Here’s the next set of Webstock 09 recordings:
Pamela Fox – Client Killed the Server Star: The new client/server model
Derek Featherstone – Accessibility Beyond Compliance
Annalee Newitz – Your Business Plan Is Science Fiction – And That’s a Good Thing
Joshua Porter – Designing Sign Up Screens & Flows
Toby Segaran – Why Semantics?
Enjoy! The remaining conference recordings will be posted next week.
We’re delighted to have Garr Reynolds back in Wellington for three Presentation Zen workshops to be run on 8,9,10 July. The 10 July workshop is an advanced one for those who have attended a previous workshop with Garr.
Garr is on a crusade to make presentations more interesting, useful and relevant. His blog is widely-read and his Presentation Zen book was ranked #3 on Amazon’s Top-10 Business books of 2008.
Those who attended Garr’s workshops here last year uniformly raved about the quality of the teaching and the lessons and tips they learned. These workshops are a chance to learn from one of the world’s best teachers on presentation.
It’s simple. You’ll leave feeling more confident and assured about the presentation and talks you’ll need to give in the future. And presentation matters more than ever in today’s world. The ability to present well dramatically increases your chances of success and of conveying the information you want to get across. It’s a skill that can be learned, and these workshops will shortcut the time you require to become a good presenter.
The workshop will cover all aspects of presentations – from preparation to design to delivery. They are for everyone who needs to talk in front of an audience, big or small.
And there’s also an optional lunch where you can eat and hang out with Garr and the other participants in a relaxed setting.
You can register here for the workshop.
We’ve just posted the next group of recordings from Webstock 09 and with this most of the first day’s recordings are now available.
Here’s the new ones:
Cameron Adams – Programmers are the new creatives
Heather Champ – Shepherding Passionate Communities
Ze Frank – The explicit
Adrian Holovaty – A mashup case study: EveryBlock.com
David Recordon – Open, social web
Enjoy! And the next group of recordings will be available next week.
Rehab is always tough. Especially for Webstock who, let’s face it, enjoys many of those things that lead one to needing rehab occasionally. But we’re back – invigorated and rejuvenated and looking forward to the rest of the year.
Three years ago to the day, our first conference, Webstock 06 had just finished. Just under one year ago, Tash and I left our full-time jobs to work on Webstock. We’re not doing this with a multi-million dollar exit-strategy in mind; we’re not following a business plan and we’ve long given up hopes of world domination! But along with our partners, Deb and Ben, we’re having an absolute blast trying to do something good in this industry we so believe in. Good in the sense of making a difference (hopefully), and good in the sense of quality. We want to provide events and experiences that really matter to people and we want to show that this can be done in New Zealand as well as anywhere in the world.
This relaunched site, along with the ONYA web awards and the revitalised FullCodePress competition, is a lot of what we’ve been working on for the past couple of months. We hope you enjoy it.
There’s now a shop to buy the oh-so-collectible Webstock merchandise (dog not included). Recordings from our events are back online and over the course of the next few weeks we’ll be adding those from Webstock 09. And we’ve even embraced this new Web 20 thing, with embedded videos, user-generated tags and commenting. W00t!
We’ll also be launching the Webstock Master Class series of workshops very soon with the wonderful Garr Reynolds coming back in early July.
And don’t forget to mark February 15-19 in your diaries for Webstock 2010!
Here’s a roundup of what you said about Webstock. We hope you enjoy the reading. And if there’s a blog post we’ve missed, please add it in the comments.
Designing and Sustaining Creative Communities
Online community management 101
Day One Mastering CSS & HTML
Day Two Agile Goodness
Day Three Accessibility and Ajax
Webstock day one
An Australian perspective
Nix online legalese, says Flickr
Ze Frank: Hot or Not?
Web/community
Games are the food of life
Shine a light on me
When Sterling attacks
How to Improve the Web
Medieval gobbledegook, modern oxymorons
Week of geek
So that was Webstock
What I learnt
On Webstock and life
Peace, love and a eulogy for Web 2.0
Webstock 2009 – A Look Back In Anger
I went to Webstock and I all got was a brown t-shirt
What we learned at Webstock
Why Webstock rocks
Tools for the Online Community Circle
Webstock 2009 – Roger Hudson
Webstock 2009 – Xero
This is why Webstock rocks
I love you Webstock 09
My take on Webstock 09
thoughts on webstock
Webstock 09
So that was Webstock 2009
Ben Kepes
Kalena Jordan
Kalena at SiteProNews
IdealogTV
Webstock video – Roger Hudson
Colin Jackson – live from Webstock [.mp3]
What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 – verbatim transcript
Javascript, the world’s most misunderstood programming language – it doesn’t matter that Javacript has nothing to do with Sun or Java!
Bruce Sterling at Webstock
It’s Turtles All the Way Down
Why Does Bruce Sterling Hate Web 2.0?
Sterling rant goes viral