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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/2009/10/28/some-links-252/>
Fonty font font
<http://zeldman.com/?p=2782>
Font Dragr: A drag and drop font tester
<http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/font-dragr>
After Firefox 3.6 – new font control features for designers
<http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/font-control-for-designers/>
Declaring Languages in HTML 5
<http://nimbupani.com/blog/declaring-languages-in-html-5.html>
Browser support for CSS3 and HTML5
<http://www.deepbluesky.com/blog/-/browser-support-for-css3-and-html5_72/
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Why is the HTML specification a failure?
<http://rebuildingtheweb.com/en/html-spec-failure/>
How to measure social media ROI
<http://mashable.com/2009/10/27/social-media-roi/>
Haystack: Discover the right Web Designer for your next project.
<http://haystack.com/>
Online Database of Social Media Policies
<http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php>
Getting to No
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/getting-to-no/>
The Myth of Usability Testing
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-myth-of-usability-testing/>
Logo Design Toolbox: 60+ Resources for Logo Design
<http://http://designm.ag/resources/logo-design/>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Mashup Australia Hack Nights
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Date: 28-Oct-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
To support local developers working on entries for the MashupAustralia
contest, we're holding a hacking session in the Google office. We'll
start with a brief introduction to mashups and tips for making them,
do some brainstorming and idea sharing, and then get to hardcore
hacking. We'll also have dinner and drinks to give us energy.
<http://sites.google.com/site/gdevelopereventsyd/mashup-australia-hacknight
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GovHack
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Dates: 30-Oct-09 to 31-Oct-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
GovHack is a free, intensive day and a half exploring ways of creating
mashups and applications with government data and services, and most
importantly building some applications before the event is over.
<http://govhack.org/>
Drupal Day Sydney 2009
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Dates: 31-Oct-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Working with Drupal and want to learn how to do it the "Drupal Way"?
Please join us for Drupal Day Sydney on Saturday 31st October 2009. A
full day of workshops for beginner and intermediate users and special
code & documentation sprints for advanced users and developers. Bring
your laptop, questions and ideas - there is no room for spectators,
participants only!
<http://tr.im/DrupalDaySyd>
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/>
Fronteers 2009
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Dates: 5-Nov-09 to 6-Nov-09
City: Amsterdam (Netherlands)
After last year's success, Fronteers will once again be organising a
technical web conference in 2009. It will be held on Thursday 5th and
Friday 6th of November in Felix Meritis in Amsterdam.
<http://fronteers.nl/>
OpenAustralia Hackfest - MashupAustralia Edition
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Dates: 7-Nov-09 to 8-Nov-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
The OpenAustralia Foundation and Google invite you to this free all-
weekend hacking extravaganza for anyone interested in creating a
mashup for the MashupAustralia competition or hacking on the
OpenAustralia website.
<http://hackfest.openaustralia.org/>
November Sydney WSG meeting 2009
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Date: 11-Nov-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation 1: "Visual design principles for electronic forms" - by
Jessica Enders
Presentation 2: "Bringing PAX to the people" - Mikkel Bergmann
<http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/179>
OZeWAI - Australian Web Adaptability Initiative
Date: 23-Nov-09 to 24-Nov-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
OZeWAI will be for only two days at OZCHI and you will need to
register (soon) via the OZCHI website. See details at:
<http://www.ozewai.org/2009w/>
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/>
Web Analytics in Government
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Date: 24-Nov-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
The ABS has recently started developing indicators to measure the
success of its website using web analytics. In talking to some of our
counterparts in other government agencies, we realised that many of
them are in a similar position and going through the same learning
curve as ourselves.
<http://betaworks.abs.gov.au/Betaworks/Betaworks.nsf/projects/WAFregistration/WAF_main.htm
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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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Front End Architect
Are you passionate about web standards? Do you want to join a team who
share your almost-religious zeal for code perfection?
News Digital Media is looking for a Front-End Architect to join our
Business Integration team. Our team is at the forefront of web
standards-based development in Australia, building some of Australia’s
largest news websites. Your work will be seen by millions of
Australians.
If this job sounds like you, send your resume and cover letter
together with your salary expectations to [email protected] or apply
online at http://bit.ly/1TMHQR
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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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