Thank you ClickTale for your continued sponsorship of the i.a. podcast! Finally a web analytics tool that provides context to data including the ability to watch movies of visitor behavior, as well as Scrolling Heat Maps, Form Analytics and many more features to help your organization make intelligent decisions to improve the User Experience of your site.

Idea 2009 Social and Experience Design is coming to Toronto – first time north of the border speakers include Leisa Reichelt, Christina Wodtke, Luke Wrobluski, Christian Crumlish, Nathan Curtis and many more.

You can hear presentations from last year where Idea was in Chicago over on boxes and arrows podcast.

Registration for UX Australia is up and running! Steve and Danielle Baty, Donna Spencer, and Andrew Boyd have put together an incredible line up of speakers including: Daniel Szuc a past guest on the i.a. podcast where we talked about UX in China, Gerry Gaffney from the User Experience Podcast, Will Evans, Alex Wright Director of UX and Product Research at the NY Times and author of Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages and many many more.

A big thanks to Johnny Holland for inviting to me to share ideas on that great webzine! My first article is due to publish early next week and includes a video of sharing a framework about how we can move our conversations in the UX communities back to the people for whom we are designing, rather than getting hung up on definitions and titles.

Interaction ‘10 is ramping up with that conference coming in February 2010 to Savannah, Georgia. I’m looking forward to future conversations with Jennifer Bove and Bill DeRouchey about what they are working hard at creating. Shaping up to be the best IxDA conference to date!

UXPanama is coming up as well! Jorge Arango, current President of the IAI is putting together the UX conference in Panama. You can check out videos up on YouTube put together in part by BootStudio Jorge’s UX design group in Panama.

On today’s show I chat with Chris Pallé about The UX Workshop. We talk about our work and the generous support of various communities of practice and individuals who have supported our efforts to date. This is a light-hearted discussion about how we got started, where we’re at now, and our genuine desire to engage the global UX community in conversations and sharing ideas.

We genuinely want the community to help us build The UX Workshop and look forward to helping people around the world move from theory to understanding by sharing experiences.