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The Information Architecture Institute partners with other organizations to advance its mission. (If you are looking for the people who lead the Institute, go to our People page.) Partnerships may include agreements to exchange resources, interoperate technically, and act together to form a community of people and ideas.

Interested in becoming a sponsor or a partner? We consider specific proposals that tangibly benefit both your organization and the Institute. Send us your proposal.

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Intuitect is proud to be an official sponsor of the Information Architecture Institute. At Intuitect our mission is to create tools and methodologies that help information architects and user experience designers build better web sites and web applications.

Our flagship product, Intuitect Professional, integrates the process of creating sitemaps, wireframes, and process flows, and generates both HTML prototypes and specifications documentation. With features to streamline IA and UX design work Intuitect Professional reduces time to create deliverables critical to project success and enables you to be more creative.

For more information about Intuitect Professional including Webinars, interactive tutorials and to try Intuitect Professional free for 14-days visit us at: http://www.intuitect.com.

Organizing and classifying information can be tough. OptimalSort can help.

OptimalSort helps you understand users' perspectives on your content. Using card sorting, you can better organize information so that it is easier to find.

OptimalSort is card sorting made easier and more powerful than before.

As part of a benefit partnership, the IA Institute has negotiated a special discount of 25% with OptimalSort for our members. For details contact membership [at]iainstitute[dot]org. You can also login to our member center and visit the Shop IAI link.

Prices:
30 day subscription $109 USD, IAI member price $81.75 USD
90 day subscription $199 USD, IAI member price $149.25 USD
Annual subscription $559 USD, IAI member price $419.25 USD

IDEA 2008 Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Agency.com is our exclusive Platinum sponsor for the IDEA Pre-conference on October 6. Thank you Agency.com for helping to present this excellent workshop.

The IA Institute welcomes Aquent as a Platinum level sponsor of the IDEA Conference.

Aquent is the world's leading traditional and web marketing and design staffing agency, with 68 offices in 16 countries. We match professionals with freelance, contract, try-before-you-hire, and full-time job opportunities at top organizations. http://www.aquent.com

Boxes and Arrows is a Platinum sponsor for IDEA 2008. Thank you Boxes and Arrows for supporting our conference.

Boxes and Arrows is an online journal dedicated to understanding the design of the architecture and structure of digital spaces, and often features articles on the craft of information architecture.

IAI is proud to welcome Comcast Interactive as the first platinum sponsor of the 2008 IDEA Conference.

IAI welcomes Draftfcb as a very special Platinum sponsor of the IDEA Conference.

Launched in 2006, Draftfcb is a modern agency model for clients seeking creative, accountable marketing programs that build business and deliver a high Return on IdeasTM. With more than 130 years of combined expertise, the company has its roots in both consumer advertising and behavioral, data-driven direct marketing. The agency is the first global, behavior-based, fully inclusive, highly creative and accountable marketing communications organization to operate against a single P&L. The Draftfcb network spans 97 countries, with more than 9,600 employees worldwide, and is part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG). The agency’s global corporate leadership team includes Howard Draft, chairman and CEO; Laurence Boschetto, president and COO; Jonathan Harries, worldwide chief creative officer; and Neil Miller, CFO. For more information, visit www.draftfcb.com.

IAI is proud to announce Manifest Digital as the exclusive host of IDEA's opening night reception.

Manifest Digital is a uniquely integrated next-generation agency. Founded in the principles of customer-centered design, we have evolved our heritage to incorporate the right mix of once disparate skills: business strategy, brand, marketing, interactive, usability, and technology. We communicate with each other and our clients in a build-to-think process that employs user-centered methods in new ways. The result is innovative--from evolutionary to revolutionary--depending our client’s market needs. Build a better website, create vibrant online communities, or tightly integrate multi-channel marketing. Use our custom marketing platform or your own technical foundations. Regardless of your specific need, Manifest Digital will close the distance between you and your customer.

IAI is proud to welcome Roundarch as a platinum level sponsor of IDEA.

