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I was talking to my boss today about how I felt there were lots of little glimmers of hope that things were changing within our organization, but that they never were sustained, and thus extinguished. During this conversation I came up with a way to describe why lots of small glimmers of hope never really amount to true cultural change.

The thought occurred to me when I took the metaphor of glimmer to it’s nth degree. So a successful glimmer would start to gleam as it was nurtured, till it finally shown brightly. However, most glimmers disappear, as if while they were trying to break the darkness they were sucked back into the opaque black of the status quo.

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In NYC @ the Parsons School of Design in the Parsons Design Lab, we had a wonderful panel discussion. The Panel was key-noted and then moderated by Louis Rosenfeld and the panelists included:
Conor Brady – Creative Director, Razorfish
Marilyn Tremaine
James Spahr
Mark Hurst
Josh Seiden
Whitney Quesenbery

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Here lies the presentation I gave on March 6, 2005 a the IA Summit in Montreal.
The original proceedings did not have all the slides as presented.

A conversation with someone afterwards got me to think that I need to make a disclaimer. Theh primary audience for this presentation is the internal UX community. I do not see any value presenting this to a x-functional team outside the general UX community. It is also specifically geared for people who’s work combines Information Architecture and Interaction Design.

I’m adding this concept of a widgetologist to my vocabulary. If Christina can create widgetopia, then i can be a widgetologist. I’ll let people know how the term is received at my presentation later today.

Jesse James Garrett, put together a great piece on HTML-based rich GUIs. he even gave it a name–Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML). go to read the article on the Adaptive Path site.

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The summit is a great success. As someone on the planning committee I feel partially responsible, but I also feel that so much of the success is because if the planning committee lead, Stacy Surla (yeah!!!! Stacy!). Many things went exceedingly well for this conference because of her great ideas. But there were a host of great thoughts and comments (some that conflict with each other that are worth documenting for the future.

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The Information Architecture Summit will be in Montreal this year from March 3rd to the 7th at the Queen E (Fairmont) Hotel. I will be making a version of the presentation I gave in NYC in October.

I’m helping to organize a social event on Sunday night of the Summit for IxDers. Please shoot me an e-mail if you want to come and if you have suggestions to to the IA Summit blog entry and post your suggestion there.

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