Author Archives: Garrick Van Buren

Garrick runs Working Pathways Inc, a company helping businesses become more responsive by improving internal and customer communications through simple, useful web applications. When Garrick isn’t evangelizing podcasts, wikis, RSS, and weblogs, and he’s assisting clients including Target, Sam’s Club, Orbitz.com, and 3M with their business communications process, information architecture, and interaction design.

MinneDemo - 7pm Nov 12, 2008 @ Intermedia Arts, Lyndale & 28th

Save the Date.
More info forthcoming @ MinneDemo.org

Websota.com - Minnesota Web Design Gallery Launches

I love the MN design community. It’s filled with people that go out and build stuff to scratch their own itch. The latest example of this: Websota - built by the FiveTechnology team 1.
“Aaron Weiche of Five [Technology] wanted a home for the great web design work close to home here in Minnesota.”
There are […]

UnSummit 08

What’s the coolest thing about the MIMA Summit getting so popular it can’t hold everyone interested?
The creation of the UnSummit. Thanks to Don Ball for striking the match.
Update: An excellent UnSummit recap from Phil Wilson over at Minnov8

Fred Beecher Teaching Axure Training @ MPL, Oct 13-15 2008

MNteractive’s own Fred Beecher is offering a Basic and Advanced class on prototyping with Axure at the Minneapolis Public Library in October.
They’re $599 each, and if you’re interested, sign up at http://axuretraining.eventbrite.com/

MNteractive Event Calendar for iCal, Google Calendar, etc

Pete from WolfMotell asked about offering the MNteractive events in hCal.
Seemed like a good opportunity to remind you that all the events are available in an iCal.app and Google Calendar compatible url: http://mnteractive.com/wp-ical.php
For iCal, Go to: Calendar -> Subscribe and enter in the above url.
For Google Calendar, Click ‘Add’ in ‘Other Calendars’, then ‘Add […]

The Unofficial Minneapolis Mobile User Experience Week

As coincidence would have it, next week we have two local events - both admission free - covering the ‘mobile’ internet.
First, on the advertising side is Space150’s Mobile Marketing Workshop, it’s all afternoon on Monday Aug 11th with presentations from lots-o-places including; Nokia, Weather.com, and Yahoo!.
Then, on Tues we’re having the regular MNteractive User Experience […]

BrainTraffic Wants an Experienced Information Architect

Everything you need to know is in the headline.
In fact, because you’re such an awesome information architect - you know why you’d want to work there, who to contact, and how to contact them.

Remix MPR at PublicRadioCamp - July 12th, 2008 MPR HQ , St. Paul

Latest word from Dan Grigsby on the upcoming PublicRadioCamp

We’re pleased to announce that Jon Gordon, host of Future Tense, American Public Media’s technology broadcast heard on over 100 stations nationwide, will be joining us.
We’ve tallied up the resources we’ll have to play with, remix, and generally use as building blocks. These include 37 RSS […]

[Job] CaringBridge.org Wants an Interactive Marketing Manager

CaringBridge.org, the weblog slash social network provider targeted at connecting friends and family during times of critical illness, is looking for an Interactive Marketing Manager.
For your convenience, I’ve culled the 50-line job description to:
responsible for: search marketing, SEO, web site optimization, online advertising, social networks and blogs, viral marketing and grassroots events marketing, analysis of […]

The Price of Prototyping Tools

Locally, there are passionate fans of iRise and Axure. Personally, I haven’t used either - too many deal breakers on both sides.
The latest deal breaker, iRise Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Axure Software Solutions 10 weeks after it receives a software patent (a questionable idea itself). Awesome.
Let’s say, iRise wins: eradicating Axure and leaving […]