Blog Articles
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What to Ask? Contract to Permanent Salary
So you’ve been offered a job at a company where you are doing contract work. That’s great news! You’ve shown them your value and they trust you and want you on the team permanently. But you may be thinking, “Am I at a disadvantage in negotiating a salary? The client already knows what they are…
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Short Bursts: Noreen Whysel
The Information Architecture Summit has a feature where they ask members of the community to answer the same ten questions. The feature editor, Marianne Sweeney, invited me to participate. “Short bursts is a head start on meeting some of the smart, talented, funny, thoughtful, creative and disruptive information architects, user experience professionals and content strategists…
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Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World
Amy Jeu and I curated a weekend exhibit, Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World, on October 29-30, 2016 at the Queens Museum celebrating the map-making community. The event featured talks and demonstrations as well as a hall dedicated to paper and digital maps submitted from the private collections of members of the GISMO community.…
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Hackathons: Prizes, Waitlists and Making Introductions
I answer questions about UX, Information Architecture and other topics on Quora. A selection of these answers will be reposted on Medium with occasional, minor editing for clarity. The following questions about hackathons appeared in my inbox in August and September of 2016. If I win a prize at a hackathon, should I put it…
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Is 38 Too Old to Start a Career as a UX Designer?
I answer questions about UX, Information Architecture and other topics on Quora. A selection of these answers will be reposted on Medium with occasional, minor editing for clarity. A lot of what makes a good UX designer/researcher/architect are the soft skills that you only really develop having been in the working world for a while,…
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New IDESG Service Empowers Organizations to Better Protect Digital Identities
Registry Is Key Step in Growing Healthy and Secure Online Identity Ecosystem Marketwired Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) Jun 6, 2016 8:00 AM WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – Jun 6, 2016) – The Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) — an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to creating the future of trusted digital identities — today announced a new…
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Wikipedia at IA Summit 2016
As a Wikipedian who has been increasingly involved with editathons in New York City since completing my MLIS degree at Pratt Institute School of Information, I have been interested in creating bridges between the Wikipedia and IA communities. Thanks to a Wikimedia Foundation TPS grant, I was able to represent Wikipedia at the 2016 IA…
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Driving the Dome
For eight weeks every Wednesday, Brett and I snuck away under darkness and rain to the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium to learn how to make a star show. We learned the ins and outs of the planetarium’s computer controls and presented shows for our family and friends on March 30th in the dome.…
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Calm Down. Wikipedia is Not Planning to Compete with Google.
I am reading and rereading the discussion/controversy/hype/reporting on Wikipedia’s knowledge engine and wondering exactly what about it should be construed as a direct competitor to Google. Yes. An unbiased, independent, not tied to corporate interests search engine, but of what content? Wikipedia’s, most likely. Surely not all of the internet, since their own data and…