Just launched is a new blog at Australia’s own Powerhouse Museum – Photo of the Day, showcasing some of the incredible photography created on a day by day basis by the museum’s photographers. Here you will see photography that goes far beyond that which simply documents museum’s collection, or is used for image sales. Seb […]
Yeah look, I can be irked by an HTML email as much as the next person, but step outside the rarefied atmosphere we all live and breathe for a moment and talk to some friends who work in just about any other sector and you’ll understand why they just aren’t going to disappear any time […]
I’m kind of guessing that all of you who have looked up anything on Wikipedia in the last 24hrs will have seen the link to Why Wikipedia Does Not Run Ads. Check it out if not. It has some really strong arguments about how destructive the injection of cash could be into a commons based […]
Web Directions attendee Kate Raynes-Goldie has started a pervasive gaming company over in Perth – Giant Dice. Their first Perth venture, a mobile locative game called Ghost Town, will be held from December 2-9, as part of the ByteMe! Festival of digital content. Mobile locative games are an extension of online gaming into the physical […]
OK, let me preface this by saying that my care factor for cricket per se is barely measurable on on the non quantum level. What does interest me though is people’s obsessive fascination with the game. An obsessive fascination that leads to this fine bit of work by Myles Eftos, an unholy alliance between cricinfo […]
Isn’t it funny how you will have never been to a particular city in your life, and then you find yourself going there twice in just a few months? I had a great time checking out Perth and Margaret River back in August when the good people from Western Australian Web Awards were kind enough […]
Mark Pesce’s closing keynote, Mob Rules, was definitely one of the high points of Web Directions South this year. Most of you have probably had a look at the transcript, and maybe even listened to the MP3. But what’s really great is that Mark has gone to the trouble to match the slides up with […]
I’d say you’ve been following the podcasts of the presentations from Web Directions South as they come onstream, and we’ve also gathered together a lot of the slides into the resources site. But something new and supercool has just come online: Scott Gledhill has gone the extra mile and used Slideshare to turn his presentation […]
Got wind of a really cool Aussie project today: The Footprints Network. This is a great little system to easily funnel micropayments from any online store’s customers to genuinely needy organisations the world over. There’s an approval process to join the network, but then you get an API that you can integrate with your payment […]
Folksonomies, mashups, data visualisation, UCD, usability, experimentation? One of the speakers from Web Directions South this year, Sebastian Chan from the Powerhouse Museum, just got in touch this morning to say his team is looking to fill a couple of developer roles. Sebastian’s presentation – Social Media and Government 2.0 – was one of the […]
Wig meets Web (2.0): harnessing the law to commercialise and protect your IP MP3 of presentation – to come Presentation slides – to come Session description About Scott Buchanan and Ben Maguire Session description Innovation and development in web 2.0 moves ever faster, the law as slow as always. So how can you best harness […]
Making Links 2007 is one of Australiaís leading forums for workers and activists in the not-for-profit sector to share skills and information relating to website development, online campaigning, online social networking and community building, and other ICT issues. The conference is in Sydney, October 30th – 31st This year the two day conference focuses on […]
Just a quick note for all those who have been emailing us asking after these. As many of them as we can gather together will be posted at the site real soon now. It does take a little time to contact all the speakers and get their slides and notes from them, and to get […]
A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.
So you work at enterprise level. Lots of stake holders, lots of competition for time, need to deliver to multiple demands that…POP up. All projects incur change over time, that’s the way of the world. Using a benefits driven approach to delivery rather than a process driven or methodology governed approach frees the team to think laterally, and be responsive to client demands.
A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.
In this session, Angela Beesley will explain how Wikia is not only hosting but actively developing wikis and creating hundreds of thriving communities. The methods and processes that have led Wikipedia to be the world’s largest encyclopedia can be adopted for any type of wiki use, including educational and business communities. Using examples from successful online wiki communities, Angela will explain how to enable a wiki community to manage itself, and how to minimise the common problems that wikis have, including ways to deal with unhelpful or unreliable information, lack of adoption of a wiki, and the problems of malicious edits on open wikis.
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
