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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 country), please let me know - r...@maxdesign.com.au
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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/2009/09/01/some-links-244/>
Dial up and Accessibility
<http://www.dingoaccess.com/accessibility/dial-up-and-accessibility/>
The Big CSS3 Validation Debate
<http://www.css3.info/the-big-css3-validation-debate/>
Card Sorting: Pushing Users Beyond Terminology Matches
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/word-matching.html>
Gartner predicts rise of the social scientist
<http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2248335/business-needs-social-science>
Regarding HTML5
<http://simplebits.com/notebook/2009/08/31/html5.html>
Inline Validation in Web Forms
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/inline-validation-in-web-forms/>
Get Ready for HTML 5
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/get-ready-for-html-5/>
Who's Driving Twitter's Popularity? Not Teenagers
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html>
Baseline - a designer framework
<http://baselinecss.com/>
10 Tools For Finding, Registering And Managing Domain Names
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/29/10-tools-find-register-manage-domain-names/
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Loving HTML5
<http://www.zeldman.com/2009/08/31/loving-html5/>
JAWS 11 Public Beta
<http://freedomscientific.com/downloads/jaws/JAWS-public-beta.asp>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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NSW Public Sphere: Government 2.0
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Date: 4-Sep-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Penny Sharpe MLC is hosting an event at the NSW Parliament about how
Web 2.0 technologies can improve collaboration, participation and
service delivery in NSW. Inspired by the PublicSphere events run by
Senator Kate Lundy, NSW Public Sphere: Government 2.0 will have a
range of speakers and panels that will explore how Web 2.0 has the
power to transform our models of democracy at a state level.
<http://pennysharpe.com/nswsphere>
Design Secrets of digg.com's User Interface - Daniel Burka
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Date: 08-Sept-09
City: London (UK)
Web 2.0 is focused on user participation, so how can you promote
interaction on your site? As designers and product people, our focus
is on developing wonderful user experiences where people can come
together to participate in meaningful and useful ways. With social
sites, this is doubly critical as our sites are fundamentally powered
by users interacting with one another. This workshop will focus on
design strategies for lowering the barriers to participation, adapting
to user behavior, promoting positive behaviors, managing scale, and
creating intuitive user experiences.
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/danielburka/index.html>
Web Directions South 2009
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Dates: 6-Oct-09 to 9-Oct-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Two days of workshops plus a two day, three track conference - Design,
Development and Business - with leading international and local
experts in user experience, interface design, social media, coding and
development, SEO, accessibility, interaction design and much more. A
place for anyone who works on the web in any way at all to learn,
connect, share and experience ideas in 2009.
<http://south09.webdirections.org/>
Sydney Joomla Day 2009
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Dates: 17-Oct-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
Join us for JoomlaDay Sydney conference on Saturday 17th October 2009
and a day of Joomla! workshops on Sunday 18th October, at COFA. There
will be two streams this year - beginners/business and advanced/
technical - but you can choose between sessions on the day.
<http://sydney.joomladay.org.au/>
Gov 2.0 Conference
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Dates: 19-Oct-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
Would you like to learn how to implement Web 2.0 in Government? Gov
2.0 Conference (Canberra, 19 October 2009) is a case study driven
event showcasing government projects that leverage the Web as a
platform to create openness of public sector information, greater
transparency of policy making and increased citizen-centric
engagement. The conference provides practical insights, expert advice,
solutions and a workshop on how to implement online engagement within
government parameters and manage cultural change. Chaired by Senator
for the ACT, Kate Lundy, the conference will also feature speakers
highlighting best practice international Gov 2.0 examples such as
Great Britain's Dr Andy Williamson, Director, eDemocracy Programme
Hansard Society, and the USA's Dr Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, New York
State CIO and Director of the Office for Technology. To register and
find out more, visitwww.gov2.com.au or call 02 9280 3400.
<http://www.gov2.com.au>
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
18th August – Adelaide (Australia)
20th Oct – Canberra (Australia)
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web
applications - one day course. From internet banking, online learning,
government transactional sites to employee phonebooks, online projects
increasingly include elements of web application design. This course
will explore the value and limitations of building a web application
and introduce a range of tools, approaches and interface design
principles to ensure that you understand your audience and design
intuitive and usable web applications. Includes usability of Rich
Internet Applications and AJAX.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html>
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
19th August – Adelaide (Australia)
21st Oct – Canberra (Australia)
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites - one day course. Ever
wonder why users don't behave how you expect? Ever done usability
testing or found usability issues but didn't know how to fix them?
