Sessions

A River Runs Through the Digital Divide: Women Using Global Communications Technology to Shift the Balance of Power

Speaker: Jensine Larsen
Friday, May 23 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Could women with cell phones be the earth's greatest engine for global development? Women, powerful agents of change, are rapidly rising ... more

Avoid the Venture Capital Trap: Fund Your Own Business

Speaker: Matt Haughey
Thursday, May 22 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

The Pros and Cons of taking funding while building your online business will be covered, with an emphasis on going the ... more

Best Practices for Permission-Based Email Communication

Speaker: Mark Wyner
Thursday, May 22 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am

Permission-based email communication is not email marketing. But in a virtual world riddled with spam, the gray area between the ... more

Blogging For A Living: Taking Your Skills To The Next Level

Speaker: Jim Turner
Thursday, May 22 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am

Blogging has been a new phenomena and companies and businesses are now looking to make this a part of their ... more

Convergence 2.0: The Seamless User Experience

Speaker: Tjeerd Hoek
Friday, May 23 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Media convergence connects the worlds of telecoms, Internet, and computing, including fixed-mobile convergence, voice-and data convergence, and—most importantly—three-screen-convergence. Messaging convergence ... more

CSS Transformation

Speaker: Christopher Schmitt
Friday, May 23 - 10:30 am to 11:45 am

Every designer is familiar with the common applications of CSS, like image rollovers and layouts, but now move into the ... more

Data Portability, Privacy and Identity: Welcome to the Open Web

Speaker: Scott Kveton
Friday, May 23 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am

Over the last few years we've seen a proliferation of technologies that are effectively opening up the Web in ways ... more

Design is in the Details

Speakers: Bryan Veloso, Dan Rubin
Thursday, May 22 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm

Sometimes the smallest things make the largest impact. Many times, what separates a great design from a good design is ... more

Designing for Video Game Marketing

Speaker: Andi Rusu
Thursday, May 22 - 10:30 am to 11:45 am

Every industry has its own challenges and rewards. Designing for the video game industry is no different. Incorporating game narrative, ... more

Designing Social Media: Interface Tricks and Tips

Speaker: Christina Wodtke
Friday, May 23 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Social Web sites have unique design needs. The design must invite participation and connecting, yet the participants themselves determine the ... more

Designing the Future Web

Speaker: Jeffrey Veen
Friday, May 23 - 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

Designing for the Web of today - and tomorrow - requires an increasingly diverse set of skills: grappling with complex data, ... more

Drupal: This Aint Your Father's CMS

Speaker: Sean Larkin
Thursday, May 22 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Drupal is arguably the world's leading open source content management system. However, Drupal is much more than a CMS. In ... more

Faster, Cheaper, Better

Speaker: David Verba
Friday, May 23 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am

The costs of building applications, particularly Web applications, have been decreasing dramatically. It takes fewer people spending less time and ... more

From Idea to Implementation and Beyond: Getting Started with Rails

Speaker: Jim Meyer
Friday, May 23 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm

Rails is undeniably the fastest path from idea to implementation for Web applications, all the more so due to its ... more

Going Fast on the Slow Mobile Web

Speaker: Jason Grigsby
Friday, May 23 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am

There are 3.3 billion mobile devices in the world—that is one for half the world's population. The number of mobile ... more

Hacking the Enterprise with Social Media

Speaker: DL Byron
Thursday, May 22 - 10:30 am to 11:45 am

Byron will discuss how the enterprise is being hacked by blogs, wikis, Google apps, and anyone with a few bits ... more

Inching from Mediawiki to Rails on a High Traffic Site

Speakers: Brandon CS Sanders, Stephen Judkins
Thursday, May 22 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

AboutUs.org developers describe the technical, organizational, operational and entrepreneurial consequences of their piece-wise replacement of Mediawiki PHP with fresh code written in Rails. more

Is Print Dead? How Digital Media is Changing the Face of Publishing

Speaker: Lynne d Johnson
Thursday, May 22 - 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

Mobile phone. Audiobook. Ereader. Social Media. Widget. What do these all have in common? Each of these forms of digital ... more

