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  <event>
    <city>Vancouver</city>
    <country>Canada</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-02-11</end-on>
    <full-description>Put together by designers and developers, for designers and developers, Web Directions North is brought to you by Dave Shea, Derek Featherstone, Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp. 

Over two days and nights, Web Directions North is packed tight with sessions by renowned, inspiring, entertaining speakers and experts, parties, and more.

Come along and hear Kelly Goto, Andy Clarke, Adrian Holovaty, Douglas Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Joe Clark, Molly Holzschlag, Derek Featherstone, Veerle Pieters, Jeremy Keith and many other present and future web luminaries, covering Ajax and Javascript, CSS, Microformats, mashups, standards based web design and development, accessibility, web app development, XHTML and HTML and more. 

Beginning with an optional day of workshops from some of the web&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s best educators, and rounded off with two optional days of skiing and boarding at Whistler, Web Directions North is 2007&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s web design and development event not to be missed.

Register until December 31 for just $CDN895 (about USD$770), and includes two tight-packed, fully catered days of renowned speakers, an offical reception and closing night party.

Workshops are just $CDN395 (~USD$340) for a full, fully catered day with world experts Andy Clarke and Aaron Gustafson, Derek Featherstone, or Kelly Goto.

For conference attendees and their family, each day at Whistler is just $CDN120 (~USD$100, including transfers too and from Whistler and Vancouver, and lift tickets)</full-description>
    <id type="integer">150</id>
    <region>Canada</region>
    <short-description>Be part of what promises to be one of 2007&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s best web designer and developer events. A two day conference with an optional day of workshops, and two optional days at Whistler, is not to be missed.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-02-06</start-on>
    <title>Web Directions North</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://north.webdirections.org</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/150</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/150/logo.png</logo-url>
    <tag-string>accessibility, ajax, apis, css, design, development, google, html, ia, mashups, microformats, mobile, ux, web20, webapps, webstandards, workflow, yahoo</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>San Francisco</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-10-26</end-on>
    <full-description>Now grab the chance to listen to, learn from and mingle with your favorite New Riders authors and the most respected professionals in the Web design industry at Voices That Matter: Web Design, a conference hosted by New Riders.

As a Web designer, you understand the challenges you face. Gone are the days when a good grasp of HTML and some straightforward usability knowledge would get the job done. Now your clients want to know that you're comfortable with CSS, XML, Ajax, Web standards, interaction design, information architecture, interface design, Search Engine Optimization, Flash, Flex, JavaScript, mobile design, mash-ups and much more.

At Voices That Matter: Web Design, our lineup of speakers, including Jakob Nielsen, Steve Krug, Jeremy Keith, and many more, will teach you new techniques; some will show you how to avoid the potholes and pitfalls in how-to sessions; still others will inspire you to try new pathways in creative, energizing, thought-provoking, idea-driven sessions.

Entertaining, informative, authoritative, but most of all, inspiring, Voices That Matter: Web Design will bring you face-to-face with the authors whose books have shaped your career.

Register now at www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2007!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">315</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>Listen to, learn from and mingle with your favorite New Riders authors and the most respected professionals in the Web design industry, including Jakob Nielsen, Steve Krug, and Jeremy Keith and more.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-10-22</start-on>
    <title>Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2007</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/315</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/315/VTMWeblogo.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>ajax, conference, css, design, dreamweaver, flash, graphic design, html, javascript, photoshop, search engine optimization, web, web design, xml</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Pittsburgh</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-02-27</end-on>
    <full-description>Our next meeting will at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, February 26 at the Creative Treehouse in Bellevue.

Cynthia Closky from Big Big Design will be presenting "Google-Friendly Blogging in Five Easy Steps." She'll be discussing basic search engine optimization for WordPress -- and by extension, other blog tools. There are lots of misconceptions about SEO in the first place, and there are some simple steps one can take to improve one's search ranking.

Next, Jeff Hunter, organizer of Devhouse Pittsburgh will be presenting introduction to Ruby. Jeff will show us what it is, why you may want to consider using it for your next project. When I asked Jeff if was interesting in presenting, I asked him to explain "What the heck is ruby and why do I keep hearing about it (and why do people yell at me when I confuse ruby and ruby on rails?!?)" So you can expect to get answers to those questions too!

