Mark, it was how a leader speaks, it was *brilliant*, it was *thought provoking*, it was *inspiring*. It made me (and many others I think) finally feel like we're all part of something bigger. It made me (and others) start to realize the potential if we all worked together.
I wanted to try and keep that going post conference - it would have been oh so easy to just drift back into everyday work life - hence my fumbling attempts to provoke an ongoing conversation and movement in itsjustux.org. I hear about the IAI and IxDA boards working together and sponsoring each others conferences, which is great - I wonder though what else *we* (the memberships) can do. For example - I don't think having two discussion lists to discuss essentially identical, or at the least very similar, things is useful. I don't buy Dan's assertion that the IxDA list is mainly about IxDA - so I did a little analysis on the July messages (I picked July because it had a lot of messages - 196 in total), here is the breakdown: Job 53 Event 38 Interfaces 23 Other 11 Usability 8 Prototyping 7 Learning 6 Book 5 Process 5 Research 5 UX 5 IA 4 Design 3 New Product 3 Search 3 CMS 2 Errors 2 Form Design 2 Accessibility 1 Article 1 Documentation 1 Eye Tracking 1 Interviewing 1 Labels 1 Legal 1 Local 1 Org Charts 1 Persuasion 1 Roles 1 Of all of those categories the 23 out of 196 about Interface issue were the ones you could probably point to and say "they're mostly IxDA" - but even they're not exclusively about IxDA issues and they're only a small percentage of the traffic - much of which was probably also cross posted to the IAI list! I'm not trying to devalue or point fingers - i'm just trying to highlight the overlap here! - Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40597 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
