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.

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