Date & Time:
May 19, 2008
1:00PM - 4:00PM

Description:
Not sure how to increase your website sales? Don’t miss a one-on-one critique with a seasoned professional who will sit down with you for 20 minutes of undivided attention and critique your website. Critiques will offer ideas and techniques to improve your website design and show you how to sell more.

Critiquers include:
Dayna Bateman, Senior Strategic Analyst, Fry, Inc.
John Deneen, President, SiteForm, Inc.
Bob Hale, Senior Usability Specialist, Resource Interactive
Jackie Methling, E-commerce Sales Strategist, Americaneagle.com
Teresa Rauschendorfer, Art Director, James Tower Email Marketing & Design
Jennifer Wells, Director, New Site Development, DMinSite

Registration and Location Information:
http://accmshow.com/ACCM2008/public/SessionDetails.aspx?SessionID=1043

The First Annual ASIS&T Social Computing Summit will bring together researchers and practitioners of social computing for two days of discussion and exploration in Miami, Florida. The event will directly precede the 2008 Information Architecture Summit, providing attendees a complimentary opportunity to learn about and discuss emergent areas of social computing and software. The Social Computing Summit will feature a keynote addresses from Dr. Nancy Baym, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas, and Thomas Vander Wal, principal consultant at InfoCloud Solutions.

Social software and computing drives Web 2.0 technology, enabling global connections and providing rich social experiences. Social networking services challenge established notions of privacy, identity and relationship management. Beyond the browser, mobile devices promise new forms of ubiquitous connectivity and presence, offering unprecedented research and business opportunities. To understand the successful applications of tomorrow, we come together today to share research and insight. This summit aims to bring together thought leaders, developers, and scholars working in this rapidly changing area, facilitating the conversations required for tomorrow’s innovations.

Complementing the keynote addresses will be panels exploring the following topical areas: Social networking services, data portability/open social networks, mobile services, social computing and politics, global voices, social computing and the enterprise, and youth social computing. The summit will feature interactive sessions, as well as a poster session for sharing information about services and recent research. In bringing together a blend of experts from different disciplines, as well as enabling conversation, the ASIS&T Social Computing Summit offers something for everyone interested in this fascinating, fast-changing space.

Internet Retailer’s newest conference, Internet Retailer Web Design ‘08 Conference, will provide e-retailers with detailed information on the proven practices, hottest trends and latest technologies in retail web site design. Some of the items in the program about user experience:

• Keynote by Debbie Kristofferson, Vice President, User Experience, Walmart.com
• Design and Usability Consultations: one-on-one, half-hour consultations on the design, navigation, organization and usability of attendee retail web sites
• Making web sites accessible to people with disabilities
• The role of real time data in better site design and usability
• Overcoming obstacles to navigation
• How to get feedback to help with your redesign
• Creating the customer-centered design
• Principles of site design: When to follow the rules, when to break them

All paid attendees will also receive a free copy of the 288-page Internet Retailer Guide to Retail Web Design & Usability.

Aimed at developers and web entrepreneurs, Future of Web Apps (Miami) brings together web visionaries to discuss the technologies, platforms and business models you should be using to launch the next generation of successful web apps.

GROUP ‘07 is about computer-based systems that have an impact on groups, organizations and social networks . It bridges the fields of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Information Systems (IS). GROUP ‘07 will cover the design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and impact of these systems.

The keynote speaker will be Giorgio De Michelis, University of Milano - Bicocca, who will talk about:

Design of Interactive Systems (in frameworks like Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing, Community Systems, etc.) is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative activity where creativity, on one hand, and user experience, on the other hand, play a major role. We will discuss the concepts of object and thing in relation to the design process as a way to understand its complexity and its peculiarity with respect to its distinctive qualities and to the cooperation among designers and between designers and users. Even if it focuses on design of computer based systems, most of what will be said applies also to design in general.

The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for those interested in information architecture.