Welcome slides for Nov 2009 BayCHI monthly meeting

1. Welcomes You
November 10, 2009

2. Tonight’s program…
Visualizations of Our Collective Lives
 S. Joy Mountford, Exploratorium
(Ab)using Identifiers:
Indiscernibility of Identity
 Ben Gross, University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign

3. Tonight’s speakers…
Joy Mountford is an Osher Fellow of the
Exploratorium
Ben Gross is a doctoral candidate of the
Graduate School of Library and
Information Science at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

4. For all the updated information
you need about BayCHI, visit…
www.baychi.org

5. Join BayCHI…
 Visit the BayCHI web site at
www.baychi.org and click Join BayCHI
 Membership is just $20 for the first year
and $15 to renew

6. BayCHI Member Benefits
 Job Bank
 Consultants Directory
 Library
 BayCHI LinkedIn Group membership
 Tutorial discounts
 Monthly newsletter
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 Supporting the organization that brings you
outstanding programs, BOFs, and tutorials

7. Sign up for monthly meeting
announcements or the BayCHI
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8. Become part of the
BayCHI LinkedIn community…
 You must be a current member of BayCHI
 Go to www.linkedin.com/
 Also visit www.baychi.org/linkedin/ for more
details
News Flash: We have over 1000 BayCHI
members enrolled in the BayCHI LinkedIn
group!

9. BayCHI needs you…
 Volunteers make things happen!
 Most Urgent Volunteer Needs:
 Podcast Curator
 Podcast Copywriter
 Volunteer Co-Coordinators
 Web page copywriters
 Interested? Contact Stacie or Nancy at
volunteer@baychi.org

10. For all the updated information
you need about BayCHI, visit…
www.baychi.org

11. Tonight’s program…
Visualizations of Our Collective Lives
 S. Joy Mountford, Exploratorium
(Ab)using Identifiers:
Indiscernibility of Identity
 Ben Gross, University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign

12. Tonight’s speakers…
Joy Mountford is an Osher Fellow of the
Exploratorium
Ben Gross is a doctoral candidate of the
Graduate School of Library and
Information Science at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

13. Want to suggest a topic for a
BayCHI program meeting?
Contact the Program Planning Committee at
monthly-programs@baychi.org

14. BayCHI Tutorials
 Next proposed course:
 “Website design strategy and implementation”
• Bryan Zmijewski, Jeremy Britton and others,
ZURB
• Q1 2010 (exact dates and locations TBD)
 To propose a possible tutorial, contact:
 Jay Elkerton, jelkerton@baychi.org or
 Roeland van Krieken, rvankrieken@baychi.org
Visit http://www.baychi.org/tutorial/

15. BayCHI BOFs
 Active Birds-of-a-Feather groups for
BayCHI members and others
 Consultants
 Future Systems BOF
 Interaction Design
 Java Web Developer BOF
 Mobile Applications
 Usability Engineering
Visit www.baychi.org/bof

16. Upcoming BayCHI Events
BayCHI Interaction Design BOF Event
Persuasion for Designers
Speaker: Kim Goodwin
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 7:30-9:30 pm
Location: Yahoo!, Sunnyvale
Visit www.baychi.org/calendar

17. Do you know an industry
leader or have a topic to
present for a BOF meeting?
Contact a BOF leader at www.baychi.org/bof

18. BayCHI Library
 A service for BayCHI members only
 See our staff in the lobby to browse and
check out materials
 Visit www.baychi.org and click Library
for:
 our list of tutorial notes and videos
 how to reserve, borrow, and return
materials

19. BayCHI audio & visual recordings
are available…
 Did you miss a BayCHI meeting?
 Download the recordings directly or
subscribe to our podcast feed at
www.baychi.org/podcast/
 News Flash! BayCHI will be publishing
the backlog of podcasts soon. Stay
tuned to the podcast page for details

20. BayCHI Recording Policy
 Recording of this program meeting by
audience members is not permitted
 The new policy is on the program page at
www.baychi.org/program/

21. BayCHI Dinner
 Join us before the BayCHI meeting
 For information visit our web site at
www.baychi.org and click Dinner Info

22. Follow BayCHI
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 http://twitter.com/baychi
 On Facebook:
 http://tr.im/baychifb

23. BayCHI Podcasts and
Conversations Network
 News Flash! BayCHI podcasts are now
available via Conversations Network!
 For more details, see:
 http://chi.conversationsnetwork.org/
 We need additional volunteers to help
with this exciting effort:
 Podcast Curator
 Podcast Copywriter

24. December BayCHI Meeting
Tuesday, Dec. 8th, 7:30 – 9:30PM @ PARC
Is Design Thinking Relevant? A Two-Part Exploration
Part I: Aiming for Innovation: Living Design in a Business
world
Brynn Evans, User Researcher Consultant
Krista Sanders, Stone Cobra
Part II: Taming Complexity and Sparking Innovation
Through Ideation and Design Thinking
Gayle Curtis, Design Consultant
For more details, see:
http://www.baychi.org/