InfoMatters

The Usability Professionals Association will be holding it’s annual conference in Austin in 2007 — the call for papers is still open, see: www.upassoc.org/conference/2007/

First it was a one-off hot topic meeting organized by ASIST. Then is became a regular conference. Last year the first European IA Summit was launched with a second to follow this year. The IA world expands further with another new conference, OzIA 2006, to be held Sept 30th/Oct 1st in Sydney, Australia. Why Australia you ask? Well the conference organizers can answer that: “There has been ongoing demand for Information Architects in the Australian web industry, a demand which hasn’t ceased, while at the same time there is scant support for professional development and community development”. Learn more at: www.oz-ia.org/2006/index.shtml. Thanks to Eric Scheid for the news.