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World Usability Day at The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH, USA)November 3
November 13, 20084:30 pmto8:00 pm

November 13, 2008 at the OSU Digital Union

*New meeting room this year. In Room 060 in the Engineering & Science Library at OSU

Overview
OSU Digital Union and the Columbus, Ohio Usability Professionals’ Association will host a World Usability Day event on November 13, 2008 in Room 060, Science and Engineering Library at Ohio State. This year’s event will include:

- Professional Networking for Campus and Columbus Area Professionals
- Panel Discussion with Local Experts: “Making Transportation Easy” is the theme.
- Featured Speaker Topic is “Today’s Mobile Workforce - Working Collaboratively with Virtual Teams”

World Usability Day is focused on TRANSPORTATION in 2008. With the challenge of rising gas prices, security issues, infrastructures and much more, globally, the transportation industry is facing ongoing change. This year’s theme could not be timelier. With those changes come many usability opportunities and challenges.

Schedule
4:30 pm    OSU Transportation Panel Discussion – “Making Transportation Easy: What is being done to make transportation easier?”
5:30 pm    Professional Networking/Reception sponsored by Columbus, Ohio Columbus, Ohio Usability Professionals’ Association (COUPA) Chapter
6:15 pm    Keith Tatum, Senior User Experience Strategist and Principal of Slingthought, “Today’s Mobile Workforce - Working





Who invited the copywriter? (Columbus, OH, USA)September 9
September 18, 20086:30 pmto9:00 pm

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Social Hour: 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Presentation: 7:30 p.m.–9 p.m.

Location: Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art & Design

Members: $5.00 (Professional + Faculty); Non-Members: $15.00

Student Members: FREE
Student; Non-Members: $5.00

Columbus Society of Communicating Arts (http://cscarts.org) is pleased to welcome Wayne Geyer as their next guest speaker.Wayne Geyer is a designer, award-winning copywriter and anti-cilantro activist — understands the whole left-brain/right-brain thing. Not in so many words, but enough to talk to designers about it in his Write More Good: Copywriting for Visual Thinkers workshops and presentations.

Now he’s coming to CCAD’s Canzani Center to demystify the process of copywriting for design professionals. Don’t like that header copy or the business-talk bullet points? Wayne Geyer feels your pain. The rare designer-turned-award-winning-copywriter, he’s been there, written that. A self-proclaimed “commercial translator,” Geyer has done battle with the business jargonauts and emerged scathed but still breathing. His clients range from Mothers Against Drunk Driving to the Dallas Cowboys, Dr Pepper to American Airlines. Along the way, he’s earned kudos from Communication Arts, HOW Magazine, Print, the ADDYs and the Dallas Society of Visual Communications.

Geyer’s work includes brand de




Cuil.com and Search Engine Optimization (Lewis Center, OH, USA)August 19
August 27, 20087:30 amto9:30 am

Ohio Web Leaders will be hosting a networking breakfast on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 for all marketing and business professionals. The topic will be current happenings in the search engine world. One of the hottest topics is the emergence of the new search engine, “Cuil.”

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Location: Little Bear Golf Club
Food: Continental breakfast catered by Sandman Catering
Sponsors: Minds On, Inc., Webbed Marketing & PrintSource Group

Click to Register for this event:
http://www.ohiowebleaders.com/events/register.html

The breakfast is sure to offer great networking opportunities for all who attend and provide insight into the most recent changes in the web marketing arena. To attend the breakfast, please register below.

Who Should Attend?
The breakfast is perfect for Marketing Managers, Product Marketing, Marketing Communications, Web Developers, Business Owners or Marketing Executives.

What is the Cost?
There is no cost to register and breakfast will be complimentary.

Where?
The Little Bear Golf Club is located on the west side of S. Old State Road between E. Powell Road and Orange Road, minutes north of Polaris Fashion Place Mall.

1940 Little Bear Loop
Lewis Center, OH 43035
740-548-8532











Java Talk (Columbus, OH, USA)August 19
August 28, 20087:30 amto8:30 am

Columbus AMA networking event

Please join us on the morning of Thursday, August 28, for coffee, conversation, and networking. This event is free and open to all AMA members and students.

Location: Panera Bread - Bethel Road, 875 Bethel Rd, Columbus, OH 43214, USA

When: Thursday August 28th, 2008

RSVP: http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=ef4d5af2-2e8c-48cb-b0db-111b9f3fa070

RSVP By: Monday August 25th, 2008Columbus AMA Member

Price: Free

Brand Design (Columbus, OH, USA)August 1
August 21, 20086:30 pmto9:00 pm

Columbus Society of Communicating Arts (CSCA) is pleased to welcome Debbie Millman as their next guest speaker. Join the fun as she brings branding and design to life.

Debbie Millman, president of the design division at Sterling Brands, host of Design Matters and board member of the national AIGA, brings her own brand of acute observation, wry wit and provocative design insight.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Social Hour: 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Presentation: 7:30 p.m.–9 p.m.
Location: Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art & Design

CSCA Members: $5.00 (Professional + Faculty)
Non-Members: $15.00
Student Members: FREE
Student Non-Members: $5.00

Curious, opinionated, keenly observant and always thought-provoking, Debbie Millman is partner and president of the design division at internationally acclaimed brand-identify firm Sterling Brands. She’s also a board member of the national AIGA, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Fashion Institute of Technology. When she’s not hosting the weekly Internet talk show Design Matters, she’s blogging, writing a column f