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Archive for April, 2007

Backcasting: or how I learned to stop predicting and help my clients [Session Audio]

Matthew Milan & Sam Ladner

[audio:http://www.thechickentest.com/vid/IASummit2007/Backcasting_or_how_I_learned_to_stop_predicting_and_help_my_clients.mp3]

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Enterprise IA methodologies: starting two steps earlier [Session Audio]

James Robertson

[audio:http://www.thechickentest.com/vid/IASummit2007/Enterprise_IA_Methodologies_Starting_Two_Steps_Earlier.mp3]

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One Laptop Per Child @ BarCampOttawa3

Andrew Clunis gives a great introduction to the One Laptop Per Child project, shows us some of the interfaces and tells us what he is working on.

Grab the quicktime version from the Revver page.

[tags]barcampottawa3, olpc, onelaptopperchild, 100dollarlaptop[/tags]

Ice Cream is awesome in Cottage Country

Ice Cream is awesome in Cottage Country

MMM Ice Cream

Systems Thinking, Rich Mapping and Conceptual Models [Session Audio]

Matt Milan and Gene Smith introduce Rich Mapping and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to information architects. SSM is a holistic problem solving framework that can be used to design and model interactions between organizations, people, environments, products and services.

[audio:http://www.thechickentest.com/vid/IASummit2007/Systems_Thinking_Rich_Mapping_and_Conceptual_Models.mp3]

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