Thanks to our sponsors Viocorp we’re able to provide you with audio recordings of nearly all the presentations from the conference. This is great for any of you who weren’t able to make it to the conference. We understand that distance can be an obstacle especially if you’re based in the outer reaches of New South Wales. It’s also great for those of you were able to be there to refer back to and listen to any of the presentations you didn’t see if you were in the other room!

We’re also happy to bring you a feature video podcast of our closing keynote speaker Lachlan Hardy, who presented on Local Government on the Open Web.

John Allsopp

Want to listen to them now? Okay, this is where you’ll find them:

They’re all linked from the speakers & preso’s page, so if you can’t remember who spoke on what, and who you want to listen do, you’ll find under the session descriptions the audio files are linked there in WMA and MP3 format.

http://lgwebnetwork.org/podcasts08/podcasts08.html - This page also just lists all the audio file recordings if you don’t want to sift through all the speaker sessions and bios.

What about slides?

We’ve encouraged all the speakers to put their slides up on slideshare, we haven’t got all of them, but we’ve linked all the ones we next to the audio file.

From Slideshare you can download or comment on the slides.

Russ Weakley

About Viocorp

Viocorp is one of Australia’s leading internet broadcasting companies. Specialising in the production and distribution of video and audio content directly to end users, Viocorp have the resources to deliver high quality multiple format output globally across the internet using Viostream.

Viostream has built a server-based architecture which allows the rapid and tailored encoding of your content into just about any format. This includes Windows Media, QuickTime, Flash, and 3GP videos. They can also provide low and high bandwidth options to make watching your media content accessible to a wider range of your website visitors.

VioTV is an Enterprise WebTV platform, ideal for creating niche communities of audio and video content.

For more information please go to www.viocorp.com

We really appreciate Viocorp giving us this opportunity to provide you the audio recordings, so thank you very much!

And don’t forget the Photos!

Cameron Adams

Check out ours and other peoples photos from the conference on Flickr.

If you took photos at the conference, upload them to Flickr and remember to tag them with lgwn08.

Lachlan Hardy, our closing keynote speaker at the We Believe in Community conference did an excellent presentation on Local Government on the Open Web. And to keep in the spirit of openness you can now view his presentation in full technicolour thanks to the wonders of online vide, and our Streaming and Podcast Sponsor: Viocorp.

If you’re interested in learning more about what the Open Web is, and how it can be applied in government and organisations, then watch the full video of Lachlan Hardy’s presentation: http://lgwebnetwork.org/podcasts08/Lachlan-Hardy.html

You can also view or download Lachlan’s slides on Slideshare.

Thanks to Viocorp who recorded the session and who are also providing audio podcasts of the other presentations - these will be up very soon and we’ll let you know when they’re available.

Thanks to Lachlan for this great presentation whilst standing under the heat of the camera lights, and thanks to all our speakers, looking forward to sharing your podcasts and slides soon!

Twitter

We’ll be using Twitter to provide an online message board during the conference. To make sure your posts appear tag them with #lgwn08 – you can use this to comment on the conference as it happens (positive and appropriate comments please!) you can also ask questions to the conference organisers, and suggest venues for meeting up after the conference . Watch posts from the conference at: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=lgwn08

What is Twitter? If you want to know more about Twitter then read my previous blog post on Twittering for Local Government. Or this is a great article on the benefits of using Twitter.

How can I post “tweets” during the conference?

During the conference we expect (if all goes according to plan) to have wireless connection so you can “Tweet” from your laptop, and you can also post tweets via SMS, unfortunately you can no longer receive updates via SMS in Australia (hopefully not for long), but the below options might be useful:

• m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones
• m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones
• TwitterMail works on email-enabled phones
• Cellity works on java-enabled phones
• TwitterBerry works on BlackBerry brand phones
• Twitterific works on iPhones

We’ll be projecting the twitter posts on a wall or a monitor somewhere at the conference so you can watch what’s being posted during the breaks (we’ll let you know where that is on the day).

Flickr your photos

Upload photos you take at the conference to Flickr and tag them with lgwn08.

If you’re not into photography then you can view photos by using the search on Flickr and typing in lgwn08 in the search box.

You’ll also be able to view our photos at: www.flickr.com/photos/lgwebnetwork

Hope to see you there tomorrow, if you can’t make it though then I hope you enjoy following us online.

Register now so you don’t miss out!

We Believe In Community: 21 - 22 August 2008

2 full days on web technologies, strategies, creativity, and standards. 12 sessions in 2 streams and 6 plenary sessions from some of the leading experts in the field from Industry and Government.

If you haven’t registered for tickets yet then now might be a good time! We’ve extended registrations for you late comers so that you’ll be able to get tickets (at a slightly increased rate) until Friday, 8 August 2008.

So get your skates on and don’t miss out on seeing our awesome list of speakers, here’s some you might not have seen that we’ve added to the list…

• Ben Buchanan a Frontend Architect for News Digital Media with experience in both the public and private sector, is our opening keynote speaker for day 2 of the conference. Ben will be talking about how one person can have an impact on an organisation.
• Russ Weakley chair of Web Standards Group and an expert in standards based
  development will be presenting on Efficient, maintainable, modular CSS. Russ will also be leading our panel discussion on Web Standards.
• Brian Hardy an experienced trainer from Vision Australia, is now running two sessions for us (thanks Brian!), one on Writing for the Web and a new session we’ve just added to the list on Making the Web Accessible - this session will focus on accessible solutions for forms and multimedia.
• Lachlan Hardy a Design Engineer at Atlassian, team lead behind Webjam events, and well known web standards expert. Lachlan will be our closing keynote speaker and will be well worth the wait!

But don’t take my word for it, come and see for yourselves and register now. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to meet with your peers and professionals, participate in discussion and debate, and come away inspired feeling a part of our new web community.

Okay sorry there’s a few gaps, we’re finalising a few details still but we’re nearly there. Organising the program was a bit like trying to solve a Rubik’s cube, but it’s looking pretty good now. If you want to know what sessions will be on which day have a look at the draft program (this could be changed before the conference but we’ll try and keep it as close to this as possible, we promise!).

Check out our hot list of speakers below: