The document outlines the challenges and goals of the IxDA digital community, highlighting a need for improved user engagement and organization within their mailing list. It discusses initiatives to restructure their website, enhance visibility of content, and foster community interaction through various projects led by a small team. Key areas of focus include increasing member contributions, job opportunities, and high-quality content, while addressing the overwhelming volume of emails experienced by members.

1. The new IxDA Digital Community Luke Wroblewski, IxDA IA Summit 2006 03-14-2006

2. What we got today [email_address] 2600 global subscribers Probably under 200 active contributors Great discussion Lots of knowledge embedded in the archives but no organization Poor user experience Not a lot of options for different types of user interactivity Announcement List 1200 subscribers Low volume Only single looking glass Very difficult to enable larger group to have posting rights Limited Regional Announcement Lists See above

3. More of our situation More consumption of discussion list content than contribution Difficult (& not necessary) to turn consumers into creators How do we enable curators to help us improve our content and its consumption? Many members overwhelmed by quantity of emails on list Can we provide alternatives to email list (RSS, Web participation)? IxDA Web site does not showcase the content or the vitality of our mailing list The list is our biggest concentration of knowledge and people! Survey indicates members love the list content But it is not visible to our external audience Great content is being lost in the list archives (in people’s inboxes, etc.)

4. Big Picture Goals for IxDA

5. Big Picture for the Community

6. Enter Jeff Howard

7. Project was created A project plan is being monitored by the IxDA Board 4 person lean team with support where needed (they are all located in the same metro-area and meet in person regularly) Jeff Howard Luke Wroblewski Micah Alpern Frank Ramirez Project set to release by end of November Gotta give some leeway due to volunteer efforts. Running with tight phased efforts

8. Goals of Project IxDA Build comprehensive knowledge set about interaction design Grow our community Members Grow reputation in the interaction design community Jobs Learn from practitioners High quality content: improve signal to noise ratio

9. What research have we done? Persona Development – Some are located at ixda.org/en/about_ixdg/ Surveys – Maybe you even participated Discussion list survey Announcement list survey

10. Complete Web Site restructuring

11. For the new Home Page What is Interaction Design & Why should I care? What is IxDA and why should I care? Show Vitality of our organization Discussion List activity Local f2f events Get Involved Subscribe to list Donations & Sponsors Volunteer Opportunities Dive into content Topics: Jobs, Education, Local Groups, etc.

12. Initial Topics Jobs Education Events Local Groups Patterns Methods Research Tools Announcements Doing Business [Will grow as needed]

13. Template Structure (frameworks) Apply to top-level categories Jobs, Local Groups, Education Leverage in reduced format for all categories & tags

14. What’s been done? – Home Page Wireframe

15. What’s been done? – Topic Page Wireframe

16. What’s been done? – Add RSS Feeds Full RSS feed including comments: http://dev.interactiondesigners.com/en/discuss/rss/ IxDA Topics cuts out all the comments, and only shows new topics: http://dev.interactiondesigners.com/en/discuss/rss/topics IxDA Popular topics that have had at least three different contributors in a short period of time http://dev.interactiondesigners.com/en/discuss/rss/popular IxDA Profile all the posts for a particular author http://dev.interactiondesigners.com/en/discuss/rss/profile?id=email IxDA Jobs Shows the newest jobs http://dev.interactiondesigners.com/en/discuss/rss/jobs

17. The future of the project … Second generation member profiles Featured members, self-identify as students Reputation system for members Calendaring for events Jobs 2.0 Career management; salary survey; job board 2.0 Online local F2F administration (blog?) Store Site-wide search Mailing List Maintenance “ Too much” email problem Requests for local or topic based mailing lists