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I am extremely pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Premix, an easy to use Python wrapper around the Best Buy Remix APIs. It is compatible with Google App Engine.
Changes in this version includes updated tests, the addition of extend() to add an ‘OR’ complement filter(), and new convenience properties on results, next and previous. Version 1.0 is backwards compatible with previous 0.9 versions.
The project’s main repository and wiki are hosted on bitbucket.org.
Tags: googleappengine, premix, python, remix
I am pleased to announce the 0.9.3 release of Premix, an easy to use Python wrapper around the Best Buy Remix APIs. It also runs on Google App Engine.
Changes in this version includes updated tests. Version 0.9.3 is backwards compatible with previous 0.9 versions.
The project’s main repository and wiki are hosted on bitbucket.org.
Tags: googleappengine, premix, python, remix
I’m speaking at the Women’s Leadership Exchange this Tuesday on behalf of Best Buy. I will be providing useful next steps for the session attendees about how to approach social media for their business. My goal with the session is to provide enough framework around the topic to help someone make use of it for their business.
It’s easy to get caught up in all of the tactics, after all social media is the new ‘shiny object’ that is fascinating everyone right now. However, I see its usefulness as a more long term set of possibilities of communication and interaction for business. I believe my audience to be looking for some basic understanding.
The most important principles include 3 simple steps:
If you are coming to the event and have a question you’d like me to answer in the session, please leave it in the comments.
I returned from the IA Summit a couple of weeks ago. It was an honor to serve as the on-the-ground co-chair at the event this year. As an organizer, I got to see the event from a different perspective than ever before. I really enjoyed being part of a team that brought the event to the community. It was the 10th anniversary of the event, which was an important milestone for the community. In my opinion, Samantha Bailey, did an amazing job of bringing the content together for an incredibly energizing event.
One thing that is very exciting to me is that I will get a chance to do it again this year. I will be the lead co-chair with Livia Labate serving as my co-chair. Livia and I have a ton of feedback to process and I see my biggest challenge as appropriately responding to the needs of this community. People are excited and want to have really valuable conversations. I see it as our challenge to do everything we can to enable, encourage, and create spaces for this to happen. I got some great ideas this year and hope to work with the advisory team I have put together to curate and facilitate a wonderful and enriching event for the community.
The highlights this year:
-The keynote speaker, Michael Wesch, anthropology professor from Kansas State University and creator of the YouTube sensation (it did better than Superbowl ads!) The Machine is Us(ing) Us.
His work is related to user experience design because he’s spending time observing. His work informs user experience. It was really thrilling to have him set the tone for the event.
-The amazing content from people in the community. Others have expounded on the sessions, so I’m including links below to summaries:
The IAS2009 twitter account has tried to repost as many as have come across the stream
Yahoo Search results for Blog Posts about IA Summit 2009
-Boxes and Arrows recording as much of it as possible and more coming…
-The chance to help the community.
-The closing plenary from Jesse James Garrett: IA Summit Closing Plenary
Thanks everyone for the trust and the opportunity to make a difference for the community, as I’ve said before it was an honor and a privilege.
Please contact me if you want to help next year when we gather in Phoenix (April 7-8 pre-cons, April 9-11 conference). If you have an idea for something you’d like to do, let me know I’m open to ideas, it’s a community event.
Tags: event, ia, IAS09, IAS2009, information architecture
I’m leaving for the Information Architecture Summit in Memphis today. I had the privilege of co-chairing the event with Samantha Bailey this year. This is the tenth year of the event and it is a premier event for Information Architects around the world. I’m honored that I had the chance to serve as Samantha’s back up chair person this year.
I’m looking forward to seeing many colleagues in Memphis. It’s a great opportunity for us to learn from each other and bring new techniques and problem solving ideas back to work for the benefit of our clients.
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