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Hey Everyone. I'm Bryce. I am an InfoCamp organizer and a designer working for Xbox. Yay gaming! I'm intrigued by enterprise & BI software… really! Wannabe Data Scientist in training. I know Government 2.0 is important. http://twitter.com/brycej
Hi! I'm Colleen and I too am on the InfoCamp Seattle organizing committe for 2011. I'm Content Access Manager at Sno-Isle Libraries which means I manage projects, design, UX for Web site, Intranet and Catalog. I am so excited about InfoCamp this year. Our theme of recombination has so many possibilities, I can hear the ideas popping already!
Hi — I'm Anneliese. In addition to being a mom and all-around good egg (so they say). I'm a senior writer at Microsoft. I'm interesting in the following, in no particular order: deconstructing technobabble; the mercurial and ever-fascinating Excel; information architecture and matters of discoverability; good writing; customer-friendly experiences; absurdity in any form or location, particularly in the workplace. Looking forward to IC 2011…hope for a fuschia t-shirt this time.
Hi everyone, I'm Caroline and I'm helping organize InfoCamp this year as well! I'm a recent graduate from the Information School and I work in the library at Edmonds Community College. This is my third year attending InfoCamp, and I'm really excited to be on the other side of things this time around! I'm interested in the social repercussions of information technology and management and how that affects our educational institutions..among other things:) Looking forward to seeing you all there this year!
Greetings all! I am Andy Szydlowski.
I work at Serials Solutions and a bizarre Software Developer / Metadata Librarian hybrid. I am really interested in talking about metadata, data management, libraries in this age we call digital and different paradigms of publishing and approaches to copyright.
I am looking forward to another smashing year at InfoCamp full of high octane conversation and coffee! I'll be on of the people running around frantically carting boxes, moving chairs and ushering foodstuffs to and fro. In between, I am excited for the all connecting and sessions.
I'm Cadi, a librarian at Bellevue College. I'm interested in promoting information and technology literacy, promoting creative and critical thinking, and making our technology tools more usable.
I've been with InfoCamp from the start – first as a passive participant, then volunteer, presenter, and now a planner. Can't wait to meet you all!
Greetings InfoCampers! My name is Lisa Mendez and I'm one of the InfoCamp organizers. I'm a UX Designer at a financial company in downtown Seattle. I love InfoCamp because of the diversity of topics that end up being discussed at our event. And, everyone is just so cool. Yes, I'm talking about you! I can't wait to see the topics this year. I will see you there- I'll be running around with the rest of the InfoCamp crew, say hello!
Hello everyone! My name is Chris Lam and I'm currently doing my masters in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. I've had a handful of internships doing UX/Interaction Design at a few big software companies such as Intuit and VMware.
I've been attending InfoCamp for the past two years and I LOVE it!
I'm currently prepping a talk/design session based on what I learned at Intuit for this year's InfoCamp!
Feel free to check out my portfolio: http://www.whoischrislam.com/work/php
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/whoischrislam
Hope to meet you all!
I'll see you there Chris. I am excited to see your presentation.
Hello, all! My name is Kelli Bragg, I'm an MLIS student through the online program @ the University of Alabama, and I just ended my term as the UA ASIS&T Student Chapter Secretary and Acting Chair (I graduate in December). I'm currently in an internship at Sno-Isle with Colleen Brazil, where I'm learning about metadata application and cataloging.
This will be my first Infocamp.
Topics of interest to me are: Metadata, Accessibilty for people with print disabilities, alternative ways of viewing information, XML/XHTML/CSS, and learning everything I can about emerging technologies.
Hello InfoCamp. I am Andrew Mottaz, CTO/CEO of Site9, makers of ProtoShare. I want to talk about Collaboration: the good, the bad and the ugly. First, I want people to share stories of collaboration gone horribly, horribly wrong (with a door prize for the funniest story?), followed by stories of astounding collaboration successes. From this, I want to identify what makes collaborative efforts succeed when they succeed, and fail when they fail. Collaboration is a fascinating topic for me, and I hope we can share some insights and hear some great war stories too.
Hello InfoCamp. I am Andrew Mottaz, CTO/CEO of Site9, makers of ProtoShare. I want to talk about Collaboration: the good, the bad and the ugly. First, I want people to share stories of collaboration gone horribly, horribly wrong (with a door prize for the funniest story?), followed by stories of astounding collaboration successes. From this, I want to identify what makes collaborative efforts succeed when they succeed, and fail when they fail.
Understanding collaboration is import to me, so I'm hoping we can share some important insights, and hear some great war stories too.
I'm Kristen, a librarian at Seattle University. I'm really excited to attend InfoCamp after four years of helping plan it! InfoCamp always inspires me, and I'm looking forward to this year's conversations and fun.
