Web directions south

Last week webdirections south was on.

Highlights included a session by Derek Featherstone talking about Accessibility beyond compliance (this covered how to really make your web site accessible for people with disabilities), Grant Young talking about Stratgies for social media /social networks highlighting thinking of people having conversations in networks, rather than of the medie which was fascilitating the conversations. He also reminded of the need to engage with people when they are talking, and that we have to think about how to be part of the conversations.

Jeffrey Veen, made data analysis fun, highlighting examples from John Snow, Charles Joseph Minard, Harry Beck and
Chris Jordan. Veen suggested finding a story in the data, using different visual clues within the data and removing everything which is not telling the story.

For interest have a look at Jeremy Keith's website (check out the customisation).

Another presentation to look at belongs to David Peterson talking about Semantic web for distributed social networks.

Check out the webdirections south website for the talks as they are added in (podcasts and slides).