SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: The Book Idea
RE: SIGIA-L: The Book Idea
From: Robbie Fitzgerald (robbie_at_adrenaline.com)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 11:41:00 EDT
Glad to see we are creating outlets to capture all this
energy. I have been an IA for 10 of my 13 years of experience,
but only adopted the title in 1995 just before I went to AOL
as Design Director and Chief IA architect for AOL 4.0 and the retrofit of
3.0.
My experiences range from packaged CD-based software, to print-based
system branding design, to environmental graphics, to web design, and
teaching and lecturing on the subject. I have worked for now-defunct
Voyager Co, Magnet Interactive, Discovery Channel, AOL and now Adrenaline.
My clients range from the Vatican to IBM, Citibank and Janus films.
For years I felt solo in articulating what it is we are able to discuss
today.
Very glad to meet all you other old timers and new entrants.
May I make a few suggestions for some of the areas of discussion?
Re the website and this mailing list:
1) Can we include threaded discussions to parse out specific interests?
There should be an open-source available, a possible code short-cut.
2) How about including a reference section, possibly broken out by topic
which includes the various books and links that are being suggested?
3) There are a great deal of terrific thoughts going around, how about
focusing
on bullet points to aid in more rapid digestion of the material?
Re the book:
Craig, would you give some suggestions as to how to best capture
the knowledge base represented amongst us?
Conferences going forward:
1) Would it be valuable to incorporate break out sessions, thereby
segregating discussions and allowing more of us to learn from
each other?
Robbie Fitzgerald
Sr. Consultant
The Adrenaline Group
Austin, TX/Washington, DC
phone: 512-493-5775
email: robbie_at_adrenaline.com
url: www.adrenaline.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sigia-l_at_asis.org [mailto:owner-sigia-l_at_asis.org]On Behalf Of
Edward M. Housman
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 8:00 AM
To: craig_battrick_at_hp.com
Cc: sigia-l_at_asis.org; emh_at_mitre.org
Subject: Re: SIGIA-L: The Book Idea
Craig. You just volunteered to be our book architect. Please proceed
flank speed to mobilize all the people who have expressed interest,
including myself. I would say a written proposal is the first step.
Let me know if I can help. Candy and Dick can probably help us find a
suitable publisher.
--Ed
craig_battrick_at_hp.com wrote:
>
> Wow! What a response!
>
> Give me the weekend to put together some thoughts on how to proceed with
such an
> undertaking. As a book publisher (I've done five), I can say that the
mechanics
> of book production are relatively easy. As some of you pointed out,
organizing
> the information is the tricky part. But that's what we do for a living,
no? In
> my current job at HP, I work with teams of engineers to create books. They
range
> from 100 to 250 pages in size and many of them have to do with best
practices.
> All this to say that I see no problems in doing this, just a lot of
effort. And
> think about a year or so as the length of the project.
>
> And yes, I was seeing myself as the organizer of all this since project
> management is also something I do.
>
> So... stand by for more thoughts.
>
> Craig
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