This course will provide an insight into human characteristics and
online behaviour based on latest research and hundreds of usability
tests with users, including video footage of usability test sessions.
We will also cover the theory and principles of interaction design.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html>
Oz-IA/2009
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Dates: 2nd-3rd October, 2009
City: Sydney (Australia)
Australia's Information Architecture Conference - two stimulating days
of presentations, panels, and networking with information architects
from across Australia and beyond.
<http://www.oz-ia.org/2009/>
Edge of the web - Perth 2009
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Dates: 4-Nov-09 to 6-Nov-09
City: Perth (Australia)
Edge of the Web brings a world-class web conference experience to
Western Australia, featuring exciting national and international
speakers, in November 2009.
<http://www.edgeoftheweb.org.au/>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 24-Nov-09 - 25-Nov-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
The training course uses interactive materials and examples to
introduce key concepts of usability. Insight is provided to help you
understand how to convert website visitors into paying customers,
maximising income streams, minimise the likes of Call Centre costs,
and help avoid common design mistakes.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-training.php>
Running in-house usability tests (Workshop)
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Date: 25-Nov-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Empowering you and your staff to run usability tests is a cost
effective approach at gathering valuable insights into your users'
behaviour. Usability Testing is a crucial activity to ensure you
develop successful and usable interfaces. In this workshop you will
learn what is involved to set up and run a usability testing project
from start to finish.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-testing-workshop.php>
Web Usability Training Course
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Date: 1-Dec-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
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.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html>
Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
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Date: 2-Dec-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
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.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 7-Dec-09 - 8-Dec-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
The training course uses interactive materials and examples to
introduce key concepts of usability. Insight is provided to help you
understand how to convert website visitors into paying customers,
maximising income streams, minimise the likes of Call Centre costs,
and help avoid common design mistakes.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-training.php>
Running in-house usability tests (Workshop)
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Date: 7-Dec-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Empowering you and your staff to run usability tests is a cost
effective approach at gathering valuable insights into your users'
behaviour. Usability Testing is a crucial activity to ensure you
develop successful and usable interfaces. In this workshop you will
learn what is involved to set up and run a usability testing project
from start to finish.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-testing-workshop.php>
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JOBS
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Job 1
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Senior client-side developer
Clearleft is looking for a senior client-side developer to join their
small but prestigious team in Brighton, England. This is a fantastic
opportunity to join a company committed to doing things the right way.
So if you want to make a difference and share your knowledge with the
larger web community, this could be the perfect job for you.
We're looking for somebody at the top of their game, so you'll need to
demonstrate a deep understanding of the HTML and CSS specifications
and the various ways these are interpreted by modern (and not so
modern) browsers. You'll also be expected to keep in touch with all
the current industry developments, including HTML5 and CSS3. You will
be a dab hand at DOM scripting and really care about unobtrusive
Javascript and accessible Ajax. JQuery is likely to be your library of
choice, but you don't feel naked without it.
If the description sounds like your cup of tea, why not check out the
full spec, and drop us a line if you're keen.
<http://clearleft.com/is/hiring/>
Job 2
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WANTED: PASSIONATE WEB GEEK TO JOIN SITEPOINT (MELBOURNE)
An exciting opportunity exists for a competent techie wishing to
unleash his or her technical writing and editing ability in a young,
dynamic and innovative company. Practical experience with client-side
technologies and at least one server-side platform is expected. A
broad interest in web technology and programming fundamentals is also
required. Excellent writing and editing skills are a must, as well as
strong communication and organizational skills. The ideal candidate
should have a working knowledge of as many web technologies as
possible (e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby On Rails,
ASP.NET, Java, Flash, Flex, MySQL, SQL Server, etc.). The most
suitable person for this role will be someone who is passionate about
web design and development, has been tinkering with different web
technologies for some time, keeps up to date with the web industry,
and enjoys reading and writing.
The Technical Editor's Role
The objective of this role is to ensure the high level of technical
and educational quality of SitePoint produced content. Technical
editors identify and correct errors, omissions, and unclear wording in
technical books and articles written for web developers and designers.
The role will involve exploring and understanding new technologies
quickly and efficiently, and researching new ideas for SitePoint
content.
To find a complete job description visit:
<http://www.sitepoint.com/about/jobs/job2-technical_editor.php>
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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 know - r...@maxdesign.com.au
Thanks
Russ
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