September 4th, 2008
The Edge of the Web early bird pricing ends this Friday, the 5th of September – that’s tomorrow! To save yourself $55, register today.
While you’re getting your conference ticket, why not check out one of the four great half-day workshops, running on Friday the 7th of November:
Workshops are $200 for AWIA members, $225 for non-members, and $100 for students – and lunch is included for all attendees (between 12.30pm and 1.30pm). For an intense half day session with a noted expert, that’s a steal.
September 3rd, 2008
The Local Government Web Network, a NSW-based organisation for web site coordinators, held a two day conference on the 21st and 22nd of August. The lineup of speakers included four talented individuals who will also be speaking at the Edge of the Web conference in Perth this November – and from all accounts, the topics were all very well received.
On the first day, Cameron Adams impressed the delegates with a plenery session on Working With Design. Cameron will be speaking at EOTW on Designing with Creative Code and running a workshop, Frontiers of JavaScript. Also on the first day of LGWN, Russ Weakley presented on Efficient, maintainable, modular CSS. Russ’ EOTW session will be about his work at the Australian Museum, titled Pushing the boundaries on content-rich websites.
The second day of LGWN featured an opening keynote by Ben Buchanan – Steering the glacier: how does one person have an impact? Ben’s EOTW session will be a different take on a similar topic - Hacking Humans: Advocating for a better web. Finally, Tim Lucas presented Just Building It, An Introduction to Ruby on Rails at LGWN. Tim’s EOTW topic will be another one close to his heart, Developing for the iPhone.
Thanks go to former Perth gal Ruth Ellison for her excellent write up of the event. Hope to see you at Edge of the Web, Ruth!
September 2nd, 2008
The announcement today of Chrome, Google’s “coming soon” foray into the web browser space, has been the talk of the internet. Everyone has an opinion – and regardless of whether you think it’s good news or bad, one thing is certain: it’s going to have an impact.
Open source advocate Chris Messina has posted an interesting discussion of Google Chrome on his blog: Google Chrome and the future of browsers – and it’s well worth a read.
Chris will be presenting the closing keynote address, titled Breeding Success Through Openness, at the Edge of the Web conference in Perth on November 6.
September 1st, 2008
Social media consultant Laurel Papworth is not afraid to call out the big guys on their bad social media strategies. She recently wrote an article, titled eBay turns to the dark side, for online magazine Crikey on the blunders that are causing loyal users of eBay to turn against the popular auction site. The article has been republished on Laurel’s own blog for those readers who are not Crikey members.
Laurel will be speaking this November at the Edge of the Web conference on How to Develop a Social Marketing Campaign – no doubt with tips on how to avoid eBay’s mistakes!
