New York City, NY, USA

Adapting Our Technical Communication Skills to Changing Environments - STC NJ and NYC Metro (NYC, NY, USA)

Learn how to go beyond meeting the objectives for your role. Be successful in a team, and make your team successful. Learn how to build your list of assets.

Barrie Byron, Membership Chair of the Philadelphia Metro STC Chapter will speak about the need to know where you want to go and will teach you how to think of yourself as a brand. Barrie will provide practical advice on learning and building your technical communication infrastructure in a new environment. She will use recent job experience to share how she uses online collaboration tools in global environments, such as extensive collaboration portals. Barrie will also share how to implement no-budget solutions, such as WIKIs and TWIKIs. When we use our technical communication skills in all areas of our lives, we prosper, we adapt, and we add value to our roles.

Carol, President of the New Jersey Chapter will teach us to think like the CEO or other top leaders think. Learn how to describe and quantify what you bring to the company: “Is what you produce worth the $$ I spend on them?” Learn to measure and describe the return on investment (ROI) for a competent and experienced technical communicator. Learn how departments decide to add or keep technical communication team members. Carol will discuss scoping projects, using careful timekeeping, and estimating resource needs to prove your worth and stay employed.
Barrie and Carol will both speak about working with global teams, working remotely, and bridging communication gaps with traditional and online collaboration tools.

Location
The Clubhouse at Beacon Hill at Vanderhaven Farms
4300 Winder Drive
Bridgewater, NJ 08807

Cost
Member $10
Nonmember $15
Meeting only $5 (non members)

For more information and to register

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What’s so great about 22, 23 and 24?

Something’s attractive about those dates, with five different events in the NYC metro area from January 22 - 24.

On the 22nd

NYC CHI focuses on mobile entertainment with Portable Fun and the challenges of fitting all that interaction onto different platforms

On the 23rd

NYC UPA presents a case study on the development of a global site for technology leaders. R/GA and Sachs Insights are sharing their lessons learned on the Nokia Nseries Website Development

Across the river, UsabilityNJ and HumanCentric’s Gavin Lew take a look at the iPhone and “Deconstructing Elements of the iPhone’s Interface Through Usability”

On the 24th

STC NYCMetro brings Bill Gribbons down from Bentley College to share his insights on “The Total User Experience: The Road Ahead” with a view of how the emergence of the experience economy has created opportunities in many industries.

IxDA weighs in with a panel on Sustainable Interactions, and a chance to look at how interaction designers can practice in a more sustainable and socially conscious way.

Phones, futures, fun and jobs. Who could ask for more?

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Nokia Nseries Website Development - NYC UPA (NYC, NY, USA)

NYC UPA presents Global Research Case Study — Nokia Nseries Website Development

Best practices often recommend global companies create localized country sites to reflect local language and cultural differences. R/GA’s challenge was to develop one global site for the Nseries target of English speaking Technology Leaders. R/GA and Sachs Insights will present their ingoing assumptions, how recruiting and moderating were adapted for individual countries, lessons learned in designing for a global audience, the key insights that led to the new design, and the results to date.

Speakers:

• Chloe Gottlieb, VP, Executive Creative Director, Interaction Design, R/GA
• Nicole Victor, Senior Planner, R/GA
• Judy Oppenheim, Research Director, RGA
• Tammy Sachs, CEO, Sachs Insights

Event Location
JPMorgan Chase, 277 Park Avenue (between 47th & 48th), Room 1701 (17th floor)

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Bill Gribbons - “The Total User Experience: The Road Ahead” - STC NYCMetro (NYC, NY, USA)

The January meeting of the STC NY Metro chapter will feature Dr. Bill Gribbons, speaking on “The Total User Experience: The Road Ahead.”

Dr. Gribbons, Director of the Human Factors and Information Design programs at Bentley College, will highlight how the emergence of the experience economy has opened exciting opportunities in new sectors such as healthcare, financial services, e-business, gaming, and consumer electronics.

As an expert on the user experience, Bill is frequently quoted in the media, including The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, Cox News Service, Mass High Tech, USA Today, the Associated Press, The Washington Post, Investor Daily, East Bay Business Times, ABC 20-20, Business 2.0, a nationally syndicated radio show (A Touch of Grey), US News and World Report, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Location
Arno’s Restaurant
141 W. 38th St. (at Broadway)
NYC

Registration
Register by Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Online registration or email Donna Timpone at timpone at useredge.com

Cost
STC Member: $10.00, Non-Members: $40.00
Meeting only: Members: free, Non-Members: $5.00

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NYC-CHI: Mobile Entertainment (NYC, NY, USA)

NYC-CHI Meeting: MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT - Portable Fun. Increased expectations for mobility require user experience experts and content providers alike to refocus and optimize the fun to fit on a variety of portable platforms. Join us to learn more about this sizzling subject!

