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Archive for October, 2006

Web Directions North - Super Early Bird Tickets Now Available

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• October 27th, 2006

After months of feverish behind-the-scenes work, putting together a killer program, an amazing lineup of speakers, working on dates, venues, the site, a registration system and more, Web Directions North is now officially open for registrations. After a fantastic conference in Sydney, we are really excited to ...

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More podcasts and resources online

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• October 17th, 2006

As promised, as they come to hand, more of our podcasts are going online. We've just uploaded, Ben Barren's "RSS will change everything" and Thomas Vander Wal's "Information architecture for the come to me web". Follow this link to subscribe to our RSS feed for the podcasts. We also have ...

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Laurel Papworth - upcoming courses

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• October 12th, 2006

One of the meany fabulous local speakers at Web Directions this year was Laurel Papworth (whose collection of user generated video content was fantastically entertaining, but whose presentation on building online communities was all the more interesting) is giving two courses in the coming weeks. If they look remotely relevant ...

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Web 2.0 T Shirt Competition - Winners!

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• October 11th, 2006

We had to do a bit of deliberating on this, and between myself and John and REMO there was certainly some controversy. Thanks firstly to all those who entered, and all those who wore their t shirts to the conference. After many heated arguments and soul searching we decided that the ...

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Podcasts and more coming online

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• October 10th, 2006

Now we've all had a little time to recover after the whirlwind of the conference (one day I hope to be able to just relax and enjoy it) we are putting together the resources that emerged from all the marvellous speaker's sessions. The first two of our podcasts, recorded and edited ...

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Announcing the McFarlane Prize winners

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• By: john
• October 4th, 2006

Last Thursday, at the end of day 1 of the conference, we announced the winners of the inaugural McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design. We were very honoured to have Nigel McFarlane's parents at the ceremony, and the Prize was awarded by Nigel's sister, Colleen. Congratulations to the web development ...

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Web Directions and Web Standards Group presents Jeremy Keith in Melbourne this Thursday

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• October 2nd, 2006

Fresh from sellout shows in Sydney, Ireland's best export since Guinness, Jeremy Keith will be appearing for one night only, in Melbourne, presented by Web Directions and the Web Standards Group. Centre for Innovation & Technology Commercialisation Level 1, 257 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 For more info and to RSVP, see the ...

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