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15 June 2009

WE Believe in Community 09

Over the last few years, I’ve been able to make a case for attending the Web Directions conference in Sydney. Training is rarely inspiring, unless you’re listening to people like Doug Bowman, Joe Clark, John Allsopp, Cameron Adams, Jeremy Keith or Andy Clarke.

But government has its own challenges. It can’t cut corners or take risks like private or business startups (not necessarily a bad thing) and it doesn’t have the benefit of a neutral (at worst) or evangelist (at best) constituency with which to work. So last year’s LG Web Network conference was fantastic.

Prior to the network, supported by the LGSA, I wasn’t unique in having little or no contact with fellow local government web workers in NSW. Professional groups in this field favour IT managers and administrators. Kudos to the prime movers, Diana Mounter, LGSA Design and Development Coordinator, and Reem Abdelaty, LOC&L Program Director.

Registrations are now open for this year’s conference in August.

I’m looking forward to hearing Jason Ryan of the N.Z. State Services Commission on Government 2.0 without the bullshit (my words) and attending the sessions on WCAG and digital recordkeeping. But most of all, talking with LG web people. (And it’d be great if more library people joined the network.)

Register now at WE Believe in Community 09.

— b3rn   community of practice, web teams   Jun 15, 05:39 PM   #

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