Scott Weiss will be joined John Paris, Director of Mobile Products, Time Inc. Interactive for this presentation.
Location: Time & Life Building at 1271 6th/50th street
(Please be prepared to show ID and allow time for security procedures such as bag scan)

Cost: Free

Registration Information: http://nycchi22jan08.eventbrite.com

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Wireless, Wimax & Mobile 2008 and Beyond (NYC, NY, USA)

A a breakfast and panel discussion featuring leading technology innovators on:

Wireless, Wimax & Mobile 2008 and Beyond: The future of Communications

The panel includes:

• Eric Bader, MediaVest
• Laura Forlano, Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale
  Law School
• Dana Spiegel. Executive Director of NYCWireless
• Ari Zoldan, CEO and Founder of Launch 3 Communications
• Moderator: Sree Sreenivasan, WNBC’s technology reporter

LOCATION:
SobelMedia World Headquarters
4 West 43rd Street/Main Ballroom
New York, NY 10036

Please RSVP to:nymieg@gmail.com

Register at: http://bsobel.googlepages.com/nymiegeventregistration.
Members $30/Non-Members and Guests $50

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Trenton Computer Festival (Trenton, NJ, USA)

TCF-2008, the 33rd Trenton Computer Festival is scheduled for Saturday & Sunday April 26th & 27th, with an affiliated IT Professional Conference on Friday April 25th. All events will be held at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ.

This may not seem like “user experience” territory, but it might be an opportunity to speak to an audience of computer and technology developers about interaction design, usability or any other user experience topic.

Call for proposals:
The focus this year will be on providing “hands on experiences” at TCF. We are looking for talks and tutorial workshop proposals on all forms of digital and information/communications technology (including robotics, computer control of home, environment, etc.), education, podcasting, gaming and digital home entertainment, digital photography, digital wireless technology, networking and VOIP. We are also planning a special speaker track on robotics.

If you have an idea for a talk or workshop/tutorial session for a general audience at the TCF Saturday/Sunday sessions, please fill out the Speaker Application Form at: http://www.tcf-nj.org/spkr_reg.html

If you are interested in presenting at the Friday IT Professional Conference, which focuses on briefings intended for those working in the computer industry, please see http://princetonacm.acm.org/tcfpro/speaker.html and contact David Soll at dsoll at omicron.com.

Proposals must be received by February 3rd. Corporate sponsorship is also invited. For more information contact: Allen Katz, TCF Speaker ProgramChairperson, by email at a.katz at ieee.org

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Usability Week 2008 (New York, NY, USA)

Usability Week 2008 takes you beyond the typical conference experience, offering a 3-day usability camp, a 3-day intensive session on interaction design, and several specialized, day-long tutorials that get both broad and deep on core usability topics. Come for as few or as many days as you want.

Usability Week 2008 New York will be April 7-12. (Other locations: London, San Francisco and Melbourne.)

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Deconstructing Elements of the iPhone’s Interface Through Usability - UsabilityNJ - (Morristown, NJ, USA)

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Time: Social hour starts at 6:30 PM. Presentation starts at 7:00 PM.
Location: Logical Design Solutions, 131 Madison Ave., Morristown, NJ (directions). The meeting will be in the Executive Conference room on the 2nd floor.
More information: UsabilityNJ web site

Join UsabilityNJ and speaker Gavin Lew, Managing Director of UserCentric, for a look at the iPhone interface.

The well-publicized launch of Apple’s iPhone with its multi-touch user interface was the subject of a program of research conducted by User Centric. Many articles were written on the “wow” factor of the iPhone, but almost all reviews were based on opinion or anecdotal references. User Centric’s objective was to assess the iPhone’s usability from a more rigorous user experience research perspective. In short, the goal was to assess performance, satisfaction and usage employing quantitative and qualitative measures with actual users who were naïve to the testing procedures and purposes.

The results from this series of studies will be discussed at this session. With each study, key objectives were defined with specific measures, methodologies and participant groups to target device features and interactions. Each study will be described in detail with time for questions from the audience.

The findings of some of the early studies have been published. As with any research where opinion, conjecture, and pundits are abundant, some of the findings have generated controversy.
A longer description of the talk is posted on the UsabilityNJ web site.

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Sustainable Interactions - IxDA Panel (New York City, NY, USA)

When: Thursday, January 24, 2008. 6:30 PM.
Where: Midtown Manhattan.
Details provided on RSVP, please e-mail: nyc-rsvp (at) ixda (dot) org

Join IxDA NYC and our panelists to discuss how interaction designers can practice our work in a more sustainable and socially conscious way. Come and find out what our industry visionaries and experts are doing in this area and what you can do to change the world for a better tomorrow. We will get a chance to look at some projects people are doing in service, product design and eco-visualization. We will provide an evening of conversations with the panelists and give you intriguing examples from the field to challenge the notion of how interaction design can make great social impact.

Moderator: Robert Fabricant, Frog Design

Panelists:
Allan Chochinov, Core77.com
Jennifer Van de Meer, O2NYC
Sean White, Columbia University
Tom Igoe, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program

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