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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/2009/10/07/some-links-249/>
Social media is harder than it looks — think before you do
<http://www.acidlabs.org/2009/09/25/social-media-is-harder-than-it-looks-think-before-you-do/
CSS3 Generator
<http://www.widgetpad.com/694/>
Mobile phone numbers in electronic forms
<http://formulate.com.au/research/mobile-phone-numbers/>
Breaking Up Large Documents for the Web - Part 3
<http://www.uie.com/articles/breaking_down_documents_part3/>
XML on the Web
<http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2009/xml-on-the-web/>
Progressive Enhancement Techniques 1: the HTML
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/06/progressive-enhancement-1-html/
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Powers of 10: Time Scales in User Experience
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/timeframes.html>
Integrating Prototyping Into Your Design Process
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/integrating>
PD4ML - HTML to PDF converter for Java
<http://www.pd4ml.com/>
Why Bottom Posting Sucks
<http://www.molly.com/2009/09/29/why-bottom-posting-sucks/>
Starting with [at]font-face
<http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2009/10/05/starting_wit/>
Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/05/mastering-css-coding-getting-started/
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Usability Testing Demystified
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/usability-testing-demystified/>
Discovering Magic
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/discovering-magic/>
Create your own Wallpaper
<http://wallpapers.x3studios.com/>
Google Wave Gets Explained
<http://mashable.com/2009/10/02/video-google-wave-gets-explained/>
Design Coding Rap
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qMe7Z3EYg>
1px rounded corners
<http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/1px-rounded-corners>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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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/>
Writing for the web workshop
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Date: 09-Oct-09
City: Sydney (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=160>
Sydney Joomla Day 2009
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Dates: 17-Oct-09
City: Sydney (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: 20-Oct-09
City: 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>
FullFrontal 2009
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Date: 20-Oct-09
City: Brighton (UK)
Full Frontal is a one day JavaScript conference that includes speakers
such as: Jake Archibald, Christian Heilmann, Todd Kloots, Peter-Paul
Koch, Stuart Langridge, Robert Nyman, Simon Willison
<http://2009.full-frontal.org/>
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date: 21-Oct-09
City: 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>
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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Senior Linux Web Server Engineer
Melbourne, Australia
Casual/Contract role for a senior Linux web server engineer/
administrator.
Loop11 is the world's first fully self-service, online, unmoderated,
user testing tool; changing the way companies conduct usability testing.
We need you to implement a secure and scalable Linux-based web
application server within a hosting environment. We will also require
you to implement server configuration changes as our web application
is enhanced or modified.
We require that you have in-depth experience in:
- Linux and RedHat
- High-availability, high-load environment
- Security
- Apache2
- Performance
- Load testing
- Networking technology and TCP/IP, HTTP
- Web Architectures
- SQL
Ideal but optional experience:
- Media server
- Squid web proxy cache
- Python and Django
- PostgreSQL
How to apply: To apply please email Toby Biddle at [email protected]
Job 2
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Senior Designer
We take serious pride in our pixels, and we're looking for someone who
feels the same to join our growing team. You'll be responsible for
shaping the interface and experience for one of the country's most
popular web applications used by 50,000 of your design peers in more
than 100 countries.
<http://www.freshview.com/about/designer.aspx>
Job 3
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MV/8019 – Project Manager, Mobile Learning
Grade 5, Value Range 1
Manage the development and delivery of a suite of interactive tools
accessible via a mobile device that will provide learning experiences
about biodiversity for school students.
This Vacancy is Full Time & Fixed for 12 Months
Applications close: Wednesday 7 October 2009 COB
<http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/work-opportunities/employment/>
Job 4
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MV/8020 – Web Developer, Special Projects
Grade 4, Value Range 1
Provide technical expertise and leadership for the design and
development of high-quality technical solutions for specialist
online projects, principally for the Sciences department.
This Vacancy is Full Time & Fixed for 12 Months
Applications close: Wednesday 7 October 2009 COB
<http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/work-opportunities/employment/>
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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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