MIT WebPub: Recent Episodes
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Massachusettts Institute of Technology Web Publishers User Group. How-to's, trends, and best practices in the world of web publishing - writing, design, development and production
The web has grown in the past 15 years from simple text-based websites to complex interactive conversations. YouTube, blogs, wikis, RSS, Comments, Twitter, Facebook, Mobile Web, and countless other media compete for users’ attention. What are all these channels? Are you using them effectively and efficiently? How do you integrate your offline and online communication strategies? Web Engagement Management (WEM) is a concept to bridge business processes and technology to manage content, conversations, and messaging to enhance your digital presence. Our presentation will discuss how to use WEM to make decisions to position your organization for the rapidly changing world of the web! Please visit this podcast at http://webpub.mit.edu/2010/11/latest-presentation-now-available/
In June, the WordPress project released their latest and greatest version, version 3.0. While it’s true that 3.0 is just the number that comes after 2.9, 3.0 introduces a number of new features and new infrastructure, making it easier to power entire sites, or a network of sites, in addition to single blogs. With a survey of user-facing features as well as some quick live coding demos, this session will be full of useful information for those just starting out with WordPress and WordPress gurus alike. mitcho (Michael Erlewine) is a graduate student in Linguistics at MIT, but lives a parallel life in open web technology. He is currently collaborating with Automattic, makers of WordPress.com, on an A/B testing framework for WordPress and previously worked at Mozilla Labs. Please visit this podcast at http://webpub.mit.edu/2010/04/webpub-presentation-web-analytics-collecting-and-demystifying-data-now-available/
Who has the best practices for web app design and what do they do to make world-class applications? Jared will share the latest research in the techniques and methodologies that can make a huge difference. Please visit this podcast at http://webpub.mit.edu/2009/06/web-apps-with-jared-spool
Web design guru Scott Jehl from Boston's The Filament Group speaks on Access-Oriented Web Design: Building highly-interactive web apps that work for everyone. Scott specializes in website design and development, is a member of the jQuery and jQuery UI design teams, and runs WriteMaps, an application for planning websites. Please visit this podcast at http://webpub.mit.edu/2009/04/access-oriented-web-design/
Neal Kane, President of Libretto, Inc. shared his pointers on best practices for web writing at our March 2009 presentation. Neal is widely regarded as one of New England’s leading business writers and messaging strategists. He has worked on several MIT sites and campaigns, including the amazing MIT Campaign for Students, The Human Factor. Please visit this podcast at http://webpub.mit.edu/2009/03/words-for-the-web-with-neal-kane/
An impressive presentation by jQuery JavaScript library creator John Resig at our January 2009 WebPub meeting. John put a lot of work into preparing what was truly a lesson plan, and he delivered it very well. It was accessible to anyone in the audience, regardless of skill or experience level. Please visit this podcast at http://webpub.mit.edu/2009/01/jquery-john-resig-video/