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SUMMARY:Call for Speakers - Conference: November 2007
LOCATION:Portland, Maine, USA
DESCRIPTION:We're pulling together the User Experience track for Maine's 15
 th Annual Information Technology Conference to be held in Portland, Maine -
  November 7, 2007.
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\n**Submit your proposal: August 16-24, 2007**
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\nL
 ooking for speakers for three 90-minute sessions on topics within the vastn
 ess of our collective professions (UX, IxD, IA, UI, ID, UCD, CHI, etc.)
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 \nBeing Responsible UX Professionals From The Great State of Maine™ we aske
 d a cross-section of last year's conference attendees and avoidees what the
 y want to learn...they said:
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\n*      Skills (wireframing, prototyping, 
 use case scenarios, personas, usability testing, documentation)
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\n*     
  Emerging trends/current innovations: (agile design, RIA)
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\n*      Multi
 -platforming & multi-mediuming
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\n*      Impact of web 2.0/3.0 on IA/usab
 ility/interaction/experience design
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\n*      Ethnographic research, and 
 innovative useful research techniques
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\n*      Developments in search, S
 EO, findability, navigation, organization of information
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\n*      Value 
 proposition of UX, strengthening UX/partnerships within your company
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\n*
       Relationships among visual design, usability, information design, inf
 ormation architecture, etc.
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\nAlmost nothing's off limits—tales of succe
 ss, failure, learning, joy, woe. Give us thought-provoking, fresh, useful, 
 practical, workable, radical, tested, testy, funny, fanciful, brain-cell-po
 pping, replicable, and/or meaningful.
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\nLink to Speaker Proposal form ht
 tp://www.formassembly.com/forms/45727
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\n**please let us know initial int
 erest by August 24th**
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\nWe'd love if you'd come up to Maine, be our gue
 st at the conf (and dinner the night before), and speak to the Maine UX Cog
 noscenti™, new recruits and coverts. At last year's conference, the UX Trac
 k was by far the most popular and well-attended--with Steve Krug drawing in
  150 of the 200 attendees! Come be an extra big fish in an extra cool li'l 
 pond...
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\nThanks for your consideration - if you have questions, drop us
  a line!
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\nSusan Doran
\nsusandoran@gmail.com
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