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  • 9/11 Geosymposium at Technology in Government 2011, New York

    The NYC GeoSymposium: 2001-2011-2021 held on November 16, 2011 marked the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks by examining the response of the NYC GIS community regarding mobilization of geospatial resources after the event, evolution of procedures, data and technologies since the event, and exploring unmet needs for improved emergency planning and response, as…

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  • World IA Day Announces 14 Locations

    World IA Day has just announced 14 locations for February 11, 2012 1 DAY. 14 CITIES. World IA Day 2012 is about bringing the Information Architecture community together. We

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  • Disaster Planning at Woodstock 1969

    Article updated on the event’s 50th Anniversary with images from Woodstock then and in 2011 when this piece was first published. August 30, 2011 This past weekend, while Irene was threatening the East Coast, my husband and I were in the Catskills for visiting day at our daughters’ summer camp. We decided to extend our…

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  • NYC Tech in Government conference to host Geosymposium

    We got the go-ahead to hold a 9/11 Geosymposium concurrently with New York City’s Technology in Government conference, to be held in November. Stay tuned for details, but it looks like we will have a full day of presentations on Day Two of the conference, November 16. GovTech will be handling registrations and logistics for…

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  • IA Institute Newsletter #6.05 Released

    I am almost finished with the NYC Digital Roadmap and will have a blog post coming soon. In the meantime, there is a lot of new publications on Information Architecture. Put this on your nightstand, bring it to the beach or carry it on the metro, cause we’ve got reading to do: IA Institute just…

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  • This Roadmap Could Use a GPS

    I just finished reading Roadmap for the Digital City: Achieving New York City’s Digital Future (PDF 2.17MB). A glaring economic concern struck me, which the report acknowledges but does not address adequately, despite devoting several pages to it, and that is the issue of access by underserved populations. Solutions offered by the plan include noble…

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  • Open Government Forum at Internet Week NYC

    Over the next couple of days I am going to post summaries of Internet Week sessions that I attended last month. Here is the first, a panel on open government in NYC: In June, I attended a panel on Open Goverment in NYC, hosted by Time Warner as part of Internet Week NYC. I joined…

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  • Conversations with Richard Saul Wurman

    I was having a nice conservation on Monday with my friend, journalist Amanda Robb, about topics that floated in interesting ways from pitching social awareness campaigns to women’s magazines to the role of Twitter and other social media in reporting. The conversation got me thinking about the two different angles that we approach our respective…

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  • ESRI’s Jack Dangermond to Host WWW.WWW

    WWW.Wow. Where else could you find TED founder Richard Saul Wurman, Yo Yo Ma, Herbie Hancock and ESRI‘s Jack Dangermond all in one place? It’s the WWW.WWW Conference, currently planned for September 18/20, 2012. The conference website describes it as: WWW.WWW will be a gathering of the greatest, most interesting & curious minds in the…

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  • Blog migration in progress

    Curiosities #1 (09/02/22): It seems that while updating my, by now back on WordPress, blog I discover and dust off this gem from eleven years ago. I am in the process of consolidating some of my writings into the new Blogger format. As much as I love the integration, flexibility and ownership of a self-hosted…

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