Vision Australia: Designing for an Accessible Website
Date: 19-Oct-07
City: Hobart Tas
Category: Accessibility
This workshops provides an introduction to accessibility issues within Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements, and an introduction to assessment tools and techniques.

WordCamp Melbourne
Date: 17-Oct-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: WordCamp
WordCamp Melbourne will be held in the 'Pavillion' at the Watermark Bar, Victoria Harbour Docklands on Saturday, November 17th from 12:00PM - 7:00 PM.

Vision Australia: Writing for the Web Workshop
Date: 09-Oct-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Content
This workshop will give you a good overview of the techniques that will make your web content more effective.

Bits and Pixels
Date: 29-Sep-07
City: Newcastle NSW
Category: Social
Its social networking Web 1.0 style!

Get together with Newcastle/Hunter/Central Coast web industry professionals and amateurs to discuss the goings on in the series of tubes.

Web Directions South 2007
Date: 25-Sep-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Developers
With more than 30 leading experts, including a dozen international stars of the web industry, across three tracks, Web Directions South will focus on the key technology and business issues of the web in 2007.

Search Engine Bootcamp - Brisbane
Date: 26th September 2007
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: SEO
Search Engine Bootcamp is a one-day Search Engine Marketing workshop. We cover all facets of search marketing over twelve educational sessions.

Our agenda is designed to maximise your knowledge on a wide range of search engine marketing techniques, topics range from how to get better organic index rankings through to understanding how to maximise your return on investment with Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Sensis pay per click search advertising products.

All of our speakers are industry experts who will guide you through each topic in an educational manor, Search Engine Bootcamps are held in classroom style environments and are all about information and education.

Vision Australia: Writing for the Web Workshop
Date: 26-Sep-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Content
This workshop will give you a good overview of the techniques that will make your web content more effective.

Oz-IA/2007
Date: 22nd/23rd September
City: Sydney NSW
Category: IA
Over the weekend of 22nd/23rd September 2007 there will be a conference on information architecture in Sydney, Australia. We plan a packed schedule of speaker presentations, panels, workshops, and inter-session activities. And of course, there's the opportunity to catch up with your peers, network your way to new contacts, and have a good time.

ACS: Make your Website more Customer-Centric!
Date: 13 September 2007
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: IA
Why the key to the success of your website is the relentless focus on the needs of your customer - and how to do it!

The web is about customer power! Whether you manage an intranet, university, government or commerical website - the principle of being customer-centric and not organisation-centric still applies. Practically all websites start as organisation-centric, but the better ones are making the shift and reaping the results!

ACS: Make your Website more Customer-Centric!
Date: 12 September 2007
City: Canberra ACT
Category: IA
Why the key to the success of your website is the relentless focus on the needs of your customer - and how to do it!

The web is about customer power! Whether you manage an intranet, university, government or commerical website - the principle of being customer-centric and not organisation-centric still applies. Practically all websites start as organisation-centric, but the better ones are making the shift and reaping the results!

Vision Australia: Writing for the Web Workshop
Date: 11-Sep-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Content
This workshop will give you a good overview of the techniques that will make your web content more effective.

ACS: Make your Website more Customer-Centric!
Date: 11 September 2007
City: Sydney NSW
Category: IA
Why the key to the success of your website is the relentless focus on the needs of your customer - and how to do it!

The web is about customer power! Whether you manage an intranet, university, government or commerical website - the principle of being customer-centric and not organisation-centric still applies. Practically all websites start as organisation-centric, but the better ones are making the shift and reaping the results!

ACS: Web Services Resources on the Web
Date: 05-Sep-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Web Services
An interactive session where the meeting attendees are involved in discussing:
- the merits of Web Services resources from the Internet that they have encounted;
- what type of Web Services resources they would like but haven't found yet; and
- how can the ACS Web Services SIG help in the search for Web Services Resources

The output of the meeting will be a HTML document with a categorised list of Web Services resources along with the comments from the attendees on their usefulness.

Peak Usability: Interaction design
Date: 05-Sep-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Usability
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web applications, intranet and internet sites.

Peak Usability: Web Application Design
Date: 04-Sep-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Design
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable.

AIMIA: The Future of Social Networking & User Generated Content
Date: 31-Aug-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Content
Due to an overwhelming response from the digital community for AIMIA's latest event, we will be holding a repeat session of this event.

The agenda will include:
- Professional Media VS User Generated Content
- Who is Generation C? And what are they doing?
- Social Networking VS Social Media
- The Voice of the Consumer: How to really listen.
- Content Host Liability for UGC
- The Future of Social Networking

Date: Friday, August 31

Time: Registration: 9:30am
Forum: 10:00am - 12:30pm

Venue: KPMG Auditorium
Address: Ground Level, 7- 11 Sussex St, Sydney
Price: Early Bird (Before July 31)
AIMIA Members: $50
Non-Members: $100

Standard (After July 31)
AIMIA Members: $60
Non-Members: $120

All prices include GST

Vision Australia: Designing for an Accessible Website
Date: 30-Aug-07
City: Perth WA
Category: Accessibility
This workshops provides an introduction to accessibility issues within Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements, and an introduction to assessment tools and techniques.

