Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 21 June 2007
Venue: SMS Management & Technology
Ground Floor, 8 Brindabella Circuit
CANBERRA AIRPORT ACT

Parking: please note that Brindabella Park has different parking
arrangements than those found in many parts of Canberra - there is
free parking for the first hour adjacent to the entrance of 8
Brindabella Circuit. After that you have to move your car or pay for
parking (and this applies past the end of the meeting).

PS: there is a contact list for the Canberra IA Cocktail Hours: you
can join via http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/canberra_ia_community

Best regards, Andrew Boyd

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Folks,

as discussed previously, next IA Cocktail Hour will be Thursday 21
June at the SMS office, 8 Brindabella Park, Canberra Airport,
17:30-19:00.

Speaker/topic TBC - awaiting confirmation.

Best regards, Andrew

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Works for me!

Andrew Boyd wrote:
>
> OK... I've had a suggestion that we should settle on one day and hold
> it that one day every month - this works for me - suggest 3rd Thursday
> so as not to compete with the SMS branch meetings (2nd Thursday).
>
>

Hi all,

I'm juggling work, home and afterwork commitments with those of other
people and it looks like there is an exploitable hole in time and
space for Thursday 14 June for the next IA cocktail hour.

If you can't make it, and really want to, please let me know.

PS: I've registered iacanberra.org and will get some kind of
blog/events list/presentation references list up shortly - it will
probably go onto linux hosting so that we can more easily do something
like http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/canberra.cfm - does anyone
have any suggestions? We could stick with the blog format (currently
unavailable - another story) or go to something a little more
involved.

Cheers, Andrew

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Hi folks,

the next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on tonight - Thursday 24 May 2007.

There are a few discussion topics planned:
- Steve Collins has some planned Knowledge Worker 2.0 presentations
that he will outline
- Matthew Hodgson's "Grand Unified Theory of the evolution of
information in taxonomic hierarchies" will be presented in a bit more
detail
- While he is there, we are hoping to get Matthew Hodgson to update us
on his Semantic Analysis project at Health and Ageing.

We follow a meet'n'greet/presentation/chat format, with the emphasis
on information exchange at practitioner level. This is a great
opportunity to talk with other IAs in Canberra, have a few drinks, and
chat about work.

Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 24 May 2007
Venue: SMS Management & Technology
Ground Floor, 8 Brindabella Circuit
CANBERRA AIRPORT ACT

Parking: please note that Brindabella Park has different parking
arrangements than those found in many parts of Canberra - there is
free parking for the first hour adjacent to the entrance of 8
Brindabella Circuit. After that you have to move your car or pay for
parking (and this applies past the end of the meeting).

PS: there is a contact list for the Canberra IA Cocktail Hours: you
can join via http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/canberra_ia_community

Best regards, Andrew Boyd


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Hi Folks,

attached is an email from Eric in Sydney announcing Web Directions
(and concurrently, he has announced that OZ-IA 2007 will be on 22-23
September 2007).

Cheers, Andrew
________________________________________
From: IA-Sydney@...
[IA-Sydney@...] On Behalf Of Eric Scheid
[eric@...]
Sent: Monday, 21 May 2007 12:25 PM
To: Sydney IA-Peers
Subject: [IA-Syd] FW: Announcing Web Directions South 2007

FYI

and BTW, Oz-IA/2007 will be on the weekend prior :-)

e.

------ Forwarded Message
From: "Maxine Sherrin" <maxine@...>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:23:16 +1000
Subject: Announcing Web Directions South 2007

Hi,

Please come on in, have a look around, and check out the program and
speakers we've lined up for Web Directions South, our web design and
development conference, to be held in Sydney this September 25-28 2007.

http://www.webdirections.org/

With more than 30 leading experts, including a dozen international stars of
the web industry, across three tracks, Web Directions South will focus on
the key technology and business issues of the web in 2007. It really is
Australia's premier event for the web industry. Speakers for 2007 include

* Andy Clarke - Transcendent CSS
* Aaron Gustafson - Javascript and Ajax
* Brian Fling - designing for the mobile web
* George Oates - user experience design for communities
* Bert Bos - co-creator of CSS on the future of Web Standards
* Rashmi Sinha - online communities
* Adrian Holovaty - making data smart
* Mark Pesce - commons based peer production

plus many more new and old faces to educate and inspire us all once again
this September.

http://www.webdirections.org/program/speakers/

This year at Web Directions South alongside our traditional Design and
Development focus, there's a new Management/Strategy track. So, if you
design or develop for the web, manage web teams, or if your business relies
on the web, we've got two full days full for you.

As always, Web Directions South remains excellent value: register before
June 30 to see this amazing line up for just $795.

We've also got 6 workshops over the two days before Web Directions South:

* Brian Fling - Designing for the mobile web
* Aaron Gustafson - Progressive enhancement with Javascript
* Andy Clarke - Transcending CSS
* Laurel Papworth - Building vibrant and successful online communities
* Startup and freelance bootcamp. Every thing you need to know about going
out on your own as a freelancer or startup company.
* World Wide Web Consortium SIG technology day - W3C experts covering the
latest developments in web standards

http://www.webdirections.org/program/workshops/

Again, excellent value at just $395 with a conference ticket.