I am Quentin and I am a Program Manager at Microsoft working on SharePoint and Office 365. I have attended Infocamp every year since it started and I am looking forward to another great year.
I'm Christopher! I work in Seattle as a Linux admin. I love studying all aspects of information! My first InfoCamp was in 2010 at Seattle University. I can't wait for this one :]
Hi! I'm Tracy. I graduated from the MLIS program at San Jose State University in May with a concentration in the Organization of Information/Emerging Technologies and I am currently a Media Manager at Corbis in Seattle.
I do a little bit of metadata, taxonomy, vocabulary, cataloging and bug tracking for a digital asset management system.
Looking forward to meeting a ton of people. InfoCamp Seattle 2010 was awesome!
Hi, I am Luke Holder. I have been creating websites since i was 17 when I was expelled from my high school in 1999 for creating an anonymous messageboard for school students to express themselves. I have since spent 11 years building websites and more currently developed a passion for content strategy, interface design, user experience, and complexity science. I look forward to infocamp.
My name is Bernard Chester. I've been programming for over 40 years, and I have been active in electronic document technologies for over 20 years. In my career I've worked at Microsoft, a minicomputer manufacturer, a data comm manufacturer and several software companies, among others. Helped build the first electronic newspaper. I've done standards work in a number of IT segments. What I love most is when a simple design can solve a complex problem.Curious about what might happen at Infocamp, and trying to prepare some notes if the spirit to present strikes me.
My name is Lane Rasberry. Does anyone want to talk about promoting science in the Seattle area through Wikipedia? A lot of amazing research happens here and when people search for it, Wikipedia could be their access point for it. Contact me about promoting organizations, research, and good work through Wikipedia.
Hey all my name's Zach Hale. I do freelance web development and have worked mostly with local Seattle startups. I'll be volunteering this time around and hope to meet you!
Zach. It will be nice to see you. Maybe we’ll have to run a side session on the Westy-to-Bicycle lifecyle
My name is Garrett Cobarr and my friend Lane Rasberry made me aware of InfoCamp recently. I have longterm experience in UX, UI and media design and strategy with a special focus in 3D. For the last 6 years my primary experience has moved to virtual worlds and the 3D Web. For all the grisly details go to Garrett Cobarr | LinkedIn http://wthink.me/qj7bB3
If anyone would like to discuss virtual world platforms or the future of 3D Web, I am that guy.
Hi everybody!
My name is Jonathan Morgan. I'm a PhD candidate in Human Centered Design & Engineering at UW, and a Research Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation (Lane: let's talk about this science-on-WP idea of yours!).
I attended Infocamps 2008 and 2010, and can't wait for this year's offering. I'm hoping to give a presentation on the Living Voters Guide (livingvotersguide.org), an open source, non-partisan citizen engagement project I work on. We're about to launch this year's voters guide… should be up by Saturday (fingers crossed) and I'd love to share it with you!
In my ever-diminishing spare time, I am a voracious and omnivorous reader and enjoy trail running, loud music, fresh air and looking shit up on the internet.
See you all soon!
-Jonny
Hello! My name is Uma. I am a recent Computer Science Ph.D. graduate from Virginia Tech, currently living in the Seattle area. My interests are in digital libraries, image annotation and retrieval, and educational technologies, among other areas.
I am currently working for a start-up, urcventures.com, where I am doing user studies to evaluate 3D reconstruction from images. In a different project, I am developing a web-based application for image annotation and search.
This is my first Infocamp. I am hoping to start a discussion on conducting user/usability studies with participants in remote locations. I recently conducted such a user study and found it challenging and interesting. I would love to share my experience and get your inputs. Also, I would like to connect with people working with images and/or doing user studies involving images.
Looking forward to seeing you all!
Hi Folks, my name is Wayne Glover. This is my first infocamp conference. A mechanical engineer by training, I became interested in content and information management after taking the CMS certificate program at the iSchool.
At the conference, I am going to talk about information management. Specifically, I want to Improve information management (IM) for small organizations/project managers using Plone as an IM system. Within this IM system, use pre-defined metadata elements, file naming and saving conventions, workflow, and RSS to complete the information cycle.
Loved to hear from anyone interested in this topic. Looking for some good ideas and some exciting discussion.
My name is Marc Schmalz, and I attend the University of Washington’s Information School where I’m pursuing the mid-career option for the Master of Science in Information Management program. When I’m not in class, studying, or freelancing on research projects, I’m usually working in the School of Nursing’s IT group or as the Director of Electronic Publishing for Green Ronin Publishing. If I’m very lucky, I’ll find a way to get a Ph.D. at the intersection of games and information science, and do it somewhere with awe-inspiring graduation robes.