Peak Usability: Interaction design
Date: 29-Aug-07
City: Adelaide SA
Category: Design
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web applications, intranet and internet sites.

Vision Australia: Writing for the Web Workshop
Date: 28-Aug-07
City: Perth WA
Category: Content
This workshop will give you a good overview of the techniques that will make your web content more effective.

Peak Usability: Web Application Design
Date: 28-Aug-07
City: Adelaide SA
Category: Design
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable.

NSW Government Website Directives Forum
Date: 28-Aug-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Government
WIPA is presenting a forum on the NSW Government Website Style Directive that was released at the end of last year.

Step Two Designs: Information Architecture Fundamentals
Date: 24th August 2007
City: Sydney NSW
Category: IA
One-day workshop run by Patrick Kennedy of Step Two Designs. This workshop will present an introduction to information architecture
(IA), the core methodology for organising and designing information-rich websites and intranets. Fundamental principles will be covered, along with a hands-on exploration of practical techniques. A must for all web teams.

Peak Usability: Interaction design
Date: 24-Aug-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Usability
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web applications, intranet and internet sites.

Vision Australia: Designing for an Accessible Website
Date: 24-Aug-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Accessibility
This workshops provides an introduction to accessibility issues within Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements, and an introduction to assessment tools and techniques.

Peak Usability: Web Application Design
Date: 23-Aug-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Design
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable.

AIMIA: Design-Led Innovation
Date: 22-Aug-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Design
Companies throughout the world have recognised that "user experience" lies at the core of continued success - hence the creation of new roles for user experience professionals.

In this presentation Shane Morris, User Experience Evangelist for Microsoft Australia, will discuss how he sees design leading innovation in consumer and enterprise markets into the future.

Join your peers in design, technology and interactive media to learn from and be inspired by one of the leading thinkers in our industry as he challenges the way you view the role of the user in design and innovation.

Event Details
Date: Wednesday 22 August
Time: 6:15pm (for 6.30pm start) - 7.30pm

Costs:
$35 AIMIA Members
$45 AIIA/AFA Discount
$55 Non- Members

Venue: Spring St Conference Centre
Venue Address: 1 Spring St, Melbourne (enter via Flinders Lane)
Sponsored by: Microsoft

Peak Usability: Interaction design
Date: 22-Aug-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Usability
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web applications, intranet and internet sites.

Communications Consumer Congress
Date: 22 August 2007
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Technology
How will consumers gain the benefits that future communication technologies will provide? Join representatives from consumer groups and those interested in discovering the likely impact of future communication technologies on consumers. The Communications Consumer Congress will focus on how Australia will achieve equitable access.

Peak Usability: Web Application Design
Date: 21-Aug-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Design
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable.

AIMIA: The Future of Social Networking & User Generated Content
Date: 21 August 2007
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Content
The agenda will include:
- Professional Media VS User Generated Content
- Who is Generation C? And what are they doing?
- Social Networking VS Social Media
- The Voice of the Consumer: How to really listen.
- Content Host Liability for UGC
- The Future of Social Networking

SOLD OUT

AWIA: WA Web Awards
Date: 17-Aug-07
City: Perth WA
Category: Awards
The WA Web Awards is an offical event organised by AWIA, the Australian Web Industry Association (formerly Port80 Inc), as a showcase of the outstanding work of West Australian web designers and developers.

2007 will be the third year that the WA Web Awards programme has run.

AWIA member: $110
Non-member: $130
Students: $80

Black Tie event

IT Fund for Kids: 'Know IT All Dinner'
Date: 16-Aug-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Social
The IT Fund for Kids invites you to join Australia's leading IT&T companies including Microsoft, Multimedia Victoria, e-CentricInnovations, KPMG, Intel, eBay and Dimension Data to compete in its "Know IT All" Dinner Challenge taking place for the first time in Victoria. Join Australia's IT companies - purchase tables of ten and compete against each other to ascertain who really is the ultimate industry 'Know IT All'!

Webjam
Date: 15-Aug-07
City: Perth WA
Category: Social
That's right, the next Webjam event will be held in Perth! There is an amazing amount of cool web stuff happening in Western Australia and we want to help them show it off.

Search Engine Bootcamp
Date: 9th August 2007
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: SEO
Search Engine Bootcamp is a one-day Search Engine Marketing workshop. We cover all facets of search marketing over twelve educational sessions.

Our Melbourne event has a international guest speaker from the US - search marketing industry legend Bruce Clay, Bruce will be running a session on the fundamentals of good SEO practice.

Our agenda is designed to maximise your knowledge on a wide range of search engine marketing techniques, topics range from how to get better organic index rankings through to understanding how to maximise your return on investment with Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Sensis pay per click search advertising products.

