Pushing the boundaries on content-rich websites
Date: 8 November 2008
Author: Russ Weakley
On the 6 November 2008 the inaugural Edge of the Web event was held in Perth.
The conference was organised by Australian Web Industry Association and Red Horizon Events, and boasted a great speaker list!
Here are the slides from my talk on “Pushing the boundaries on content-rich websites”.
The Australian Museum recently implemented a number of open-communication devices such as commenting, tags, user-generated content to their website. Integrating these devices on large, existing websites is not easy task. The diversity of audience, as well as indexing large amounts of existing data presents a number of challenges, however with more customers expecting an open information ecosystem more large sites are adding these tools. This presentation looks at some of the trials and tribulations that arose during the integration – information that can help other organisations embarking on a similar projects.
great Presentation Russ. I think your style of simplicity, clarity and focus was brilliant. One of the few presentation files that actually contains content worth reading.
@Joseph Ortenzi: Thanks for the kind words- was a lot of fun – especially abusing the audience during the presentation
Yeh seems that the abusing was your favourite part.
I am sure you were just over the fact that you brought the Sydney weather along with you and you could not finally see some sunlight.
But seriously it was one of the better discussions and im glad I went (especially seeing that the Government paid for it)
Jermayn – good to hear from you. Glad you came to my talk (and more glad you liked it). Thanks for commenting
Hehehe, awesome slideshow, as always. Thanks for sharing experiences!
@Ollie: Thanks
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@ Rus, thanks for backlinking to our blog.
Now we have the challenge to implement one of your open-communication devices on our website for engaging the web visitors or customers. Not evident for finding a good cause to get customers to post/participate on a company website.
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Hi Russ,
My 3 years old boy and I had great fun with your slideshow! I enjoyed the reading, he enjoyed the pictures. Cheers mate.
Sam
@Sam, glad you enjoyed. My kid like the images too – the sillier the better