IDPF Digital Book 2013- The Evolving Digital Book: 4 Visionary Perspectives
Electric Incunabula
May 29th, New York, NY
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The separation of content from container affords publishers and developers an enormous creative opportunity. What was once ‘book content’ now can be delivered by well designed, open ended, interactive experiences. In the post-book era, readers become users, navigating the frontier from their armchairs via a seamless collusion of multimedia assets. In the post-book era, user-centered interaction design will pave the way for new content shapes, novel experiences, fresh business models, and a revitalized industry.
SHIFT Deluxe at WebVisions
Designing Digital Contexts for Social Awareness
May 24th, Portland, OR
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Exprima Media is currently partnering with Fork Films to develop an innovative form of documentary story telling. Fork Films is in the early stages of preproduction on Awakening – a two-hour special about the courageous women who played crucial roles in the Arab Spring uprisings. The film will not exist on its own, however. Instead, we are crafting an entire digital context for this work leveraging web and mobile platforms. This will not be a simple digital extension of the film – our digital context is designed to be a sustainable and ever-fresh source of actionable education on the film’s important topics. Also, by envisioning the entire digital context during preproduction, the artists at Fork Films are able to produce digital-first assets while filming the feature.
American Society for Indexing - Closing Keynote
Returning Aboutness: Front-loading the Index
April 19, 2013, San Antonia, TX
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Too often, users must rely on search and high-level navigation to make their way through digital experiences. In many of these cases, a well-designed index at the front of the experience would be a powerful tool. In so doing, we can return aboutness to our digital documents and experiences. It’s time to innovate the index and the interaction design of navigation.
O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing
Armchair Astronauts: Designing for the Post-Book Era
10:35 AM, Thursday, February 14, 2013, New York, NY
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The separation of content from container affords publishers and developers an enormous creative opportunity. What was once ‘book content’ now can be delivered by well designed, open ended, interactive experiences. In the post-book era, readers become users, navigating the frontier from their armchairs via a seamless collusion of multimedia assets. In the post-book era, user-centered interaction design will pave the way for new content shapes, novel experiences, fresh business models, and a revitalized industry.
You can see the slides at Slideshare. And here is a nice write-up.
O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing (Mini TOC)
Keynote Speech - From Caves to Clouds: The Journey to Contentopia
9:00 am Saturday, October 20, 2012, Vancouver, BC
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You can see the slides at Slideshare. Also, here's an excellent write-up.
From cave paintings to 17th century libraries to the internet, the history of content is a history of the tensions between archive and access, curation and comprehensiveness. This is a brief talk about the 'history of content' followed by a brainstorm activity about its future.
O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing
Designing the Digital Means: The New Role of the Publisher in the 21st Century
February 13-15, 2012, New York, NY
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The florescence of interactive platforms offers publishers a unique opportunity. Publishers, as content providers, must now distribute their content in unique interactive contexts. We advocate that publishers should actively produce these contexts themselves. Through good brainstorming, user-centered design, and the application of interaction design principles, publishers can lead us into an era of progressive e-reading design. By designing the means of digital distribution, publishers can themselves provide effective curated experiences.
Books in Browsers 2011: Beautiful Books
Electric Incunabula: A plea and a plan for progressive interactive book design
October 27, 2011, San Francisco
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Presented by Internet Archive and O'Reilly Media with generous support from Safari Books Online, this one day invite-only conference focusses on what it means to design something distributed, yet coherent, that makes people think: "wow, that's a beautiful thing".
Let's Talk Coffee
Facilitating technology discussions and panels
October 13-16, 2011, El Salvador
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Let's Talk Coffee is Sustainable Harvest's annual training event bringing together hundreds of specialty coffee suppliers, roasters, financiers, and others to learn from one another about the latest innovations in coffee. Stakeholders from all parts of the supply chain will discuss business challenges and market strategies, and calibrate coffee quality standards.
Technology Salon (Sponsored by the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation)
Tablet Technology for Global Development: A Discussion
September 15th, 2011, Washington DC
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Corey will engage participants in a discussion about the potential use of tablets in international development scenarios.