All of our speakers are industry experts who will guide you through each topic in an educational manor, Search Engine Bootcamps are held in classroom style environments and are all about information and education.

education.au: Generation MySpace - Social Networking and its impact on students and education
Date: 08-Aug-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Content
Keynote speaker - Danah Boyd

Danah Boyd is an internationally recognised authority on the way people use networked social media. She has studied how people develop online identities and how they use them to socialise on the Internet.

education.au: Generation MySpace - Social Networking and its impact on students and education
Date: 06-Aug-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Content
Keynote speaker - Danah Boyd

Danah Boyd is an internationally recognised authority on the way people use networked social media. She has studied how people develop online identities and how they use them to socialise on the Internet.

ACS: RESTful integration vs WS-*
Date: 1 August 2007
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Technology
The Web is alive with furious debate on the future of integration. With the former new kid on the block - Web Services - being forced to contend with the jihadist fury of the upstart REST-based approach.

This talk will explore the fundamental REST concepts and show how they can be used to create robust integration solutions - with all those -ilities that we love, but without all the complex middleware.

We'll explore how RESTful solutions can be applied to enterprise domains used by real developers writing with those "boring" statically typed languages, rather than just the Ruby fanboys (though fanboys will also be well catered for).

In a shocking conclusion we'll also see that REST done right and SOA done well are actually rather similar beasts...

Peak Usability: Usability evaluation and testing
Date: 26-Jul-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Usability
Discount evaluation techniques and how to conduct usability tests

Peak Usability: Web usability
Date: 25-Jul-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Usability
Introduction to User Centred Design tools and techniques

The Untapped Workforce: Attracting Women back into the Industry
Date: 19-Jul-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Recruitment
Jackie Cook, Managing Director of Priorities - Flexible Employment Strategies has found that companies who can offer flexibility in job design, work tasking and work-life balance have been able to significantly improve their recruitment and attraction programs. Hear Jackie's insights and experiences in helping companies establish flexible working arrangements to help you understand how the flexible workplace can be a success and tips for leading a multi-generational team.

Step Two Designs: Where collaboration tools fit in
Date: 03-Jul-07
City: Canberra ACT
Category: IA
With the rapid spread of collaboration tools such as SharePoint, the opportunity for new approaches to intranets and information management are being explored. More immediately, organisations are confronted with the fundamental question: where do collaboration tools fit in?

Perth BarCamp
Date: 30-Jun-07
City: Perth WA
Category: BarCamp
Perth BarCamp is on! So get your laptops ready, because you will need to being them down to Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth

Bits & Pixels
Date: 30-Jun-07
City: Newcastle NSW
Category: Social
A social get together for all web industry professionals and amateurs to discuss all things web over a beer, gin, coffee or whatever you prefer.

This is the first Bits & Pixels meet up so the format is completely open and free. Come along and spread the word.

Vision Australia: Web Accessibility Workshops
Date: 28-Jun-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Accessibility
These full-day workshops run by Vision Australia, are targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers.

Ausweb07
Date: 28-Jun-07
City: Coffs Harbour Qld
Category: Developers
The Thirteenth Australiasian World Wide Web Conference,

ReMix Australia
Date: 25-Jun-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Developers
Don't miss this two day event in Melbourne to help you rethink what you can create for the web and how. Choose from over 20 sessions hosted by leading industry heavy-weights.

Vision Australia: Writing for the Web Workshop
Date: 19-Jun-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Content
This practical workshop run by Vision Australia focuses on enhancing the usability and accessibility of your web content and will teach you how to communicate effectively with your readers.

Step Two Designs: Taxonomy and metadata strategies for effective content management
Date: 15-Jun-07
City: Canberra ACT
Category: IA
A one day masterclass run by Joseph Busch. Taxonomies are a hot topic, but what do they really mean? Joseph Busch is the recognised US expert on taxonomies, and in his first Australian tour he will be presenting real-world approaches and answers.

Step Two Designs: Taxonomy and metadata strategies for effective content management
Date: 12-Jun-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: IA
A one day masterclass run by Joseph Busch. Taxonomies are a hot topic, but what do they really mean? Joseph Busch is the recognised US expert on taxonomies, and in his first Australian tour he will be presenting real-world approaches and answers.

Webjam
Date: 07-Jun-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Social
If you've done something cool on the web lately, show the rest of us at the rockingest web event in town. We're looking for 16 presenters to show us their sharpest recent web work, but they only get three minutes on stage.

Sydney Python Users Group
Date: 07-Jun-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Social
On Thursday, June 7 2007, there will be a social gathering of Sydney Python Users Group and any individuals interested in discussing Python, Web, Ruby, Perl etc. Laptops, code review, show and tell etc allowed and encouraged.

We meet in the ground floor area next to P.J. O'Briens Pub internal entrance in the

Grace Hotel,
Cnr York and King Street
Sydney, New South Wales 2000

Designers and Developers: Learning to get along
Date: 07-Jun-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Developers
Shane Morris is a "User Experience Evangelist" at Microsoft. Shane has worked as an interaction designer/information architect/usability specialist since 1991.