Hey there, my name is Sena, and I am an Industrial Designer / User Interaction Designer. I am hoping to gain some insight between the gap that happens when visual design is complete and implementation on hardware devices….How are other companies solving this issue? Having designers code?
I'm Rachel Ratner with Seattle Band Map: A Cartographic Study of Musical Incest. It's an exploration of how NW musicians are connected via shared collaborations. We're updating our data visualization, converting to RDF, growing the map to include artists from different cities, and brainstormings ways it can be utilized to benefit underground musicians. We'd love your thoughts / help! http://www.seattlebandmap.com, @seattlebandmap
Hi fellow geeks! I'm a UX Designer at Design Commission. I'm looking forward to learning from a lot of folks with great ideas and passion for design and information. Be sure to say hi and exchange cards (or bump iPhones) with me! (and follow me on twitter @brian_thurston)
Hola InfoCamp. I'm frank martinez, from Microsoft Research. Can't wait to learn what others are doing with data, mashups, visualizations, Open Data [OData].
I'll be sharing our OData release, more info at: http://odata.research.microsoft.com/
This is my first InfoCamp; can't wait!
Hi InfoCampers, I'm a phd student at the Information School, UW, and also a UX designer for Academic Collaborative Applications, UW-IT. This is my first InfoCamp. I'm excited to meet all of you guys. I'm particularly interested in group information management in design context (i.e. how to share and manage design project information). I'm also interested in design for mobile and expanding existing web apps to mobile.
Hello all! My name is Eura Szuwalski and I am the Electronic Services, Instruction and Administrative librarian at the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library. I have my MILS from Emporia State University through their Portland campus.
My library provides recreational and informational reading for WA residents who cannot easily read standard size print, have problems holding or turning pages or have a learning disability due to an organic dysfunction, such as dyslexia. As part of my job I teach patrons and third party representatives how to download books, work on the library's website and help to make sure all the bills are paid and the building doesn't fall apart around us.
My interests are accessibility for those with print disabilities, website design, instruction and information literacy for all ages.
This is my first InfoCamp and I thank Peggy Fine and my supervisor, Danielle Miller, for making it possible for me to attend.
I'm very excited to take part and look forward to learning from all the amazing attendees.
My name is Eli Edwards. I am currently a Ronin Librarian (i.e. unattached). I have a MLIS and a JD, just finished my first year here in Seattle, and I'm very interested in issues of information policy and access to knowledge, including copyright, online privacy, open access scholarly publishing, media regulation and telecommunications issues. Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/miss_eli
Hello, I'm Rick Spencer. I'm finally making it to InfoCamp after three unsuccessful tries. I'm a Sr. User Interface Designer for Salesforce currently. Since 2005 I've worked in mobile, social, web, app and more. I suppose I'm always trying to find that sweet spot of great people, great project and robust creative environment.
I've found that I really like enterprise software, and I'm excited to be working on Chatter which blends social interaction design and the enterprise application problem space.
I doubt I will be talking to anyone formally about anything, but I'm always happy to talk to people who are getting their start about what makes for a good agile UX design environment. I hope to listen and learn more than anything else. See you there!
Hello, my name is Hoby and right now I'm working over on the east side as a Usability Designer for a server cloud backup service called Doyenz. This is the first time I'm attending this as a non-volunteer so I'm feeling particularly lazy. I may want to host another session but I might as well just languidly wander from room to room as a passive consumer. Who knows? Anything could happen.
My name is Paul Simons, and I am the CEO of iHear Network. We are working on a Social News Reader for mobile platform that incorporates TTS. I just completed my MSIM degree from UW last June, and had a blast at the past two Seattle info camps. My interests include: start ups, collaboration, the future of news consumption, photography, mobile tech, hiking, and really great vegetarian food.
Cheers!
Hi everyone! My name is April. The is my second InfoCamp. Last year was a blast and I came back with so much good information and things to ponder. Thank you! Looking forward to what manifests this year!
I like to describe myself as a swiss army knife. My career spans business analysis, project management, training, usability, design, but the most important component is being a user advocate. Primarily I work in web sites and applications focusing mostly on company intranets. I have worked for Boeing, Weyerhaeuser, University of Washington and now I am at Providence Health & Services.
If you happen to see me, please say HI! You can also find me on Twitter @aprilmunden.
I'm Paula Land, founder and principal consultant at Strategic Content (www.strategiccontent.com), a content strategy consulting company. I recently founded a second company, Content Insight (www.content-insight.com), to build tools for content strategists and content managers, starting with the Content Analysis Tool, which creates website content inventories.
I am interested in anything and everything to do with content and content management, and particularly where technology can support and enable the work we do.
