2007-03-01 Date & Time: Wednesday, Feb 28th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EST. Cost: $50 per participant. Register for the session at http://www.earley.com. Please register by February 27th to ensure that you receive the instructions in time. Designing and implementing a practical and effective taxonomy always starts with a practical and effective set of project requirements. Whether you're developing or implementing a taxonomy, using in-house talent or creating a vendor/consultant request for proposal (RFP), you need to clearly scope the project and identify the application framework. When you get the ball rolling with a set of well-defined goals and requirements, you'll be more likely to end up with a result that meets your expectations. In this session, our speakers will offer practical insights into the requirements development process. We'll learn about: * Scoping your taxonomy project * Defining your application framework * Creating effective RFPs * Aligning project requirements with your goals and expectations Presenters: Seth Earley (Earley & Associates), Jie-hong Morrison (Computer Technologies Consultants, Inc.), Harry Ringwood (Philip Morris) 176 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call on developing taxonomy project requirements. 2007-02-28 true http://www.earley.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/176 information architecture, knowledge management, request for proposals, seo, taxonomy Pittsburgh USA 2007-12-12 We currently have 2 presentations for the evening: First, Jason Head will be presenting "10 Ways to Provide Top-Notch SEO Without Doing any Extra Work!"* Clients are always asking "how can I make it into the search engines". I'll show you how you can get results for your client by following rules of web standards, good design and taking advantage of one or two free tools along the way. (* Well, maybe a little bit of work...) Next, Founding Developer and CEO of JoinSources, LLC, Don Charlton will be joining us to show a very impressive project he has been working on here in Pittsburgh: Join Sources. For this presentation, "Let's JoinSources and Conquer Web Content" Don demos a new Web-based CMS meant to equally empower Web site developers, designers and their clients. They're also giving away free hosting and CMS usage to 50 JoinSources recruits who develop a site on the beta platform. I've seen a preview of the CMS and it's a sharp product. While it's always nice to see a creative and useful product developed in our own community, it's even better when it's soomething that we all may be able to put to great use. If you run a small business or do a good deal of freelance web-site work, you should make an effort to check this one out! Finally, we would like to add an additional short presentation for the evening. If you would like to present on a topic or show off a recent project, 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. Also, if anyone would like to stick around after the meeting and take the conversation down to Affagoto's that would be a good deal too! 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! 366 PA 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. 2007-12-11 false http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/366 cms, content management, creativity, css, design, seo, web standards, xhtml Pittsburgh USA 2008-02-27 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. 417 PA 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. 2008-02-26 false http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/417 css, html, ruby, ruby on rails, seo, web design, web development, web standards Philadelphia USA 2008-07-17 The first and only web design conference for IT Professionals working in Higher Education. Join us and meet world renowned experts in the fields of usability, user centered design, CSS, AJAX and many others. Designers, Developers, and Project Managers will all be able to benefit from the content presented over the course of two days. In addition to the formal presentations, you will have the opportunity to meet and interact with people building and designing web applications in all the same areas you do: Student Affairs, Faculty Issues, Administrative Procedures, and others. Topics covered will include AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies, usability testing, CSS, Web form design, content management systems, developing secure applications, SEO, usability, and presentation skills for IT professionals. The conference is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and has a focus on Web practices in higher education, but the topics covered are not especially unique to higher ed. All practitioners will get a lot out of the material. Seats are limited, so sign up today. The first 200 people to sign up will get a get to win a MacBook Air! 442 PA A two day conference focused on the unique challenges of web design and development in academia featuring Jared Spool, Eric Meyer, Luke Wroblewski, and many others. 2008-07-15 false http://www.med.upenn.edu/uiconf/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/442 ajax, css, eric meyer, higher ed, higher education, jard spool, luke wroblewski, phillychi, seo, university of pennsylvania, upenn, usability, web 20, web forms