I attended this conference a year ago and it was really a great event. You get the chance to rub shoulders with some well-known authors and web professionals. This is one of those conferences where you can run into both Jakob Nielsen and Steve Krug. Highly recommended!
Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana has an opening for a Web Manager position.
Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, is looking for an Online Producer for its Online Media Group.
College of Charleston has an opening for a Web Programmer.
Cornell University has an opening within the Employment and Disability Institute for a Web Designer/Database Support Specialist.
There are several web design and development conferences that are coming up this Fall and in Spring 2008. Here is a short list of some of the best ones I recommend:
An Event Apart San Francisco
October 4–5, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Adaptive Path MX East Conference
October 21-23, 2007
Philadelphia, PA
Voices That Matter: Web Design
October 22-25, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Future of Web Design
November 6-8, 2007
New York, NY
Web Builder 2.0
December 3-5, 2007
Las Vegas, NV
Webstock 2008
February 11-15, 2008
Wellington, New Zealand
New Jobs at Vitamin
UK firms are looking for web designers, developers and programmers.
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Team up for Sitemaps
Three major search engines agreed to work together on using Sitemap XML protocol for ranking web sites.
Google gives $2M to Stanford Law Internet center
Web Builder 2.0 Conference – Web 2.0 Conference Designed for the Entire Team
December 4-6, 2006 at Caesars Palace Las Vegas
In Web World, Rich Now Envy The Superrich
Interesting NY Times article about web entrepreneurs and their drive to become richer.
Enterprise Information Architecture: A Semantic and Organizational Foundation
New article at Boxes and Arrows.
ClickTale
Record and watch your users and how they interact with your web site.
Rebuilding Microsoft
A great article on changes occuring within the software giant in Redmond.
GoogleTube?
What if Google was to buy YouTube for $1.6 billion? What if? Could be. Maybe….
USB Cell
Rechargeable USB batteries…that’s cool.
Live Clipboard
What is Live Clipboard? Microsoft, please tell us…
Adobe Contribute 4
I haven’t finished using 3.0 fully, and the version 4.0 is already out.
The Future of Web Accessibility
Article on future trends and predictions for accessibility issues.
10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website
Something to put on your office wall so that you can read it everyday.
In past couple weeks, I came across several sites that have job boards for Web people like us, here are some of them:
If you are looking for a job, try these sites above and you might get lucky. They have targeted jobs specifically for web designers, web developers, freelancers and more.
Mothers Work, Inc. in Philadelphia, PA is looking for a Web Graphic Artist.