Major Sponsor

Workshops

Registration and Welcome

Registration opens at 8:15am

 
20 August 2010 - 9:00am
Planning Alerts and Your Council

With Kat Szuminska

PlanningAlerts.org.au is the OpenAustralia Foundation's first foray into working with local council information from all over Australia. In this session we'll talk about how we repackage local government information in this popular free information service for the web and GPS and compass enabled phones (iphone 3gs and android).
Find out how the OpenAustralia foundation uses an open source approach to create this and other really useful websites, and how you and your planning department can benefit from it and maybe even contribute.

PlanningAlerts.org.au lets you see planning and development applications on notice near you.

20 August 2010 - 9:45am
Google Analytics

With Peter Evans

Full day workshop

Peter will spend the morning on an introduction to Google Analytics featuring:

  • Introduction to Web Analytics
  • About Google Analytics
  • Google Analytics Interface Features
  • Sharing Google Analytics Reports
  • Customizing the Dashboard
  • Using Annotations

In the afternoon more advanced topics will be covered such as:

  • Intelligence and custom alerts
  • Using Site Content and Navigation Reports
  • Understanding Goals and Funnels
  • Advanced Segments and Custom Reports
  • Using Filters and Regular Expressions

You are able to attend just one or both sessions.

20 August 2010 - 9:45am
Developing a Digital Strategy

With Damian Damjanovski

Full Day Workshop

Participants will learn and develop an understanding of the digital strategy process. They will learn how to plan and evaluate effective interactive communications, including
Internet advertising, search engines, email marketing and mobile marketing campaigns.

This workshop will enable you to develop skills in, and develop an understanding of:
• How to differentiate and develop a digital strategy from digital tactics
• Relevant issues in the process of digital communications from brief to success
• The role of different areas of digital communications (social media, search, display advertising, sites, etc) in the creation of your strategy
• Who the relevant service providers in each area of digital specialisation are
• The tools, methodologies and practices needed to understand the dynamics of digital communications
• How to apply the content of the workshop to local government and the public sector
 

20 August 2010 - 9:45am
An introduction to CSS3

With Russ Weakley

Half Day workshop

CSS3 may seem like it is a long way off, especially with legacy browsers still in use. However, this course will show you how you can apply aspects of CSS3 today. You will learn about Progressive Enrichment, CSS3 transitions, a range of powerful new selectors and the future of web page layouts.

This half-day introductory workshop will provide an overview of some of the key aspects of CSS3:

  • What is CSS3?
  • The CSS3 modules
  • CSS3 selectors and browser support
  • Vendor-specific properties
  • Color: opacity and alpha
  • Backgrounds: background-size, background-image
  • Borders: border-color, border-image, border-radius
  • Boxes: gradients, box-shadow
  • Fonts: @font-face, text-shadow
  • Layouts: multiple columns, media queries
  • Transforms
  • CSS3 online code generators

There will also be some quick hands-on exercises at various times throughout the session so make sure you bring along a laptop with some sort of text editor (Notepad++, Coda, TextMate, Dreamweaver etc) and a good browser (Firefox, Safari, Opera etc).

Conference Close

Conference closes at 3:30pm followed by drinks

Submitted by Administrator on 20 July 2010 - 9:16am