Presented as part of the University of Washington Information Architecture Institute (INFX 598) on June 21, 2012.

1. COMMUNITY
@PimpIA Michael Adcock June 22, 2012 – INFX 598

2. COMMUNITY
“Hey, that looks familiar!”

3. WHO AM I?
pimpformationarchitect.com michaeladcock.info

4. Helping Your Library
Be The Best Partner For Research
Thank You
Michael Adcock
Technical Support Analyst,
Global Client Support Services
Serials Solutions | 501 North 34th Street, Suite
200 | Seattle, WA, 98103, USA | 1-866-737-4257
x1081 | Michael.Adcock@serialssolutions.com

5. Personal Learning Network
manage your resources

6. Personal Learning Network
People as information resources
Curate your collection of contacts and let them feed
you information
Periodically share your own findings (links, blog
posts, etc.)
Engage and connect people to each other and to
helpful information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Learning_Networks

7. Twitter
access your resources

8. Twitter
Links to…
articles
blog posts
book releases
samples
Discussion on…
current practices and trends
jobs
psychological support
amusing banter

9. Archive My Tweets
“I wanted a way to
browse and search my
old tweets, archive them
in case Twitter ever dies,
and do this all on my
own web server. Douglas
Bowman of Stopdesign
created something
similar, but I felt there
were too many steps
involved for something
so simple, so I
created Archive My
Tweets. Now I have a
browsable and
searchable archive of all
my tweets.”
Get it at: amwhalen.com/projects/archive-my-tweets

10. Who’s Who
understand your resources

11. Who’s Who
I want to introduce you to people.
I’m not trying to play favorites or pimp out friends,
but obviously this list is biased.
These are “thought leaders” who love to share and
collaborate.
Please don’t think of them as rockstars! 

12. Stephen Anderson
Focus: Design Psychology, Seduction
Location: Dallas, TX
Twitter: @stephenanderson, @getmentalnotes
Website: blog.getmentalnotes.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

13. Fred Beecher
Focus: Axure Prototyping
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Twitter: @fred_beecher
Website: userexperience.evantageconsulting.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

14. Margot Bloomstein
Focus: Content Strategy
Location: Boston, MA
Twitter: @mbloomstein
Website: appropriateinc.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

15. Dan Brown
Focus: Documents/Artifacts, Conflict
Location: Bethesda, MD
Twitter: @brownorama
Website: communicatingdesign.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

16. Leah Buley
Focus: Working Solo, Sketching
Location: San Francisco, CA
Twitter: @ugleah
Website: ugleah.tumblr.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

17. Dana Chisnell
Focus: Usability, Voting
Location: Boston, MA
Twitter: @danachis
Website: www.usabilityworks.net
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

18. Adam Connor & Aaron Irizarry
Focus: Design Critique
Location: Western MA & Southern CA
Twitter: @adamconnor, @aaroni268
Website: adamconnor.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

19. Catriona Cornett
Focus: Inspiration
Location: Philly, PA
Twitter: @inspireUX
Website: www.inspireux.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

20. Christian Crumlish & Erin Malone
Focus: Social Interfaces, Play
Location: Oakland, CA & San Francisco, CA
Twitter: @mediajunkie, @emalone
Website: mediajunkie.com, www.emdezine.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

21. Katey Deeny
Focus: Value Sensitive Design
Location: Portland, OR
Twitter: @followsprocess
Website: followsprocess.wordpress.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

22. Veronica Erb
Focus: Sketchnoting, Research, HTML Prototyping
Location: Washington, DC
Twitter: @verbistheword
Website: veronicaerb.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

23. Will Evans
Design, Philosophy, Research, Semiotics, Gaga, Exposing
Focus: Douchebaggery
Location: New York, NY
Twitter: @semanticwill
Website: blog.semanticfoundry.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

24. Karl Fast
Focus: Education, Information Overload
Location: Kent, OH
Twitter: @karlfast
Website: karlfast.org
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

25. John Ferrara
Focus: Game Design, Play
Location: Philly, PA
Twitter: @ferrarajc
Website: rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/blog/
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

26. Nick Finck
Focus: Mobile UX, Community
Location: Seattle, WA
Twitter: @nickf
Website: www.nickfinck.com/blog
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

27. Deb Gelman
Focus: Designing for Children, Fun
Location: Philly, PA
Twitter: @dgelman
Website: chaoticcurrents.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

28. Thom Haller
Focus: Content, Clear Communication
Location: Washington, DC
Twitter: @thomhaller
Website: thomhaller.posterous.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

29. Kristina Halvorson
Focus: Content Strategy
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Twitter: @halvorson
Website: blog.braintraffic.com/author/kristina-halvorson
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

30. Whitney Hess
Focus: Evangelism, Inspiration
Location: New York, NY
Twitter: @whitneyhess
Website: whitneyhess.com/blog
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

31. Andrew Hinton
Focus: Context, Connections
Location: Atlanta, GA
Twitter: @inkblurt
Website: www.inkblurt.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:
Coming eventually!