This year, in yet another first, we'll be featuring the Web Expo - running
throughout the conference at Darling Harbour.

http://www.webdirections.org/sponsor/expo/

And perhaps most exciting of all, we'll be hosting Australia's first Web
Hack day, on the Saturday following the conference.

http://www.webdirections.org/program/web-hack/

And of course there'll be all the usual parties and opportunities to catch
up with old friends, and make new connections.

We are really excited with the quality and range of speakers we've been able
to get all the way to Sydney, the great new venue at Darling Harbour, with
the new Expo, the extended range of workshops, and WebHack, and hope you'll
be too. We look forward to seeing you in Sydney at the end of September for
what promises to be one of the stand out web events anywhere in the World -
Web Directions South 2007.

Maxine and John
www.webdirections.org
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All

I've added the meeting to Upcoming at
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/192002.  Let's see if doing so works
in terms of acceptances and coordination...

Even though Yahoo own both this group and Upcoming, the two
applications don't yet play nice.

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My apologies for the confusion - that should read Thursday 24 May 2007.

Best regards, Andrew

On 5/16/07, Andrew Boyd <facibus@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Thursday 23 May 2007.
>
> There are a few discussion topics planned:
> - Steve Collins has some planned Knowledge Worker 2.0 presentations
> that he will outline
> - Matthew Hodgson's "Grand Unified Theory of the evolution of
> information in taxonomic hierarchies" will be presented in a bit more
> detail
> - While he is there, we are hoping to get Matthew Hodgson to update us
> on his Semantic Analysis project at Healthe and Ageing.
>
> We follow a meet'n'greet/presentation/chat format, with the emphasis
> on information exchange at practitioner level. This is a great
> opportunity to talk with other IAs in Canberra, have a few drinks, and
> chat about work.
>
> Time: 17:30-19:00
> Day/Date: Thursday 23 May 2007
> Venue: SMS Management & Technology
> Ground Floor, 8 Brindabella Circuit
> CANBERRA AIRPORT ACT
>
> Parking: please note that Brindabella Park has different parking
> arrangements than those found in many parts of Canberra - there is
> free parking for the first hour adjacent to the entrance of 8
> Brindabella Circuit. After that you have to move your car or pay for
> parking (and this applies past the end of the meeting).
>
> PS: there is a contact list for the Canberra IA Cocktail Hours: you
> can join via http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/canberra_ia_community
>
> Best regards, Andrew Boyd
>
>
>
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Hi all,

the next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Thursday 23 May 2007.

There are a few discussion topics planned:
- Steve Collins has some planned Knowledge Worker 2.0 presentations
that he will outline
- Matthew Hodgson's "Grand Unified Theory of the evolution of
information in taxonomic hierarchies" will be presented in a bit more
detail
- While he is there, we are hoping to get Matthew Hodgson to update us
on his Semantic Analysis project at Healthe and Ageing.

We follow a meet'n'greet/presentation/chat format, with the emphasis
on information exchange at practitioner level. This is a great
opportunity to talk with other IAs in Canberra, have a few drinks, and
chat about work.

Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 23 May 2007
Venue: SMS Management & Technology
Ground Floor, 8 Brindabella Circuit
CANBERRA AIRPORT ACT

Parking: please note that Brindabella Park has different parking
arrangements than those found in many parts of Canberra - there is
free parking for the first hour adjacent to the entrance of 8
Brindabella Circuit. After that you have to move your car or pay for
parking (and this applies past the end of the meeting).

PS: there is a contact list for the Canberra IA Cocktail Hours: you
can join via http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/canberra_ia_community

Best regards, Andrew Boyd



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Hi folks,

forwarding this message from Donna.

Cheers, Andrew

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        CHISIG meeting - 29 May - CSIRO tele-health prototype
Date:   Mon, 14 May 2007 11:50:24 +1000
From:   Donna Maurer <donna@...>
To:     chisigcbr@yahoogroups.com



Hi there

After a long delay, Canberra CHISIG is getting re-started. Duncan
Stevenson is the new co-ordinator and has arranged a very interesting demo:

"The CSIRO ICT Centre Immersive Environments Team will present a
research prototype broadband tele-health system and will demonstrate it
linking two sites – one in Canberra and the other in Sydney".

The meeting will be at the Computer Science and Information Technology
Building (building 108), North Road, Australian National University.
Starts at 5.30pm.

More details in the attached flyer.

*Please pass on *to anyone who may be interested in this session, or in
usability, HCI, user-centred design generally!

Donna


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Hi Folks,

for those who were not aware: May is information awareness month.
Makes me wonder what I was doing for the first week and a half of it
:)

Anyhow, there is a do on a bit later in the month - see
http://informationawarenessmonth.com.au/event/index.cfm?ID=77

Cheers, Andrew

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