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Meetings

Past Meetings

Wednesday 27 August, 2008: August Meeting (Melbourne); Join us and AIMIA as not one but two usability experts share their experience and deliver practical advice that you can use in the real world.; 1 comment

Tuesday 19 August, 2008: August meeting 2008 (Sydney); 1. Findability: going beyond SEO
2. One Web, No Go
3. Building web apps for iPhones; 2 comments

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

Friday 16 May, 2008: May meeting 2008 (Sydney); Richard Ishida and José Manuel Alonso

Thursday 15 May, 2008: May Meeting (Melbourne); José Manuel Alonso and Richard Ishida (joint event with Web Directions)

Wednesday 23 April, 2008: April meeting (Melbourne); John Allsopp: "The Web Beyond The Desktop", and Gerry Gaffney: "How Users Really Search"

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 28 February, 2008: February meeting (Melbourne); Paul Fenwick on starting an open source business; 1 comment

Thursday 21 February, 2008: February meeting (Sydney); Online Video: A standard document format for business

Wednesday 06 February, 2008: An Evening With Molly Holzschlag (Melbourne); Come along and take part in an informal Q&A session with one of the industry's leading educators and best-practice advocators.

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

Thursday 06 December, 2007: December meeting (Melbourne); James Farmer on blogging tools

Wednesday 05 December, 2007: December meeting (Sydney); 4 x 20:
Geoff Bowers - Setting Fire To Your Community
Craig Sharkie - Learning to love libraries
Lisa Herrod - RSS to the RSScue
Steve Baty - tinyURL and trust relationships online

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 18 October, 2007: October meeting (Sydney); Jo Kay talks about Second Life and Mick Liubinskas talks about Web Apps: A Trillion Tiny Transactions.

Thursday 04 October, 2007: October Meeting (Melbourne); John Cheng and David Patkin from Berrigan Doube lawyers: Get It In Writing!

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 02 August, 2007: August meeting (Sydney); Christy Dena: "Thinking Outside the Web" and Scott Parsons: "Ambient Personalization". Sponsored by Sydney Web.

Thursday 02 August, 2007: August Meeting (Melbourne).; The Great Webate #1: "Great Web Controversies"; 2 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 07 June, 2007: June meeting (Melbourne); Shane Morris (Microsoft): "Designers and developers - learning to get along"; 3 comments

Thursday 31 May, 2007: May meeting (Sydney); Shane Morris, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft
"Designers and developers - learning to get along"
Patrick Kennedy, User experience architect, Step Two Designs
"Intranets - why you should care?"

Thursday 31 May, 2007: May meeting (Canberra); John Allsopp (Westciv) on microformats, plus Brian Hardy (Vision Australia) on the accessibility of PDF files

Thursday 03 May, 2007: May Meeting (Melbourne); Roger Hudson (Exploring Tag Clouds) and Russ Weakley (Letting Users Create Their Own Experience); 1 comment

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

Tuesday 20 March, 2007: March meeting (Sydney); Ted Patrick is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe Systems. Earle Castledine - Yahoo Pipes.

Thursday 01 February, 2007: February meeting (Melbourne); James Edwards (Brothercake) on "What has Ajax done for us anyway?"; 1 comment

Thursday 25 January, 2007: January meeting (Sydney); Four speakers, 20 mins each:
Cheryl Lead - Life after code
Lachlan Hunt - The Future of HTML
Dmitry Baranovskiy - Typography on the Web
Scott Gledhill - Corporate Semantics; 1 comment

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

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