Category Archives: Personal

IA Institute Board Elections — I’m Running

Update, 9/20/2011: Wow, I’m so honored to say, I was selected! Here are the details. Original post: I’m really excited about some of the changes and updates going on with the IA Institute, one of the professional organizations supporting the information architecture discipline. And so when they made the call for nominations for the board [...]

Kicking off the NAMA board year

I joined the board of the local chapter of the American Marketing Association last year, and I’m about to start my term as the chair of the Shared Interest Group [SIG] program for NAMA. We’re working on nonprofit, health care and digital media SIGs for the 10-11 year, and we’re focusing on providing real value [...]

Why I still go to SXSW

I’ve been to South by Southwest Interactive more than any other work-related conference. In fact, in the past few years, I’ve only missed it because of the arrival of my two youngest children just before and just after the dates of the conference. Someone asked me the other day why I go. The reason is [...]

A big, urgent question

A great post today from Mark Hurst’s blog: Are we doing what we love?