Our friends at O' Reilly Publishing have provided us with a few Ruby books as giveaways for the night as well.

Finally, if anyone would like to show off a recent project or pose a few questions to our group, please drop me line!

As usual, we should have a good supply of coffee and cookies and other sweets to get you through the night. Depending out what time we wrap up, we can try to take the conversation down to Affagoto's.
RSVP

Please RSVP to let us know if you will be joining us. I need to make sure we have enough seats and most importantly, coffee! And by all means, please forward this invitation to anyone you like.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">417</id>
    <region>PA</region>
    <short-description>Refresh Pittsburgh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet developers in the Pittsburgh area.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-02-26</start-on>
    <title>Refresh Pittsburgh February Meetup</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/417</url>
    <logo-url></logo-url>
    <tag-string>css, html, ruby, ruby on rails, seo, web design, web development, web standards</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Nashville</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-06-14</end-on>
    <full-description>You've read their books. Now you're ready for more. Come and join the conversation at the Voices that Matter: Web Design Conference coming to the Loews Vanderbilt in Nashville this June! You&#8217;ll learn from and mingle with the industry&#8217;s most respected authors and meet peers from all over the globe who are passionate about Web design!

http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2008

Circle these dates on your calendar&#8212;June 10-13, 2008&#8212;and reserve your seat early to join us for the most well-rounded Web design event you&#8217;ll find anywhere! Get your difficult questions answered and gain insights from the industry&#8217;s brightest thinkers and practitioners during four days of entertaining, informative, and inspiring sessions. You&#8217;ll engage in thought-provoking discussions and participate in interactive networking activities to enhance your subject matter expertise and hone your professional skills. 
  
Two tracks (one creative and inspirational, one strategic and practical) mean there's always a session for you: whether you're looking for the up-in-the-clouds ideas that'll transform your work when the conference is over or the down-to-earth techniques that'll make your job easier every day. 

Don&#8217;t miss it! Save June 10 &#8211; 13 for the Voices that Matter: Web Design! Guarantee yourself a seat where you&#8217;ll come face-to-face with world class authors including:
&#8226;         Dan Brown 
&#8226;         Curt Cloninger 
&#8226;         Zoe Gillenwater 
&#8226;         Robert Hoekman, Jr. 
&#8226;         Jeremy Keith 
&#8226;         Steve Krug 
&#8226;         Penny McIntire 
&#8226;         Sandra Niehaus 
&#8226;         Joshua Porter 
&#8226;         Garr Reynolds 
&#8226;         Nathan Shedroff 
&#8226;         Aarron Walter 
&#8226;         Charles Wyke-Smith 
&#8226;         And many others!

To request more information, visit the online brochure at http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2008, call 617-848-7026, or email Barbara.Gavin@PearsonEd.com.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">430</id>
    <region>TN</region>
    <short-description>You've read their books. Now you're ready for more. Come and join the conversation at the Voices that Matter: Web Design Conference coming to the Loews Vanderbilt in Nashville,  June 10-13, 2008.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-06-10</start-on>
    <title>Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2008</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/430</url>
    <logo-url></logo-url>
    <tag-string>ajax, architecture, css, design, flash, html, information technology, interface, it, java, optimization, search engine, web, web design, web designers, web developers, web standards, xml</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Nashville</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-06-14</end-on>
    <full-description>As a Web designer, you understand the challenges you face. Gone are the days when a good grasp of HTML and some straightforward usability knowledge would get the job done. Now your clients want to know that you're comfortable with CSS, XML, Ajax, Web standards, interaction design, information architecture, interface design, Search Engine Optimization, Flash, Flex, JavaScript, mobile design, mash-ups and much more.

At Voices That Matter: Web Design, our lineup of speakers, including Steve Krug, Garr Reynolds, Jeremy Keith, and many more, will teach you new techniques; some will show you how to avoid the potholes and pitfalls in how-to sessions; still others will inspire you to try new pathways in creative, energizing, thought-provoking, idea-driven sessions.

Entertaining, informative, authoritative, but most of all, inspiring, Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference will bring you face-to-face with the authors whose books have shaped your career.

