« Back to Viget Events One Afternoon: July 17 — Falls Church, VA — $249
It's tempting to follow the lead of mainstream social networks and applications when you bring social principles to your organization, but it seldom works out as planned. Firewalls, organizational structures, training, and interaction with direct customers are all too common hinderances.
This workshop, led by InfoCloud's Thomas Vander Wal, focuses on building, deploying, and using social tools inside (and outside) organizations based on deep understanding of the foundations of social tools and how people interact with each other using them. We'll work through tools (features and functionality), user experience (ease of use), sociality (how people interact with each other), and encouraging use.
While the design and human interaction problems involved are often overlooked and not well understood, this workshop will provide models and frameworks that can help you think through these problems and find success for your organizations and clients.
Who Are We?
While the User Experience group here at Viget does a lot of training and presenting itself, we're constantly learning great things from others in our field too. We're bringing in speakers who are world-renowned experts in their respective focuses, and opening the workshop up to the public for all to share.
Think of it as one of those pricey conference workshops, with the hands-on learning, small groups, and lots of interaction, but without the huge price tag, travel, and time commitment.
When
July 17th, 2009 - Registration starts at 1:00pm, and we'll wrap up around 5:30pm. Afterward, we'll head out for a drink to continue the conversation.
Registration - $249
Where
Just 15 minutes from Washington, D.C. - Get driving directions »
Viget Labs Headquarters, 400 S. Maple Avenue, Suite 200, Falls Church, VA 22046
By Metro: East Falls Church (Orange Line) is a bit over a mile away from Viget. Buses (below) run from EFC to spots nearer the office.
By bus: the 2A/B/C/G lines drop off at Elevation Burger (one block from us), and the 3A/B lines drop off just a few blocks away.
The Trainer
Thomas Vander Wal is an analyst, strategist, advisor and popular speaker on social tagging/folksonomy, social web, social intranets/enterprise, and web applications around well structured information. He helps organizations better understand the benefits, values derived, and how to best approach deploying the new social tools inside organizations to fill gaps in their existing tool offerings. He is often recognized as the person who coined the term ‘folksonomy’ in 2004, as well as some of his other terms and conceptual concepts: Elements of Social Software, Perceptions Matrix, Personal InfoCloud, Local InfoCloud, Come to Me Web, digital model of attraction etc.
Thomas is principal, and senior consultant at InfoCloud Solutions, a social computing consulting firm. Thomas has been working professionally on the web since 1995 (with professional IT background beginning in 1988) and has breadth and depth across many roles and disciplines around web design, social web development & research and general web development.
Publications
Thomas is currently writing a book for O’Reilly Publishing titled, "Understanding Folksonomy". He helped found the Information Architecture Institute and Boxes & Arrows web magazine and is currently part of the Web Standards Project.