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Friday 14 September 2007
9:30am Web 2.0 – Designing usable Web 2.0 applications to improve citizen-centric approach
Good content facilitates communication and the exchange of information. It should be managed to extend its reach and engage the audience in a dynamic conversation. Treated in this way, content improves over time rather than degrades. Web 2.0 optimised technologies try to engage the user by making the experience fun and rewarding, and asks the users to invest their creativity in order to build resources.
- Utilising Web 2.0 applications such as wikis, blogs, RSS and pod casting to build citizen-centric online communities
- Supporting your web content and business processes using best technologies
- Providing a greater capacity for interaction with web users
- Developing a strong business case based on articulating tangible benefits
Speaker: John-Paul Syriatowicz, Managing Director – Squiz
Presentation: Download Web 2.0 presentation. (PowerPoint Presentation. Contains video elements. 6.9MB)
10:15am Case Study Presentation – Australian Sports Commission Using MySource Matrix as a platform to build community sites
The Australian Sports Commission, like many government agencies, is exploring collaborative technologies. The Sports Knowledge Network and National Coach and Athlete Career & Education Online are two projects that showcase how MySource Matrix can help build community sites where users can contribute their own content and remain connected with other users. Some of the features of the project sites include:
- Configuring RSS feeds
- Managing a profile space
- Keeping track of favourite topics
- Tagging content for improved discoverability
Speaker: Pat Birgan, Web Services Manager – Australian Sports Commission
Presentation: Download ASC presentation. (PowerPoint Presentation. 1.3MB)
11:00am Morning Tea
11:30am MySource Matrix Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts
MySource Matrix has a powerful administration interface and a flexible feature set, but even the most seasoned administrator may be unaware of some of the features that the CMS provides. Learn to master MySource Matrix and its administration interface by:
- Improving the performance of your system
- Making better use of the asset map for asset administration
- Customising the administration interface with preferences
- Utilising features you didn’t know existed
Speaker: Greg Sherwood, Product Development Manager
Presentation: Tips and trick manual provided in the conference packs.
12:00pm Website Accessibility – Can you buy your own can of baked beans?
The internet provides an unprecedented level of access to information and services, everything from schools to local government to buying a can of baked beans. And everybody can access the Internet so everybody has access to these services, right? Nope! For about 25% of the population there are barriers on the Internet that makes it difficult or even impossible to access some of these services.
- Who is affected? This is not just a disability issue
- What does the law say?
- The principles of accessible design
- Content is important too!
Speaker: Bruce Aylward, CEO - W 3 A Ltd.
Presentation: Download Accessibility Presentation. (PowerPoint Presentation. 3.2MB)
12:25pm Access to websites – how design makes all the difference
Have you ever asked yourself who is actually accessing your website? Do you have a typical user in mind when you design your site? Or do you expect that anybody who wants to can get the information they need and which you want them to have from your site? Believe it or not, not everyone enjoys the same access to your websites. The presentation will outline:
- The kinds of barriers to access faced by a wide range of users and how you can ensure that you don’t raise those barriers
- The difference between a well-designed website and a poorly-designed site from my perspective as a blind
- person who uses a screen-reader
- The kinds of techniques you can use to make my experience a good one which will make me want to come back to your site again and again
Speaker: Neil Jarvis, Adaptive Technology Manager - Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind
Presentation: Live presentation of JAWS in operation so no slides available.
12:50pm Lunch
2:00pm MySource Matrix Feature Bazaar
Squiz has agreed to fund $150,000 worth of feature development. This fun and interactive event will let conference attendees participate in setting the priorities for this new development. These pages describe how the Bazaar operated and what was sold.