Web Conference

We're happy to announce that registrations for our conference - WE Believe In Community - are now open! Like last year we are keeping the ticket prices as low as possible. This conference is not about making money, it's about getting people together to share ideas and learn. Early Bird discount available until 10 July: only $475.00 +GST (that's a discount of $75.00!)

We are starting to plan the program for the Local Government Web Network Conference for 2009, so now is the time where we’d really like your feedback to help us make a better conference for you. To get your feedback in a more interesting way, we are taking a leaf out of Web Directions book, and launching an Ideas Forum. This will allow you to post ideas, comment on other people’s

Didn’t make the conference? Thanks to Viocorp you won’t miss out.

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!

Web Directions is running a number of workshops around the Web Directions South conference in September. Once of the workshops you may be interested for yourself and/or your colleagues and managers is the Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp. This is not a day about technology or code, but rather a deep exploration of the latest ideas, best practices, and techniques behind Web 2.0.

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.

We've managed to gather an awesome list of speakers for our first conference. Check out the session descriptions and bios on the speakers page now. 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!).

We've had a few queries about the conference, here's some of your questions answered...

Local Government Web Network Conference 2008: We believe in community

21 to 22 August 2008, Sydney NSW

REGISTER NOW TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS!

Reem and I have been working hard planning the conference and getting registrations up. On the conference page you'll now find more details including a map of the conference location and accommodation in Sydney.

Okay well you might miss them as its a bit late notice sorry (as we only launched the site yesterday), but just in case you can make it I wanted to tell you about 2 events happening this Friday and next Monday.

Okay the short version is that we're trying to create a wider web community within Local Government, and we're starting off with New South Wales as that's where we're based. We’re doing this by creating this site and also with a conference we’re planning in August this year.