events

WA Web Awards — finalists announced

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 … Read more »

Writing for the Web

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 … Read more »

Australian Web Industry events — May June 2007

Over the com­ing few weeks there’s a tonne of stuff hap­pen­ing of inter­est to Australian web pro­fes­sion­als. If you’ve got an event, or know of one I’ve missed, do let us know.

First up, Microsoft is run­ning a local ver­sion of their MIX con­fer­ence, ReMIX which has strong web … Read more »

WDS07 — Now open for business

OK peo­ple, the wait is over. Come on in, have a look around, and check out the pro­gram and speak­ers we’ve lined up for Web Directions South 2007. With more than 30 lead­ing experts, includ­ing a dozen inter­na­tional stars of the web indus­try, across three tracks, Web Directions South … Read more »

Notes from the Front Line

The fol­low­ing posts will be in raw note form for now so as to allow me to keep up with the pre­sen­ta­tions while get­ting as much online as pos­si­ble. When I get some more this evening I will come back and expand upon the points.

Caution: falling char­ac­ter debris…

[tags] wdo6, raw … Read more »

It’s coming — Monday

a large compass logo like the one for web directions south, only in red and pointing north

Port80 event in Sydney on the eve of Web Directions

The inde­fati­ga­ble Miles Burke, of Bam Creative, and one of the founders of the Web indus­try asso­ci­a­tion Port80, along with a whole tribe of sand­grop­ers (that’s folks from Western Australia for our non Australian audi­ence) are once more head­ing east for Web Directions. Each year more of them … Read more »