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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/2009/07/07/some-links-236/>
XHTML DOA WTF
<http://www.zeldman.com/2009/07/02/xhtml-wtf/>
Line Height - a simple step-by-step presentation
<http://www.slideshare.net/maxdesign/line-height>
HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You'll Soon Be Using
<http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/html-5-and-
css-3-the-techniques-youll-soon-be-using/>
Followerlap
<http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/followerlap/>
Is there a best CMS tool for your industry?
<http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1637-Best-CMS?source=RSS>
Live Web, Real Time . . . Call It What You Will, It’s Gonna Take A
While To Get It
<http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/live-web-real-time-call-it-what-
you-will-its-gonna-take-a-while-to-get-it/>
Video for Everybody!
<http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody>
80 Creative and Well-designed Logos
<http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/80-creative-and-well-designed-logos/>
PHP Security: Fortifying Your Website
<http://www.noupe.com/php/php-security-tips.html>
12 Tools To Check Your Site's Accessibility
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/07/06/site-accessibility-tools/>
It's all about you - Making the most of socialising online
<http://http://anthillonline.com/making-the-most-of-socialising-online/>
Using Wikis to Document UI Specifications
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/using-wikis-to>
Using Twitter for business and networking
<http://www.meryl.net/2009/07/twitter/>
Building Respect for Usability Expertise
<http://http://www.useit.com/alertbox/respect.html>
20+ Ready to Use Auto Completion Scripts
<http://dzineblog.com/2009/07/20-ready-to-use-auto-completion-
scripts.html>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Webstock Master Class workshops - Presentation Zen with Garr Reynolds
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Date: 08-Jul-09 – 10-Jul-09
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
For anyone who has to give presentations with the aid of PowerPoint
or Keynote, these workshops will explore current popular presentation
approaches and highlight techniques from some of the world’s top
business leaders, turning conventional wisdom concerning PowerPoint
and presentations on its ear. Garr’s "Presentation Zen" approach
challenges the conventional wisdom of making slide presentations in
today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more
creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your
presentations.
<http://www.webstock.org.nz/upcoming/preszen.php>
The CSS summit
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Date: 18-Jul-09
The Summit Series lets you build your skill set without having to
leave your computer.
<http://www.environmentsforhumans.com/>
July Melbourne WSG meeting
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Date: 20-July-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
CSS3 Reloaded
CSS 3 seems to have been coming for years—but is there anything to
show for it yet? Or is it all "pie in the sky"?
<http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/175>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 21-July-09 – 22-July-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>
July Canberra WSG meeting
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Date: 24-July-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
Topic 1: Beautiful Web Typography
Topic 2: Where am I? Building location aware websites
<http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/173>
Running in-house usability tests (Workshop)
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Date: 22-July-09
City: Melbourne (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>
WE Believe In Community - Registrations open!
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Date: 20-Aug-09 - 21-Aug-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
A web conference for people working in government and the public
sector. Brought to you by the Local Government Web Network. A full
day conference with a mix of split streams and some awesome plenary
sessions, and a second day of in-depth half day workshops. We're
proud to present keynotes from Senator Kate Lundy and Mark Pesce, and
a plenary session from Jason Ryan. Our conference sessions will be
covering a range of topics relevant to the public sector, such as
open web, Government 2.0, mobile web, social media, and marketing.
And workshops on WCAG 2.0, IA, usability, Javascript, writing for the
web, and CSS. Registrations now open! Early bird available until 10
July.
<http://conference09.lgwebnetwork.org>
UX Australia 2009 - registration now open!
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Dates: 26-Aug-09 to 28-Aug-09
City: Canvberra (Australia)
UX Australia 2009 is Australia's premier user experience design
conference, with inspiring and practical presentations, covering a
range of topics about how to design great experiences for people.
<http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2009>
Carson Workshops
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: October 6-9
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/>
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>
WCAG 2.0 Training New Zealand
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City: Wellington (New Zealand)
Dates:
Thursday 4th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 1 Checkpoints (Level A)
Thursday 11th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 2 Checkpoints (Level AA)
Thursday 18th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 3 Checkpoints (Level AAA)
Version 2.0 of the New Zealand Government Web Standards was released
in March. A major change is adoption of the W3C's WCAG 2.0 standards.
Accessibility expert Bruce Aylward from W3A will run a series of
training courses for web professionals on complying with the WCAG 2.0
standards at a training lab in Wellington. Each course covers one of
the three WCAG 2.0 priority levels and are practical and hands-on. At
the end of each course participants should be able to design for and
determine compliance with the checkpoints of the relevant priority
level of the WCAG 2.0.
<http://www.w3a.co.nz/contact.htm>
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>
Web Usability Training Course
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Date & city:
16th June – Melbourne (Australia)
28th July – Adelaide (Australia)
1st Dec – 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 & city:
17th June – Melbourne (Australia)
29th July – Adelaide (Australia)
2nd Dec – 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>
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JOBS
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Job 1
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Senior Web Production Coordinator required for exciting Digital
Solutions Agency in Melbourne’s CBD…
- Established and reputable Digital Agency
- Talented and savvy team
- Up to $70K + Super
A Senior Web Production Coordinator is required to join one of
Melbourne’s longest established boutique Digital Agencies. The role
has been created to support internal Project Teams working on a
variety of Online and Digital Media Solutions as well as manage
smaller web builds. The successful Production Coordinator will also
liaise directly with external Clients to manage day-to-day tasks and
ensure that resources and timelines are being utilised and managed
smoothly. Reporting to the Senior Project Manager you will be
responsible for:
- Assisting in the management of project plans
- Managing Service Level Agreements and Maintenance contracts
- Managing issue and risk registers
- Managing resource register tools
- Preparing status reports for clients, including financial and
milestone reports
- Ensuring day-to-day Production tasks are executed within timelines
- Client Relationship Management as well as internal staff liaison
You will demonstrate experience with:
- Working within an Agile environment
- Strong technical savvy/ability to liaise with technical team members
- Awareness of current internet trends and practises
- Intermediate knowledge of MS Project, PMBok or Prince2 methodologies
- Awareness of Risk Management practises
- Client Conflict Resolution and internal staff liaison
- Passion for the Web and Online world
Desirable Experience:
- Up to 3 years experience working in a Digital Agency, Media
Communications or Web Development House
- Demonstrable experience working on web projects ranging from $5K to
$50K in budget
This role is made for an individual who can truly say and prove they
are self-motivated, ambitious, able to pull their sleeves up and get
stuck in to even the most basic of tasks and possesses a ‘can-do’
attitude. The successful Production Coordinator will manage small Web
Project Builds, branding strategies and prove to be a resourceful and
commercially savvy Account Manager as well. The lucky individual will
also benefit from a stable environment, in an established Digital
Agency, with a clear career path and exposure to a wide range of
corporate, government, retail and high-end brand clients. If you
would like to know about this role, do not hesitate to contact
Georgie on 03 8060 9280 or email your application to
geor...@georgiecarpenter.com.
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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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