Register now at www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2008!
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">433</id>
    <region>TN</region>
    <short-description>You've read their books. Now you're ready for more. Come join the conversation at the Voices that Matter: Web Design Conference coming to the Loews Vanderbilt in Nashville this June! </short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-06-10</start-on>
    <title>Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/2008</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/433</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/433/weblogo.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>ajax, conference, css, design, dreamweaver, flash, garr reynolds, graphic design, html, javascript, new riders, photoshop, search engine optimization, steve krug, voices that matter, web, web design, xml</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Pittsburgh, PA</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-10-09</end-on>
    <full-description>We have three presentation on tap for this one:

Michael Fulk is a an interactive developer at Wall to Wall and also does freelance work as Future Designs. He&#8217;ll be presenting &#8220;Bending the Pipes&#8221; - which will give us a crash course on making mashups, feeds and recombining web content with Yahoo Pipes and Dapper.

Next, Olivia Blonde is a web designer at the University of Pittsburgh and previous worked at the Carnegie Libraries where she was responsible for the redesign of the Carnegie Library website. She&#8217;ll present &#8220;Design Process in a Nutshell&#8221;. Each designer &#8212; or design group &#8212; develops a method for solving problems, then evolves that method over time. While no one person or group may view a problem from the same perspective, general similarities often appear in their approach. Olivia&#8217;s presentation will take us from requirements to concepts to design and to hand off.

Finally, Isaac Gierard, a new media developer at Elliance with be showing off a recent project of his, a &#8220;CSS Combiner&#8221;. Isaac will give a brief introduction to a recently developed open source CSS preprocessor for combining multiple CSS files into on and it&#8217;s benefits for website performance.

Also, we&#8217;ll be giving away one free pass to the Flashpitt conference taking place the following Friday!

As usual, please RSVP and get more info at refrreshpittsburgh.org!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">535</id>
    <region>PA</region>
    <short-description>Refresh Pittsburgh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet developers in the Pittsburgh area.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-10-08</start-on>
    <title>Refresh Pittsburgh October Meetup</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/535</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/535/logo_small.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>html, pittsburgh, refresh, web development, xhtml</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Denver</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-02-06</end-on>
    <full-description>Web Directions is one of the world's leading conferences for web professionals, bringing together the leading experts from around the nation and around the world to educate, entertain and inspire our attendees.

Prices start at just $195 for workshops and $795 for the conference.

But for Boxes and Arrows readers, we have a special offer of just $745 before December 6th. Just sign up using the code WDN09BA.
 
Web Directions focusses on the professional development of web designers and developers, interaction designers, user experience professionals and other practitioners in the web arena, whether they work as a contractor, in a design agency, in small or large businesses, in government, education or the not-for-profit sector.

Web Directions covers established and emerging fields such as:

Web design &amp; development
Mobile design &amp; development
Accessibility
AJAX techniques
User Experience
RIA development
Web Application security
User Testing

Speakers include

Derek Featherstone
Nate Koechly
Dan Cederholm
Juliette Melton
Brian Fling
Nicole Sullivan-Haas
Ben Galbraith
Jina Bolton
Elliot Jay Stocks
Dave Shea

and many more.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">579</id>
    <region>CO</region>
    <short-description>Web Directions North, one of the world&#8217;s leading conference for web professionals, returns for 2009 - this year in Denver, Colorado, February 2&#8212;7</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-02-04</start-on>
    <title>Web Directions North 2009</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://north.webdirections.org</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/579</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/579/wdn-logo.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>ajax, css, html, ia, mobile, semantics, ux</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Wellington</city>
    <country>New Zealand</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-02-21</end-on>
    <full-description>Webstock is New Zealand's web conference, held in mid-February in Wellington.

Speakers for Webstock 09 include Bruce Sterling, Ze Frank, Jane McGonigal, Annalee Newitz, Derek Powazek and Heather Champ.

Webstock has established a reputation as one of the leading conferences in the world of its type for the web industry.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">534</id>
    <region>New Zealand</region>
    <short-description>5 full-on days. 8 hands-on workshops. 23 kickarse speakers. 26 must see presentations. Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web standards, content, community, innovation and inspiration</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-02-16</start-on>
    <title>Webstock</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://webstock.org.nz</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/534</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/534/webstock-logo.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>css, design, html, ia, informationarchitecture, user experience, web standards, webstock</tag-string>
  </event>
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