Just ran across this — IAI runs a mentoring program:
The Mentoring Program matches experienced IA professionals (”mentors”) with practitioners, newcomers to the field, students, and anyone interested in being mentored (”protégés”).
This program is provided as a service to IAI members only. Mentors do not need to be members, but protégés do. If you are not already a member, you can join the Information Architecture Institute to participate as a protégé..
My friend Peter Merholz is asking people to help get the word out about the IDEA conference in Seattle Oct 23-4. I think it sounds terrific and quite relevant to iSchools. Registration is very reasonable — $250-500 before Aug 27 — kudos to the organizers for that!
IDEA 2006 brings together a diverse set of designers, creators, and researchers addressing a fundamental challenge we’re facing today - how to let everyday people take true advantage of the overwhelming mass of information that floods their lives.
There are currently many different kinds of folks working in this space, but they typically don’t talk with one another. For this event, we’ve made an effort to invite presenters across a stunning array of disciplines - museum design, information visualization, librarians, environmental design, user research, engineering, interaction design, product strategy, and more.
It’s important to recognize that this is not airy-fairy theoretical stuff. These presenters are practitioners, people actually doing this cross-channel, cross-media work with complex information. A primary goal of this conference is to give you the confidence to cross boundaries and engage with a wide range of problems.
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