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Canberra meetings

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Upcoming Meetings

Friday 24 July, 2009
July Canberra WSG meeting
Presentation 1: Simon Pascal Klein - Beautiful Web Typography
Presentation 2: Paul Hagon - Where am I? Building location aware websites

Past Meetings

Friday 15 May, 2009
May Canberra WSG meeting
Presentation 1: Ivan Herman - Introduction and Applications of Semantic Web
Presentation 2: Michael(tm) Smith - HTML5, XHTML2: Learning from history about how to drive the future of the Web
Wednesday 18 March, 2009
March Canberra WSG meeting
Presentation 1: Stephen Collins - Public engagement. Public empowerment.
Presentation 2: Mark Schenk - Stories: An unlikely way to find out what's really going on
Wednesday 04 February, 2009
February Canberra WSG meeting
Jessica Enders: Zebra striping: the mouse that roared.
Donna Spencer: Involving Users: Why is it so hard to do the right thing?
Thursday 27 November, 2008
November Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
Government 2.0 - trends and adoption strategies by Matthew Hodgson. Web 2.0 in Government - Buzzwords and Opportunities by Stephen Zafir
Wednesday 23 July, 2008
July Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
Jessica Enders (Formulate Information Design), the secrets of successful online forms; plus Alexi Paschalidis (Oxide Interactive) and Tim Siers (Royal Australian Navy), redevelopment of the Royal Australian Navy web site
Thursday 22 May, 2008
May Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
Dr Darrell Williamson (CSIRO ICT Centre), service science technologies and architectures in the ICT Centre; plus David Ratcliffe (CSIRO e-Services Integration group), GRDDL - an explanation and demonstration
Thursday 27 March, 2008
March Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
Brian Stonebridge (Department Finance and Deregulation), the GovDex tool to support collaboration across government agencies; plus Michele Huston (National Library of Australia), Wikis at work
Thursday 31 January, 2008
January meeting (Canberra)
Geoff Dibley (Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry), They came, they search, they leave - improving internal site search for users; plus Paul Hagon (National Library of Australia), Users aren't as clever as you think they are - search analysis of Picture Australia
Wednesday 21 November, 2007
November meeting (Canberra)
Debra Wells, Screen reader testing of Australian Government web sites; plus Ruth Ellison (Stamford Interactive), Implementing accessibility in Government
1 comment
Thursday 04 October, 2007
October meeting (Canberra)
Donna Maurer (Maadmob Interaction Design), Information architecture - beyond the hierarchy; plus Andrew Boyd (SMS Management & Technology), Prototyping as part of the web design process
3 comments
Thursday 26 July, 2007
July meeting (Canberra)
Stephen Collins (acidlabs), Collaboration, innovation, distribution: social computing adoption benefits for government and business, plus Matthew Hodgson (SMS Management & Technology), Goldilocks and the three bears: a story about social computing in government
1 comment
Thursday 31 May, 2007
May meeting (Canberra)
John Allsopp (Westciv) on microformats, plus Brian Hardy (Vision Australia) on the accessibility of PDF files
Wednesday 28 March, 2007
March meeting (Canberra)
Shane Morris (Microsoft) on designers and developers - learning to get along, plus Craig Errey (PTG Global) on bridging the gap between requirements and design
3 comments
Thursday 18 January, 2007
January meeting (Canberra)
Three presentations: Navy web site redevelopment, 2006 web standards audit of Australian Government home pages, and Best practice tactics for government web sites
Tuesday 12 December, 2006
web-blast 06 - Canberra
Web-blast Canberra is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney's web community.
Thursday 26 October, 2006
October meeting (Canberra)
Two presentations: Australian Government web site standards, and Involving users in the design process: the Hiser Element Methodology
Thursday 31 August, 2006
August meeting (Canberra)
Two presentations: The impact of the e-government strategy and development of the Australian Government Online Service Point, and Measuring, optimising and comparing search result quality
Thursday 11 May, 2006
May meeting (Canberra)
Tom Worthington will talk about the redesign of the web interface of the Sahana disaster management system to run on a PDA and John Allsopp will speak about web patterns
Thursday 02 March, 2006
March meeting (Canberra)
Alex Fahey and Hurol Inan on Web analytics
Friday 10 February, 2006
February W3C/WSG Meeting (Canberra)
Ross Ackland - W3C in Australia
Richard Ishida - W3C on internationalisation
Friday 11 November, 2005
Inaugural Canberra Meeting
Dean Jackson will be talking about the role of the WC3 and Donna Maurer will be talking about designing usable rich internet applications.