by Laura Creekmore | Mar 11, 2012 | Conferences/Events
Patrick Ruffini is moderating, suggests another name for the panel could be “Moneyball for Politics.” Excellent — I’m clearly in the right place. Going to talk about all the uses for big data, how it’s used in politics for prediction,...
by Laura Creekmore | Mar 10, 2012 | Conferences/Events, User experience
OK, the few hundred people in the room here with me are the ONLY people at SXSW not hearing Frank Abagnale talk right now. Wow. The great benefit of coming to see Jared Spool talk is getting to see him dance to Beyoncé’s All the Single Ladies. I gotta call him...
by Laura Creekmore | Mar 10, 2012 | Conferences/Events, Privacy, Social media
Always interesting to hear what danah boyd is thinking and writing about. Notes below are a mixture of quotes, paraphrases and near-quotes. boyd starts off by recommending everyone attend Baratunde Thurston’s keynote at 2p. Started with three points….I...
by Laura Creekmore | Feb 11, 2012 | Conferences/Events, Information management
Chris Farnum and Serena Rosenhan from ProQuest They’re going to talk about their journey from waterfall to agile methodology, and how they accommodated its demands with their IA work. They’re showing a lovely waterfall chart…business case, functional...
by Laura Creekmore | Feb 11, 2012 | Conferences/Events, Information management, Search
Next up, a talk from Shari Thurow on search engines and IA. Thurow is starting with the basics of SEO. If you don’t do these 4 basic building blocks, you can forget it. Doing them makes your content easy to find — both on Google and your internal site...