Roundarch is a leading provider of user-centric Web design and technology services specializing in the synergy between user experience and application development to solve complex issues for large organizations. Clients include Fortune 500 companies and government agencies such as Motorola, The Hershey Company, Avis, A&E Networks and the United States Air Force. Founded in 2000, Roundarch has offices in New York, Chicago and Boston. For more information please visit www.roundarch.com.

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Gold Sponsors

Bloomberg is the leading global provider of financial data, news and analytics. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service media services provide real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and communications tools in a integrated package to corporations, news organizations, financial and legal professionals and individuals around the world.

FatDux is a Gold sponsor of the IDEA Conference.

The IxDA is a member-supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community. With the help of more than 1,500 members worldwide, we provide a forum for the discussion of interaction design issues.

Mad*Pow is a Gold sponsor for IDEA 2008. Thank you Mad*Pow for supporting our conference.

Mad*Pow is an experience design studio that partners with industry leaders to create intuitive websites, internal systems, applications and interactive media. Our user-centered and business-aligned methodology merges the science of human factors with the art of digital design to create unique and easy to use experiences. Visit us at the IDEA Conference and at www.madpow.net.

Sapient Interactive is a Gold sponsor of the IDEA Conference. Visit their booth at the IDEA conference.

What does it mean to be the largest independent interactive agency in the world? Besides everything you’d expect – award-winning creative, genius marketing, technology prowess - it means people come to Sapient because they share an all-embracing desire to do things differently. To never feel like it’s an assembly line. To do groundbreaking work on a daily basis. That’s why Sapient Interactive is powered by some of the most original, ambitious interactive professionals you’re likely to meet. It’s an ideal environment for the entrepreneurially minded. Sound like you? Then we should probably talk. www.sapient.com/careers.

TandemSeven is a gold sponsor of IDEA. Visit their booth at the conference.

TandemSeven designs, architects and builds user interfaces for world-class business applications and portals. We specialize in creating usable, intuitive interfaces for complex global applications. Headquartered in the greater Boston area, TandemSeven has designed and developed usable applications for numerous global companies, including 1-800-FLOWERS, Campbell Soup Company, Citi, FXall, Hasbro, LeapFrog Enterprises, Morgan Stanley, Orbitz Worldwide and Siemens Corporation. Visit us at www.tandemseven.com.

Silver Sponsors

interactions is a Silver sponsor for IDEA 2008. Thank you interactions for supporting our conference.

Peachpit Press is a Silver sponsor for IDEA 2008. Thank you Peachpit for supporting our conference.

Rosenfeld Media is a Silver Sponsor of the IDEA Conference.

Rosenfeld Media publishes short, practical, and useful books on user experience design. Our books explain the design and research methods that web professionals need to make informed design decisions. Visit them at rosenfeldmedia.com.

IAI thanks Rosenfeld Media for its support!
Visit the IDEA conference website for information on sponsorship or contact idea2008 [at]iainstitute[dot] org to become a sponsor today.

Our Partners

The American Society for Information Science and Technology's Information Architecture SIG is the home of the SIG-IA mailing list and the ASIST Bulletin. The Bulletin's IA Column, edited by IAI board member Stacy Surla, features guest writers from the field of IA. Visit their site to read the current IA Column.

Boxes and Arrows is an online journal dedicated to understanding the design of the architecture and structure of digital spaces, and often features articles on the craft of information architecture.

CMSWatch.com provides an independent source of information, trends, opinion, and analysis about Web Content Management (WCM). The site also includes intelligence about related technologies, such as XML, digital asset management, and content syndication.

The IA Wiki is a collaborative, open discussion space for the topic of information architecture.

The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is a non-profit professional organization whose focus is promoting both the field of interaction design and the interests of an international community of practitioners, managers, educators, and students of interaction design.

The University of Baltimore School of Information Arts and Technologies offers an M.S. in Interaction Design and Information Architecture. We are excited to be collaborating on the Education Curriculum initiative.

The Web Indexing SIG of the American Society of Indexers promotes the human indexing of Web sites and HTML documents. Its members are professional indexers who have skills to create A-Z site indexes or perform metadata indexing of HTML documents. The SIG web site provides resources on web site indexing for the broader IA community.

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