Building IA means building local groups
Stacy Merrill Surla · Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 2007
by Stacy Merrill Surla d been struggling for years to build "I' online communities for information architecture and user experience," said Javier Velasco, an information architect working in Santiago, ChilC."Why were people so excited about doing things when we talked in person, but when I followed up later via email, nothing happened?Only this year I arrived at the conclusion that there's a strong cultural framework in my country where faceto-face contact is fundamental."Almost 6,000 miles away, Jason Hobbs deals with different obstacles to building IA community."When the dot