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2007 July | Web Directions

Archive for July, 2007

Web Trivia Night - places still open

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• July 29th, 2007

They've been filling fast, but there are still places available at the first Sydney Web Trivia Night on August 9. Brought to you by News Digital Media and Web Directions, come along to this free night of trivia where you'll definitely be in with a chance, as all the questions ...

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Scott Berkun - The Myths of Innovation

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• July 23rd, 2007

And yet another new speaker announced today. Scott Berkun will now be presenting the opening keynote on the morning of the second day of the conference this year. Scott comes from a project management background, working for Microsoft from 1994 to 2003. Since then he's started his own consulting ...

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Geek Trivia Night

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• July 22nd, 2007

Know who invented the Internet? Any ideas what WWW stands for? Clued up on who the first blogger was? If so, keep August 9th free, as News Digital Media and Web Directions are hosting a night of networking for fun and profit on August 9 at the Vault ...

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Social media and government 2.0 at Web Directions South this year

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• July 22nd, 2007

A while back I was browsing George Oates' blog when I came across a reference to a pioneering project happening right here in Australia at the Powerhouse Museum, where, to put it briefly, the collection has been opened to public contribution through tagging. The project, which has been widely ...

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Web Directions Speakers - Mark Pesce

• In: speakers
• By: john
• July 22nd, 2007

Last year's conference closed with what may just become something of a tradition, a keynote from Mark Pesce. Mark is one of the things the web seems to foster so well, a genuine polymath, whose "blog" hyperpeople (I hesitate to call it that because its really a collection of ...

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New addition to program - Javascript and other coding for good or evil

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• July 22nd, 2007

We're very pleased to announce an addition to our already full program for Web Directions South 2007 - Andrew Downie and Grant Focas from the DET's Centre for Learning Innovation will now be presenting a session on coding, and in particular the use of Javascript, for accessibility, in ...

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WA Web Awards - finalists announced

• In: events
• By: john
• July 19th, 2007

The finalists for the third WA Web Awards have just been announced. Last year, I was honoured to be asked to be one of the Judges, while this year, Maxine is one of the judges. We recently discussed just how high a standard across the board the entrants typically ...

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Writing for the Web

• In: events
• By: john
• July 19th, 2007

Organisations large and small are beginning to realise that writing for the Web is a specific challenge. Vision Australia is running a writing for the Web workshop in Perth toward the end of August, as well as a We Accessibility workshop. We've had VA speakers at Web Directions before (and ...

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Speakers in the news - Scott Gledhill

• In: speakers
• By: john
• July 19th, 2007

A new local speaker for 2007 is Scott Gledhill, from News Interactive. Well, Scott's a local now, though hails from near Vancouver in Canada. Scott's newsigh blog, http://standardzilla.com/ provides no nonsense opinion and idea on using standards in a corporate context, and he's just had a feature article published ...

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McFarlane Prize 2007 - nominations now open

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• July 16th, 2007

Nominations have just opened for the McFarlane Prize for 2007. This prize for excellence in Australian web design will be awarded to an Australian designer or team for a site launched or significantly upgraded between August 1 2006 and July 31 2007. The winner of the prize will be announced ...

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So much to learn, so little time

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• July 13th, 2007

OK, I'll be the first to admit to having played fast and loose with the law at various stages of my career. But, I've largely worked as an individual, or as part of a very small, under resourced organisation. There is no excuse at all for playing fast and loose when ...

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New workshop for September 25 - Beginning Ruby on Rails

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• July 8th, 2007

Maintaining what has become a tradition, we have a late addition to the Web Directions South Workshop program for this year: Dr Nic Williams will be hosting Beginning Ruby on Rails on Tuesday September 25. Anyone involved with the web would be aware of the phenomenal growth in popularity over ...

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Danah Boyd in Australia

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• July 3rd, 2007

If you have any interest at all in the future of online social networking, and in particular its implications for the education sector, don't miss this upcoming Education.AU seminar: Danah Boyd: Generation MySpace - Social networking and its impact on students and education Danah, an internationally recognised authority on the way ...

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Early bird finishes tomorrow at midnight, Andy Clarke selling fast

• In: news, speakers
• By: john
• July 2nd, 2007

A quick final reminder that to get $200 off the full ticket price of Web Directions, (that makes it only $795 including GST) you'll have to register by tomorrow night at midnight. You can pay later, but that is the final chance to get the early bird discount. Registrations have been ...

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Should your organisation have a “web department”?

• In: trends
• By: john
• July 2nd, 2007

One of the web's elder statesmen, and all round delightful person, Jeffrey Zeldman (he did a video keynote for our first ever conference, which you can watch here - it's about 9 minutes, and a lot of fun) asks today "who should be responsible for an organisation's web ...

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