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While I was unemployed I was allowed to select and follow a free 6 week course – I chose to join a course on project management. In my point of view, understanding project management is a very important part of being an information architect. I believe it is important that the information architect is able to bridge the gap between decision makers, developers and users.
As we in Denmark follow the “Daylight saving time” we had/have to move back the clock back one hour at 3.00 am in order to return to “normal time”. I do like the fact that this mean that we get one more hour for sleeping because of this change in time but I must admit that I think it is stupid to change the clock back and forward every year.
Today I am very happy to announce and present my whole new relaunched website. The work on this relaunch have been in the work for more than a year as you may read in some of my former posts. It is therefore something that I have spend a lot time on planning and considering before I got to the current design and structure.
My last post was written two weeks before the hand-in of my master thesis and I must admit that quite a lot development happened to the thesis in those weeks. The main point here was that I had to develop an actual strategy that I could propose for Fokus Folkeoplysning.
The end of my master thesis is now quickly moving closer as there is about two weeks to the hand-in date (august 2nd). In the beginning of the week I finished the research phase of the report which of course will be the main part of the project. Since then I have been focusing on what all of this main research can be used for and how I can move towards the development of an actual strategy that I can present for Fokus Folkeoplysning.
It’s been awhile since my last post about my master thesis (about 3 months). It is not because nothing has happened during this time but rather that I at times forgot to do it and that I could not find the time required for making a new post. After all it is a lengthy process to prepare and write these long posts (this post have been a work in progress for about two weeks). That being said I also find it rewarding to write them as it forces me to put words to the current state of my master thesis 
This weekend I attended a workshop in which those attending were to develop visions about the future of the family organization that we have. This is for sure a weekend that I will remember as something good, it was inspiring and quite nice to talk about frustrations and ideas in order to generate ideas on what we want to do with the organization in the future.
This is a rather long post but to sum up I since my last post have focused on the stakeholder part. I have been writing on the theory part of the stakeholder analysis for my report. And I have conducted the first stakeholder interview. Furthermore I have exceeded my original schedule and therefore need to create a new one that accounts for the issues that I have experienced so far.
Based on my fifth semester project my supervisor (Jeni Paay) and semester coordinator (Jesper Kjeldskov) that both research within the field of augmented reality decided to use our project for the basis of the paper called “Bjørnetjeneste: Using the city as a backdrop for location-based interactive narrative”. The paper has now been accepted and will be released in a book called “From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen” which will be released by MIT press in 2011.
It’s been a couple of days since my last post about my master thesis and naturally some things have happened since then. I got a supervisor assigned and then had a good supervisor meeting, and now I am currently reading different materials and planning the initial interviews.