Web Essentials 04 was great - but wasn't there feedback last year regarding a session addressing the commercial benefits of web standards?
How will the web standards movement grow if people don't know how to sell the benefits of web standards internally to management and externally to clients? Will the conference be niched as the converted preaching to the congregation? Maybe a specific topic addressing the commercial benefits of Web Standards at WE05 could have been included. Its sort of like - 'great cart - but why do I need a horse'? :) I mean this in a most constructive way. I think Peter, John, Russ et al are doing a great job. Anyone else see a need for a manager level session to provide a range of commercial justifications for adopting webstandards? Chris Dimmock Cogentis Internet Marketing Strategies http://www.cogentis.com.au/ On 5/4/05, Peter Firminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements > ******************************************** > > Building on the success of WE04, Web Essentials returns this September 29 and > 30 even bigger and better. Featuring 7 industry leaders in > > * standards based web design and development > * user experience > * accessibility > * workflow and strategy > > WE05 will instruct and educate and like no other conference this year. With 22 > sessions in two streams over two big days we've got 50% more content than last > year, and more than twice the number of international speakers. Most > importantly we're totally focussed on practical hands on instruction in XHTML, > CSS, AJAX, accessibility, user experience, semantics, microformats and more. > > http://we05.com/program.cfm > > The lineup includes > > * Molly Holszchlag > * Eric Meyer > * Jeffrey Veen > * Tantek Celik > * Kelly Goto > * Derek Featherstone > * Doug Bowman ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
