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This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements
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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- WSG and Industry events
- Industry related jobs
If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any
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GET CONNECTED - LINKED/FACEBOOKED?
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What to connect with other WSG members?
Linkedin WSG group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=54560&sharedKey=13D0DC45E3AF
Facebook WSG group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2410228768
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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here (for those who
click on the links below and find that they are broken):
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2008/07/16/some-links-184/>
Judging forms
http://formulate.com.au/articles/judging-forms/
Review of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/calling-in-the-big
Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks, Part 1
http://www.uie.com/articles/search_results/
Walking the Line When You Work from Home
http://alistapart.com/articles/walkingthelinewhenyouworkfromhome
Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/portable_social_networks_building_blocks
_of_a_social_web/
Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/cheat_sheets_web_developer/
The Cindy Li Interview
http://www.christopherschmitt.com/2008/07/15/the-cindy-li-interview/
'Not a Site, but a Concept': Tapping the Power of Social Networking
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2009
The Clangers Guide to Microformats
http://www.vimeo.com/1290997
html vs css pt4/div-wrapped
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/html-vs-css-pt4-wrapper-div
Why Twitter survives
http://www.snook.ca/archives/opinion/twitter_survival/
100 Ways to Improve Usability in Your Library
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2008/07/14/100-ways-to-improve-usabil
ity-in-your-library/
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Usability week 2008
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Date: 21-Jul-08 to 26-Jul-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
http://www.nngroup.com/events/melbourne/agenda.html
Web Usability Training Workshop
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Date: 22-Jul-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Description: Introduction to User Centred Design tools and techniques. As a
result of attending this one day course, participants will have a good
understanding of the value and importance of user centred design and have
the basic skills, knowledge and tools to apply the user centred design
approach to developing usable Internet sites, Intranet sites or web
applications within their own organisation.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html
July Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
Date: 23-Jul-08
City: Canberra (Australia)
Jessica Enders (Formulate Information Design), the secrets of successful
online forms; plus Alexi Paschalidis (Oxide Interactive) and Tim Siers
(Royal Australian Navy), redevelopment of the Royal Australian Navy web site
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=155
Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
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Date: 23-Jul-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Description: Discount evaluation techniques and how to conduct usability
tests. In this one day interactive workshop, learn valuable usability
evaluation and testing methods that you can use to evaluate your
organisation's Internet and Intranet site, web applications and software.
This course will explore the difference between expert reviews and usability
testing and which is better to use and when. We will cover when to usability
test, what to test and how to test.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html
August web standards meeting (Sydney)
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Date: 19-Aug-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation 1: "Findability: going beyond SEO"
Presentation 2: "One Web, No Go"
Presentation 3: "Building web apps for iPhones"
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=156
Web on the Piste
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Date: 20-Aug-08 to 21-Aug-08
City: Queenstown (New Zealand)
The ultimate conference for rich internet technologies is on again this year
and if you haven't already heard about it, then check out
www.webonthepiste.com and get yourself a ticket ASAP! WOTP is a vendor
neutral conference held in Queenstown, NZ in August 20 - 21st - in the
height of the ski season. With a unique offering of Microsoft and Adobe
playing happily together and showcasing the latest & greatest in
technologies such as Silverlight / WPF, Flash, Flex / AIR, .NET, Coldfusion,
you'll get a big dose of the RIA market in one place. With a heap of
excellent speakers / sessions, a fantastic social agenda and with the
activities that Queenstown offers - your guaranteed to learn a lot and have
fun.
dConstruct 2008 (Brighton, UK)
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Date: 5-Sep-08
City: Brighton (UK)
The hottest ticket in the web design calendar is back for it's fourth
instalment. This year dConstruct will see speakers such as Steven
Johnson, Daniel Burka, Joshua Porter and Jeremy Keith talk about
"Designing the Social Web." Tickets go on sale at 11am BST on the
24th June and usually sell out within a day, so stick a note in your
diary today.
http://2008.dconstruct.org/
Oz-IA/2008
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Date: 20-Sep-08 to 21-Sep-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Oz-IA, Australia's Information Architecture Conference, will be on once
again this year. This is our third year, and it's going to be even bigger.
We will also have full and half day workshops on Thursday 18th and Friday
19th. http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/
We have an immediate call for participation - short or advanced conference
sessions, posters, panels, and workshop facilitators. Deadline: July 25th.
http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/presenters.shtml
Singularity Web Conference
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Date: 24-Oct-08 to 26-Oct-08
City: everywhere
Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world.
On October 24-26, join 100 of the world¹s top web visionaries, developers,
designers, thought leaders, and celebrities for three days of talks at this
seminal web event.
Attend from home or from a real-world local conference hub near you. Catch
up with old friends (you can find them from your existing social networks)
and meet new ones. And you don¹t even have to take time off work.
http://singularity08.com/
Web Directions South 2008
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Date: 25-Sep-08 to 26-Sep-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
This year in over 30 sessions across 3 tracks and 2 days, plus another 2
days of workshops, we cover off front and back end design and development,
mobile design and development, information architecture, user experience and
interaction design, social media and networks, accessibility, Ajax and
Javascript, semantic web, RIAs, web application security, marketing and
advertising online and so much more. With speakers including:
* Jeffrey Veen - renowned UX expert from Wired, Adaptive Path, Google
* Derek Featherstone - leading accessibility expert
* Daniel Burka - interaction designer for Digg
* Jina Bolton - The Art and Science of CSS
* Douglas Crockford - Ajax security expert at Yahoo!, and the world's
leading JavaScript authority
* Jeff Croft - web design and typography guru
* Lynne D Johnson - Senior Editor and Community Director at FastCompany
http://south08.webdirections.org/
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JOBS
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No jobs this week - but keep them coming!
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Did I miss an event, resource or job in your city? If you have an event,
resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me
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Thanks
Russ
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