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May 8
I've added a couple of interesting speaking engagements in the past couple of weeks. In May I'll be talking about social media at the Canadian Association of Journalists national convention in Edmonton. And in September I'll be a keynote speaker at Enterprise Search Summit West in San Jose. I'm really looking forward to both events.
Here's where you'll find me over the next six months or so:
If you're going to any of these events, please say hi.
How to get a mouse in a beer bottle (Apr 26)
My son has recently taken an interest in talking like a hoser. And rather than explaining how that whole caricature came to be, I've been looking through the original sketches on YouTube. They're not as funny as they were--probably due...
Power struggle (Apr 24, with comments by Mack D. Male, Adrian, Gene, )
Our offices are under construction for the next few days. While most of our staff are working from home, I need to stay in touch with our contractors. So I've gone Bedouin, setting up my laptop in various coffee shops...
links for 2008-04-21 (Apr 21)
The Information Firehose, Lifestreams, and the Curse of Granularity - Own Your Identity (tags: joshua_porter lifestreams attention information overload)...
links for 2008-04-18 (Apr 18)
Pleasure and Pain >> IA Summit 2008: Gene Smith’s “Tagging: Five emerging trends” Good (but partial) write-up of my IA Summit talk. (tags: whitney_hess iasummit08 tagging presentation) Pleasure and Pain >> IA Summit 2008: “Presence, identity and attention in...
links for 2008-04-17 (Apr 17)
Captology Notebook: Attention through Status Message Update (SMU) "However, if your SMU is Provocative, Original, Real, or New (PORN) then you might start acquiring subscriptions exponentially..." (tags: presence attention status twitter facebook) Swimlanes for the Win! / nForm /...
My IA Summit Slides (Apr 16)
I've posted the slides of my IA Summit talk "Tagging: Five Emerging Trends" on SlideShare. I wrote out this talk in advance, so the slides were really just accompaniment. Still, I hope there's some value for those of you that...
links for 2008-04-15 (Apr 15)
Amazon Sales Rank Tracking Article on how to estimate actual sales based on Amazon Sales Rank (tags: amazon book salesrank publishing)...
Miami (Apr 10)
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Plug: Get $200 off Voices That Matter registration (Mar 24)
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Upcoming travel and speaking engagements (Mar 10)
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By day Gene Smith is a principal with nForm, one of Canada's leading user experience consulting firms. By night he writes about information architecture, interaction design, community, the web and other such topics. 
