In times of economic prosperity employers tend to focus on finding the right employees and enticing them to stay with a combination of benefits and working conditions.
These days we face a skills shortage, an uncertain economic environment and a general reluctance to take risks. The HR priority for employers, argues Matt Moore in a recent [...]
Just a reminder that the Oz-IA conference is approaching fast…
Earlybird registrations are open now, and close next Tuesday 9 September.
Earlybird registrations are A$660, or A$550 if you quote the discount code MR0243. Register online at the conference web site.
The conference will be held in Sydney, on the weekend of 20-21 September.
Who should attend?
Designers of navigation, [...]
Now in its third year, the Oz-IA conference 20-21 September 2008 is a weekend full of insight, ideas and camaraderie for information architects, usability specialists, content developers, web and application developers, and others with an interest in design, human factors, search, Web2.0 and related topics.
Plus it’s a great excuse to spend a few spring days [...]
The lovely people at A List Apart are running a demographic survey about people who build web sites.
Here’s a bit of the ALA blurb about why the survey is important:
“Possibly the most important invention of the past century, the web is undeniably one of the most robust engines of knowledge transfer, political and social change, [...]
M’colleagues Usability Guy and Zeebleblibbet are running an online survey this month. Inspired by the recent A List Apart survey, it’s designed to find out some basic information about who ‘does web’ at this university.
Usability Guy commented on an internal discussion list:
We… spend much money on technology, hardware, processes, buildings etc. but how much time [...]