32. Dan Klyn
Focus: Understanding, Teaching, Architecture
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Twitter: @danklyn
Website: understandinggroup.com/makingthingsbegd
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

33. Livia Labate
Focus: Management of Experience Design
Location: Bethesda, MD
Twitter: @livlab
Website: livlab.com/thinkia
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

34. Karen McGrane
Focus: Content Strategy
Location: New York
Twitter: @karenmcgrane
Website: karenmcgrane.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

35. Jess McMullin
Focus: IA in the Public Sector
Location: Edmonton, AB
Twitter: @jessmcmullin
Website: www.citizenexperience.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

36. Peter Morville
Focus: Search, Findability
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Twitter: @morville
Website: findability.org
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

37. Soren Muus
Focus: Modeling systems
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Twitter: @sorenmuus
Website: sorenmuus.tumblr.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

38. Jeff Parks
Focus: Interviews & Podcasts
Location: Ottawa, CA
Twitter: @jeffparks
Website: www.followtheuxleader.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

39. Anders Ramsay
Focus: Agile UX
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Twitter: @andersramsay
Website: www.andersramsay.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

40. Eric Reiss
Focus: Customer Service, Business
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Twitter: @elreiss
Website: www.fatdux.com/blog
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

41. Andrea Resmini
Focus: Pervasive IA, Place-making, Education
Location: Jönköping, Sweden
Twitter: @resmini
Website: andrearesmini.com/blog
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

42. Lou Rosenfeld
Focus: Publishing, Search Analytics
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Twitter: @louisrosenfeld
Website: louisrosenfeld.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

43. Donna Spencer
Focus: Organizing Content, Intranets
Location: Canberra, Australia
Twitter: @maadonna
Website: donnaspencer.com.au
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

44. Jared Spool
Focus: User Research, Usability, Conferences
Location: ???
Twitter: @jmspool
Website: www.uie.com/brainsparks
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

45. Samantha Starmer
Focus: Holistic Customer Experience
Location: Seattle, WA
Twitter: @samanthastarmer
Website: ?
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

46. Don Turnbull
Focus: Quantitative IA
Location: Austin, TX
Twitter: @donturn
Website: donturn.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

47. Russ Unger
Focus: UX Process, Career Mentoring
Location: Chicago, IL
Twitter: @russu
Website: www.userglue.com/blog
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:
Coming soon!

48. Todd Zaki Warfel
Focus: Prototyping, Guerrilla Research
Location: San Francisco, CA
Twitter: @zakiwarfel
Website: zakiwarfel.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:
Coming soon!

49. Dan Willis
Focus: Solving Problems, Taking Risks
Location: Washington, DC
Twitter: @uxcrank
Website: www.dswillis.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

50. Christina Wodtke
Focus: Strategy, Leadership
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Twitter: @cwodtke
Website: www.eleganthack.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

51. Luke Wroblewski
Focus: Web Form Design, Mobile
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Twitter: @lukew
Website: www.lukew.com
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

52. Indi Young
Focus: Mental Models
Location: San Rafael, CA
Twitter: @indiyoung
Website: rosenfeldmedia.com/books/mental-models
Presentations, Books, & Other Goodies:

53. Conferences
meet your resources

54. Conferences
Interaction
IA Summit
Midwest UX

55. Local Activities
play with your resources

56. Local Activities
Seattle IA/UX
Content Strategy Seattle
SEATTLE
Find more local activities at: www.seattleuxevents.com

57. Free Stuff
lol moar resources

58. Free Stuff
Andrew Hinton’s amazing Linkosophy (and updated)
Russ Unger’s Career Workshop ’12 (2011), (2010)
Whitney Hess’ UX Designer Resources
Nick Finck’s Book List
Jorge Arango, Andrea Resmini, Andrew Hinton, and
Dan Klyn discuss Placemaking in IA
Dan Willis’ UX Deathmatch Video
A brief digression on Information Architecture from
Richard Saul Wurman

59. Jobs

60. KTHXBAI
pimpformationarchitect.com michaeladcock.info