Making Multi-user Life-like

Speaker: Phillip Kerman
Thursday, May 22 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am

How can you take what makes good multi-user experiences and use it to create living Web sites? In this session ... more

Networking Things: How the Internet is Redefining Environmentalism

Speaker: Alexis Madrigal
Friday, May 23 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm

Green tech venture fundings are going to surpass Internet fundings this year, but you don't need a new skill set ... more

Overcoming Death by PowerPoint

Speaker: Dave Yewman
Thursday, May 22 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm

It's often called Death by PowerPoint. It's also known as Show Up and Throw Up. You know who they are; ... more

Responsible Web Design

Speaker: Scott Fegette
Thursday, May 22 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm

Web design methodologies are constantly evolving, but the larger patterns they generate are undeniable. In this session, we'll take ... more

So You Want to Run a Startup

Speaker: Rashmi Sinha
Friday, May 23 - 10:30 am to 11:45 am

Ten lessons from running a social Web site.Rashmi will talk about her experiences building and running SlideShare. Including the launch ... more

Star Wars Kid Is Your New Bicycle: The Changing Lives of Memes

Speaker: Andy Baio
Friday, May 23 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm

How do ideas spread online, and how has that changed in five years? Using hard data from primary sources, we'll ... more

Tagging: Emerging Trends and Techniques

Speaker: Gene Smith
Friday, May 23 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am

Tagging has been the subject of much discussion over the last several years, including presentations at WebVisions ‘06. But recent ... more

Tap is the New Click

Speaker: Dan Saffer
Friday, May 23 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm

Even though the technology has been around for decades, only now are we starting to see mass production and adoption ... more

The Experience Economy and Hybrid Desktop-Internet Applications

Speaker: Kevin Hoyt
Thursday, May 22 - 10:30 am to 11:45 am

The Internet has become a vital part of everyday life. The web has changed everything - sometimes for the better, ... more

The Future of Web Design: Why Your CEO Should Care

Speaker: Kerry Bodine
Friday, May 23 - 10:30 am to 11:45 am

With more access to information, more sensitivity to price, and less sensitivity to advertising, customers are getting harder to win ... more

The Importance of Emotional Connections in Interactive Design

Speaker: Dan LaCivita
Thursday, May 22 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am

Visitors, users and audiences. Regardless of what we call them, as interactive designers we need to look at ways to ... more

The Language of Interaction

Speaker: Bill DeRouchey
Friday, May 23 - 10:30 am to 11:45 am

We are interacting with technology in an exploding number of forms. "Traditional" computers, cell phones, pocket PDAs, game systems, gesture-based input, store ... more

The Web is Dead

Speaker: Roger Black
Friday, May 23 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm

Some HTML nativists cringe, but online media is moving beyond the Web. YouTube is the best example, but now there ... more

Total Recall: Complementing Information Architecture with Instructional Design for Memorable Web Experiences

Speakers: James Keller, Sean Cowne
Thursday, May 22 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

This presentation will explore the similarities and differences of effective information architecture and instructional design and will demonstrate how instructional ... more

User Experience Best Practices

Speaker: Nick Finck
Thursday, May 22 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Nick will explore the best practices of user experience by reviewing some of the most popular and highly trafficked websites ... more

Visual & Creative Thinking – How to Give Your Company the Competitive Edge

Speakers: Erica O'Grady, Kelsey Ruger
Friday, May 23 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am

Explore the power of Passion, Imagination, Creativity, Exploration, and Experimentation in your Organization. Visual thinking is the hallmark of creativity, ... more

Web Site Optimization in Seven Easy Steps

Speaker: Kimberly Blessing
Friday, May 23 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Think optimization is only for the big sites out there? Whether your site is small, mid-sized, or enterprise-scale, you (and ... more

What Is Given & What Is Made: Montage & Web Service Design

Speaker: TBA
Thursday, May 22 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm

How do you make a whole experience out of fragments? In this session, we'll look to collage and montage ... more

What You Need to Know About IE8 and Standards

Speaker: Aaron Gustafson
Friday, May 23 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Internet Explorer 8 features a completely rewritten rendering engine authored to the CSS 2.1 spec. It also features an updated ... more