Just saw Kevin Roberts speak at the Stanford GSB. Here are some tidbits from the Saatchi & Saatchi website of that talk.

He was definitely an inspirational and funny speaker. I wonder how far I can take "Lovemarks" in the IA Community. I will have to learn more from the LoveMarks website.

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management(CIKM) is Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS. This is pretty much a heads up since this conference will be held in McLean, VA on November 4-9, 2002.

My colleagues film, No Dumb Questions, which won an honorable mention at Sundance Festival will be showing at a few venues in the Bay Area over the next couple of weeks....

Currently attending the Search Engine Meeting 2002 at Hotel Nikko(SF).

Search Engine Meeting 2002 | Presentations

The subject matter is definitely interesting...search. A good mix of academics and practitioners talking about real world business problems, but also providing insight on emerging search strategies and technologies. I will write up some thoughts over the next couple of days.

I've been following Bonnie Nardi's work recently and came across a couple recent things on her and by her that would be really interesting to the IA community.

Software for the People By Elana Varon in CIO.com

Integrating communication and information through ContactMap in April 2002 issue of Communications of the ACM.

Of course the reason I was recently inspired by Bonnie's work is after reading Peter Morville's article on Social Network Analysis

Leading A Winning Design Effort
May 20-21, 2002
Los Angeles, Calif.
Client cost: $1295, Nonclient cost: $1495

"Who should attend?

Senior business leaders who formulate Internet strategies for their organizations.
Marketing and product development executives who design the user experience.
Technology and design professionals who build the user experience."

Alan Cooper is listed as a featured speaker.

Here's a great place to start when looking at standards related to information.
NISO Standards - National Information Standards Organization (NISO)