This is my first InfoCamp and I'm happy to be revisiting Mary Gates Hall, where I spent many interesting and fun hours getting my MSIM degree back in 2004.
twitter @content_insight or @plland
Howdy, I'm Ario… a user experience designer and UX-nerd that recently moved back up to Seattle from SF. I'm also a recent ex-Googler, about to join Amazon working on some cool cloud storage stuff. I attended InfoCamp last year and had a blast… really looking forward to attending again and may give a talk as well if there's interest. Hope to meet all of you!
–@ario
I'm Paula Land, founder and principal consultant at Strategic Content (www.strategiccontent.com), a content strategy consulting company. I recently founded a second company, Content Insight (www.content-insight.com), to build tools for content strategists and content managers, starting with the Content Analysis Tool, which creates website content inventories. I am interested in anything and everything to do with content and content management, and particularly where technology can support and enable the work we do.
This is my first InfoCamp and I'm happy to be revisiting Mary Gates Hall, where I spent many interesting and fun hours getting my MSIM degree back in 2004. @content_insight
Hi InfoCamp: My name is Turner Masland, and I am just finishing Library School in Portland, OR. Currently I work in the Oregon Health & Science University Library, the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine Library and the Pacific University Library Archives as an intern. I am interesting in how library patrons interact with our systems and in the management of digital collections. This will be my second InfoCamp in Seattle, and I am helping to get an InfoCampPDX off the ground next spring. If you're interested in helping out getting it started, feel free to drop me a line!
Hello my name is Kirsten and this will be my second year at infocamp Seattle. I am from Portland and a recent graduate of Emporia's MLS program. I currently work at OHSU'S medical library but am looking for a full-time librarian position. So excited to be volunteering this year!
My name is Joni Savage and this is my second Infocamp adventure. I'm crazy about language and online search (taxonomies, SEO/SEM, content strategy, etc.). I graduated with my MLIS from SJSU last Spring and I've worked as a taxonomist and content editor for various organizations.
I am wrapping up work as a Project Manager at Microsoft Bing and joining Eddie Bauer's online search team in a couple of weeks. I also work as a "Cybrarian" for Bellevue College's health informatics distance courses. I hope to share ideas about Web visibility, findability, and other cool stuff.
Hi – I'm Tim. I'm a 2007 (is that right?) UW MILIS grad. This is my 3rd infocamp.
From an infocamp perspective, privacy is the thing that gets me worked up these days (I'm also interested in bicycles as transportation but that's probably not what you want to talk about this weekend). As info pros, we need to do a better job ensuring we take absolute care of the information entrusted to us. RIght now the industry is doing a sucktabulous job, on just about every level (from terms of use, to data storage, to interface design, to content and on and on).
RIght now companies are getting away with monumental sloppiness, but I think privacy as whole is an issue that's going to blow up pretty soon. It's not going to be pretty ("Occupy Datacenters" anyone?)
But maybe the info pros can clean this mess up before it gets to that point…
My name is Mark and I own MRW Web Design, a small web company in Seattle that focuses on building nonprofit websites.
I admittedly know very little about IA and the like, but it's something I've always wanted to know more about, as it has a clear connection to my everyday work.
I think people (by which I mostly mean myself) sometimes assume that IA is only useful on large websites but I'm looking to learn the principles that I can apply to any size project. I thinking taking an IA mindset into any web project can really benefit the user when the final result comes around.
Hopefully I'll take a big leap forward this weekend. I can't wait!
My name is Erik Speckman. I'm a sysadmin/program manager/wearer-of-many-hats at Intersect.com, a local web startup.
I've done a few unconferences before, and I'm looking forward to being exposed to new ideas and perspectives at Infocamp.
Hi everyone! My name is Ashlimarie Dong, and I just graduated this summer from UW's Human-Centered Design & Engineering department.
I am very passionate about beautiful & user-friendly user-interface designs, and am looking to get into the industry very soon. I also have a fairly long history of working with development, both front and back-end, but I definitely prefer the front-end more since I love making designs come to life.
This is my first InfoCamp, and I honestly don't know what to expect! I look forward to networking and discussing UI/UX!
Hello! My name is Jessica and I recently graduated from the UW's MLIS program last December 2010. I am working as a technician in a law library, and volunteering in a horticulture library. My hope is to become an academic or special librarian in the Seattle area! I have also taken coursework and interned in health sciences libraries and information resources environments.
My name is Megan Finaly and I'm in the new GTCM program in the HCD & Engineering dept. I'm a visual designer turned more UX design. I used to work at Amazon in the Int'l dept. I love info and love content strategy. I play ultimate frisbee whenever I get a chance.
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