Seven Core Principles of Social Design-Interview with Joshua Porter Author, Web designer, Researcher: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Seven Core Principles of Social Design-Interview with Joshua Porter Author, Web designer, Researcher: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere! Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute.

Today’s podcast is a continuation of the media coverage of the VTM Web design Conference. For today podcast, I have the pleasure to be interviewing over the phone Joshua Porter Web designer, researcher, and writer living in Newburyport, MA,

Joshua presented at the VTM conference on the topic of Seven Core Principles of Social Design and he has written extensively on such topics as Web 2.0, Ajax, Web standards, and is the author of the upcoming New Riders title Designing for the Social Web.

Check out the twelve minute interview with Joshua Porter on the topic of Seven Core Principles of Social Design on the WOW Technology Minute website.

Today’s WOW Technology Minute is sponsored by the Adobe Corporation and the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards.

Help Adobe honor the best interactive, motion and video, and traditional media work created by the most talented and promising students from around the world.

When: Thursday, August 14, 2008 Doors open at 6:00 PM for a gallery preview Award ceremony at 7:30 PM Creative formal attire.

Where:

Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
New York University
566 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012 (Find a map here)

Register: Adobe Design Achievement Awards

A full transcript of this podcast will be available in 24 hours.

 

 2008 Web Design Competition Winners : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 2008 Web Design Competition Winners : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Team Carson High School and Illinois Central College Win Top Honors at National Web Design Competition Kansas City, MO

Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere! Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute.

WOW hosted the fifth annual Web design competition in conjunction with the SkillsUSA organizations National Champions competition in Kansas City last week. Over 5,000 outstanding career and technical education students joined the excitement of hands on competition in ninety-one different trade and technical fields.

Working against the clock and each other, some really amazing individuals representing over forty U.S. states, proved their expertise in the categories of Web design, Web development, Web business and professionalism.

Top students in the contest were:

Secondary Division

* Michelle DeLarge and Amanda Norman from Carson High School walked away with the Gold
* Stephanie Hutchins and Anthony Sweet from Barre Regional Vo Tech Center walked away with the Silver.
* Chelsea Parkhurst and Jesse Garrison from Fort Vancouver High School walked away with the Bronze in the secondary category.

Post Secondary Division

* Sheri Humphrey and Luan Railsback from Illinois Central College won the Gold
* Justin L Fregoe and Lindsay E. Jones from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College won the Silver
* Matthew Steiner and Gregory Malbraaten from Riverland Community College in Minnesota won the Bronze

Stay tuned for additional coverage on the event as well a handful of in depth and inspirational interviews with a number of some of the best and the brightest students from around the U.S. later in the week.