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CMS/DITA North America 2008 (Santa Clara, CA, USA)

The Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2008 conference will continue the tradition of combining two unique conferences to meet the needs of organizations looking for cost effective ways to produce and manage content and increase the value of information for customers.

Content Management Strategies, in its 10th season, remains the premier conference for managing technical and business-oriented content throughout the enterprise.

DITA North America, in its 4th season, presents the leading corporate adopters, industry experts, and key vendors on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. DITA has clearly reached a Tipping Point to become the foremost international standard for technical and business content.

Sessions include:

• Content Excellence and the Total User Experience
• Information Architecture in the DITA World of Topic-Based Information
• The Playlist Model: Designing and delivering modular content

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Copy is interface (Palo Alto, CA, USA)

BayCHI’s February program meeting is Copy is interface by Erica Hall.

Erika Hall co-founded Mule Design in September 2001, hoping to make web design more humane. She now acts as the Lead Strategist for the company, who have worked with numerous big brands such as Six Apart, Sphere, Yahoo! and Wall Street Journal to bring new dynamics to web design.

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KMWorld & Intranets 2008 (San Jose, CA, USA)

The KMWorld & Intranets Conference and Exhibition offers a wide-ranging program especially focused to meet the needs of executives and strategic business and technology decision makers. This is a must-attend for those concerned with improving their organization’s bottom line, business processes and productivity, as well as streamlining operations and accelerating development and innovation in their evolving enterprises.

Past KMWorlds have included user experience sessions.

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UIST 2008 (Monterey, CA, USA)

UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces. UIST 2008 will bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW. The intimate size, the single track, and comfortable surroundings make this symposium an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and implementation experiences.

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MX San Francisco (CA, USA)

As the business value of design becomes clearer, creative managers building the next generation of products and services are confronted with an increasingly demanding set of challenges. MX San Francisco, Managing Experience through Creative Leadership, brings thought leaders from IDEO, Google, The New York Times, The Mayo Clinic, and many others, to show you what it takes to get great experiences out into the world. MX goes beyond typical design management discussions that remain focused on traditional concerns of print and brand, toward a new frontier of innovative products and service-oriented experiences.

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UX Intensive (San Francisco, CA, USA)

UX Intensive is an intermediate-to-advanced workshop series that examines the four key elements that contribute to a successful interactive experience: Design Strategy, Design Research, Interaction Design and Information Architecture. Workshops are led by Adaptive Path’s team of experts.

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DIAC-2008 (Berkeley, CA, USA)

At the dawn of the 21st century humankind faces challenges of profound proportions. The ability of people around the world to discuss, work, make decisions, and take action collaboratively is one of the most important capabilities for addressing these challenges.

Researchers, scholars, activists, advocates, artists, educators, technologists, designers, students, policy-makers, entrepreneurs, journalists and citizens are rising to these challenges in many ways, including, devising new communication technologies that build on the opportunities afforded by the Internet and other new (as well as old) media. The interactions between technological and social systems are of special and central importance in this area.

DIAC-08 combines CPSR’s 11th Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing symposium with the third Conference on Online Deliberation. The joint conference is intended to provide a platform and a forum for highlighting socio-technological opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls in the area of community and civic action. Technology enhanced community action ranges from informal communities of practice to democratic governance of formal organizations to large social movements.

We are especially interested in technology development that is already being tested or fielded. We are also interested in theoretical and other intellectual work that helps build understanding and support for future efforts. In addition to exploring social technology, we must at the same time understand and advance the social context of technology, including its design, access, use, policy and evaluation, as well as intellectual frameworks and perspectives that inform technological as well as social innovation including requirements, case studies, critique and self-reflection, and infrastructures for future work.

Our areas of focus include but are not limited to: deliberative and collaborative systems, e-democracy and e-participation, mobilization and organization, negotiation, consultation, sustainability, community support systems, open source models, human rights, ecological awareness, conflict resolution, justice, transparency systems, media and civic journalism, media literacy, power research, citizen science, economic development and opportunity, peace and reconciliation, infrastructure development, policy, education, community networks, research and development for civil society, social software, virtual communities and civic intelligence.

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WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference & Expo (Santa Clara, CA, USA)

The Second Annual WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference & Expo will cover popular Web 2.0 technologies as well as those shaping the future direction of the Web. Learn from industry experts and thought leaders, connect with the companies changing the rules of the game, and those redefining the future.

Web 2.0 has changed the rules for doing business on the web and created whole new markets. Learn how you can leverage Web 2.0 technologies to gain competitive advantages, improve user experiences, find customers, and discover new business opportunities.

The Web Design and User Experience track includes sessions on these topics:

• Designing for Web 2.0
• Localization & Accessibility 2.0
• Website Optimization
• Personalization
• Designing for Mobile 2.0

Sponsored by WebGuild (Silicon Valley), which includes User Experience as one focus.

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VizThink ‘08 (San Francisco, CA, USA)

VizThink ‘08 is gathering visual thinkers from all corners of the world to create the first global community dedicated to the use of visualization in all forms of learning and communication.

Are you a visual thinker? Do you use images, graphics, or visualization for learning and communication? Do you want to learn how to apply visualization techniques to your business? Do you want to learn how to work and communicate more effectively?

The visual thinking community is made up of researchers, educators, practioners, tool creators, service providers, consultants, and many others. They come from all over the world, in all industries, and in businesses of all sizes. They come from almost any role such as:

• Art, design and visual communication (such as experience designers)
• Journalism
• Software
• Executives, operations and management
• Educators

Conference facilitators who will be leading hands on activities and discussions related to their specialties include:

• Scott McCloud
• Bob Horn
• Kevin Cheng
• Nigel Holmes
• Dan Rose
• Luke Wroblewski

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Usability Week 2008 (San Francisco, CA, 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 San Francisco will be June 16-21. (Other locations: New York, London and Melbourne.)

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