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 will focus on web, tech […]
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 practice, and focussed on writing, speaking […]
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 Hotel in Sydney. Compete with your peers […]
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 recognised and applauded, is being run […]
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 sophisticated essays, but don’t let that […]
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 our development track. Andrew provides adaptive technology […]
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 are (we’ve each judged plenty of […]
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 this year Sofia Celic is […]
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 in Digital Web magazine on corporate […]
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 during Web Directions South, on […]
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 you are the marketing […]
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 the last several years of […]
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 people use networked social […]
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 absolutely fantastic so far, […]
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 experience?” – Should it be IT? Should […]
Three days of talks, two of them in the engineering room. Web Directions you have broken my brain.
Cheryl Gledhill Product Manager, BlueChilli
