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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 - [email protected]
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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/2009/09/08/some-links-245/>
9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Networking Site
<http://traffikd.com/resources/build-your-own-social-networking-site/>
Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web
<http://mashable.com/2009/09/05/google-wave-ideas/>
Font Squirrel - Download Hundreds of Free @font-face Fonts
<http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface>
Conducting Data-Rich Surveys Just Got Easier With Forms In Google Docs
<http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/03/conducting-data-rich-surveys-just-got-easier-with-forms-in-google-docs/
>
A Closer Look at CSS Frameworks
<http://www.christianmontoya.com/2009/09/03/a-closer-look-at-css-frameworks/
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Spoken Directions to Web Content
<http://info.org.il/english/spoken_directions_to_web_content.html>
HTML 5 pocket book
<http://adactio.com/extras/pocketbooks/html5/>
Digg adds nofollow to some links
<http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/digg-nofollow-links/>
28 reasons why organisations avoid social media - (try it as bingo)
<http://egovau.blogspot.com/2009/08/28-reasons-why-organisations-avoid.html
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HTML 5: The Markup Language
<http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/>
Why Should Anyone Read Your Blog?
<http://www.copyblogger.com/why-read-your-blog/>
Detailed interview on Ravelry
<http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/09/02/Ravelry>
Accessibility in Web 2.0 technology
<http://tinyurl.com/m2fp6l>
This millenium in HTML 5 (politics)
<http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2009/this-millenium-in-html-5-politics/>
A Bit of SVG and Canvas
<http://nimbupani.com/blog/bit-of-svg-and-canvas.html>
PNG transparency in IE 6 with no extra http request
<http://tjkdesign.com/articles/png-alpha-transparency_with-no-<http-request.asp
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Opera 10
<http://www.opera.com/>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Writing for the web workshop
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Date: 29-Sep-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Our full day web writing course is suitable for anyone who writes or
edits
content for their organisation's website (intranet or Internet,
including
blogs). We'll show you how to improve your writing to make it more
effective
for use online.
<http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=153>
Future of Web Apps
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Dates: 30-Sep-09 to 2-Oct-09
City: London (UK)
"We have a full day of workshops on 30th Sept followed by a 2 day, 1
track event at Kensington Town Hall on 1st- 2nd Oct. Here's a little
taster of some of the fantastic workshops"
<http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2009/london>
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 to 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>
World Usability Day 2009
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Date: 12-Nov-09
Cities: all over!
It's about "Making Life Easy" and user friendly. Technology today is
too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a
doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an
infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, government,
communication, entertainment, work and other areas, we must develop
these technologies in a way that serves people first.
<http://www.worldusabilityday.org/>
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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The project is a corporate program management system which allows
users to view and manage financial, milestone and other information
about a portfolio of projects. There is good opportunity for
interesting data visualisations - graphing etc. There is a little
branding work to be done but it is mostly about getting a visual style
to a set of wireframes that are in development. A sound User
Experience process has been followed. I'm looking for a mid-level to
senior web designer who can achieve the following key things:
1. Set the visual style - design graphic treatments and layout based
on medium-fidelity wireframes - for a number of functionality driven
(rather than content driven) pages / screens, and
2. Implement standards compliant (or at least tight and efficient)
CSS for those screens.
The skills of the person that I am looking for would sit in the shaded
are of the triangle in this diagram...
<http://twitpic.com/g6hia >
Details...
Engagement type: Contract
Term: 20-30days
Start: Immediate or in next 2 weeks
Rate: Healthy Mid level daily rate
Team: 1xUX designer, 1xBA, 3xdevs, 1xDBA - great friendly team.
Location: Charlotte St. Brisbane CBD location or interstate / home based
Other Perks: Free soda, beers on Friday arvo and personal trainer 1
day per wk (to negate the former 2 perks)
Solution is being delivered using web technologies (specifically
ASP.NET). Contact Matt Morphett [email protected] 0413 992 044.
No recruiters / placement agency calls please.
Job 2
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Design and Development Coordinator
- Permanent position
- Career development opportunities
- Flexible working conditions
- Salary range: $66,494-$73,397
Are you an experienced web developer with an eye for design? Are you
looking for a rewarding position with flexible lifestyle options?
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to become a vital member of one of
New South Wales’ key political organisations.
A position exists within the Local Government and Shires Associations
for a Design and Development Coordinator to contribute to the
promotion of NSW Local Government through effective project management
and development of an online and print identity.
This is a great chance to be at the forefront of a re-imagining of a
suite of websites and the development of a strong corporate image.
This is a role for a skilled individual with a high level of project
management skills, exceptional attention to detail, and excellent
interpersonal skills.
You must have:
- An appreciation of developing direction of the web, including 2.0.
- An understanding of common programming languages such as CSS,
Javascript, PHP.
- An understanding of accessibility, information architecture and
usability principles.
- A strong creative flair with an eye for good design in all forms.
- Strong skills in branding.
- The ability to work as part of a team.
The Associations are the peak industry bodies for Local Government in
NSW. They implement member council decisions, provide research
support, lobby for their policy positions and represent the industry
as a whole to the NSW community.
The Associations are committed to EEO in all aspects of their
employment practices.
Applications close: Friday 11 September. Please email your resume and
covering letter addressing the essential requirements – with
consideration for the key accountabilities – to: [email protected].
Download a copy of the position description from: http://www.lgsa.org.au/www/html/562-lgsa-job-opportunities.asp
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This is a re-advertised position. Those who have submitted an
application need not re-apply.
For further information please contact Kate Walsh on 02 9242 4061.
Job 3
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Front End Developer
The World Nomads Group is a global travel technology and marketing
company, supplying services to customers in over 150 countries. Our
success to date has been based on our flexibility, agility and
innovation. We're growing, and looking for a full-time, experienced
Front End Developer to work on existing brands, as well as projects
which require widgets, social media interfaces and editorial tools.
You will be responsible for:
- Liaising with business managers to develop and deliver web front end
work, to a high industry standard
- Liaising with designers to get the most from the creative work
- Working with back end developers to integrate your work in with
dynamic applications and content managed systems.
- Collaborating with designers and developers to create prototypes for
online and mobile platforms
- Maintaining clear and thorough documentation at all times
You will have a minimum of three years experience in a commercial or
agency background with excellent communication, problem solving and
organisational skills. It is essential you will;
- Have excellent (X)HTML and CSS skills using Strict doctypes
- Be able to develop advanced DHTML solutions both from scratch and
using JavaScript Frameworks
- Be fluent and strive to develop to W3C's WAI guidelines and
techniques such as the WCAG
- Be an adept problem solver, who can help advise business managers
and producers on efficient technical solutions
- Be aware of the trends in digital communication and have an interest
in social networks.
The key to your success will be your user interface expertise, backed
up by exemplary technical skills and an active interest in industry
trends. If you're looking to work with an experienced and innovative
production team, please send your details to Anna Namuren, [email protected]
Job 4
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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 5
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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 - [email protected]
Thanks
Russ
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