I'd like to say Angel has done an awesome job running IXDA LA. Her contributions and organizational skills to put things together should be rewarded by giving her access to a talent network of speakers by creating a speaker board like blackspeakersonline.com or diversityspeakersonline.com or blackspeakers.com. Hooking in that functionality into ning would be great to make her life easier to let people RSVP or be notified of upcoming events. I think an auto blast email reminder system should also be set up so she can just set up the event and the system handles all reminders at certain intervals to encourage people to be careful of their RSVP's so that they show up more often than not.
I also think an interface for meeting locations could be tied in as well so it can all be managed in one place for her and other leaders of groups around UX. This would help coordination a lot and reduce her load since she gets busy a lot with full time job. I think it would be helpful to make a persona called a day in the life of an IXDA organizer or president of a chapter. It would be really educational for new UX people to see how someone created personas for the membership, then one for the organizer (as the business stakeholder), then how all of this gets ranked as important or prioritized then the criteria IXDA finds important would be matched against it and a set of primary and secondary goals would be picked to pursue what needs to be developed. Then a framework would be discussed that would facilitate this best. The project would be used as a discussion tool/contextual inquiry but in real time so its best as you go. In other words using IXDA site as a case study so new people can learn how this profession works by making the IXDA the case study. :) Virtual seminars with whiteboard or using Blackboard or Moodle would be great and much easier to manage since booking live space can be challenging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48599 ________________________________________________________________ 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
