This was funny…not sure what I’m agreeing to:

I’ve been working flat out as program chair for the IA Summit. So much has happened in the past few weeks:

• The new website is up (and looks fabulous)
• The conference program is available (check out the pre-conference workshops too)
• Registration is open
• Hotel booking is open
• The blog is ready to go

And I think it is time to have a rest.

(Of course, none of this is my work alone – just look at how many people are involved.)

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I was going to do a ‘year ahead’ post like Derek & Tuna. And I’ve been thinking about all the things I’d like to put in it.

But today I figured out what will really make my year work. Two seemingly tiny things:

1. Say no (sometimes) when people ask me to do work for them
2. Stop worrying about everyone else’s resource and skill problems

That’s it.

I meant to write a ‘year in review’ on or around new year but, for completely normal reasons (i.e. I’m overcommitted), didn’t get to it until today.

I don’t normally do one of these, but I had a ripper 2006 and would like to congratulate myself on:

• 5 IA workshops
• 10 presentations at 8 conferences/meetings (including my first keynote)
• IA and IxD work for 6 great clients
• Writing a large proportion of my card sorting book
• One article for Digital Web magazine
• One article for Boxes and Arrows
• My first podcast interview (on card sorting, of course)
• A very fun 10 questions
• Quitting university
• Many hours work planning the IA Summit
• Not enough hours working for the IAI board
• Just a few hours for the WIPA board
• A gazillion hours cleaning up spam
• Crying in front of an entire conference audience
• Finally uploading some photos to Flickr
• Discovering Second Life
• Making loads of new friends
• Not keeping in touch with my old ones very well
• Neglecting my website
• but designing and building some for my local community
• Completely neglecting my blog (71 posts, but I bet a lot are announcements)
• Getting even better at Visio
• Picked the first apricots from my orchard

And…still spending some time with my family (though not as much as they’d like).

Oh, I’m tired just thinking of it. I think I’ll post my ‘year ahead’ tomorrow night.

I’ve spent the evening house-cleaning – I’ve had so much blog-spam through that I killed my host’s server a couple of times.

Of course, in deleting spam, I’ve deleted some legit comments as well. I’m so sorry if I deleted one of yours! If you remember it, please re-comment and I promise I won’t delete it again.

I’ve been trying to get around to posting a ‘year in review/new years resolutions’ post, but spam is sucking all my spare time.