VOICES THAT MATTER WEB DESIGN CONFERENCE -  USER GROUP CONTEST EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – RECEIVE $200 OFF WHEN YOU REGISTER BEFORE SEPT. 10TH! We’re excited to announce the first Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference taking place October 22-25, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, hosted by New Riders an imprint of [...]

If you’re receiving money from the government you’re already section 508 compliant and validated, right? Here’s an example American with Disabilities Act compliance statement to compare with your own. Example: http://www.state.hi.us/tax/c1_3ada.htm When I run the validators, I get warnings, especially from the Hawaii State homepage. It appears to be more difficult to validate sites for [...]

After I started compiling a list of online design resources, I realized we need a list of design resources from companies on the Big Island. I didn’t recognize any of the names of the resources as being from the Big Island.

In last week’s presenation I was stumped on the amount of money that is currently being spent on web 2.0 companies vs. earlier in the year. TechCrunch is offering some insight into the answer here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/23/vc-investment-hits-highest-level-since-2001/ (earlier in the year web 2.0 investment was around 200 million)

Good stuff here: http://www.adobemagazine.com/

Thanks again for coming out. Thanks for the dialog and thanks for the sharing your ideas. See ya again soon! Link to Web 2.0 Slide Presentation

Details are behind the “Next Meeting” link at the top of the page…

More details over at Hawaii Big Island Business. Bring your laptop for hands-on, step by step, instruction. No laptop required though. We’ll pass out materials to take back to your home or office computer. Need info? Contact Brent 808-896-7656 or brent(at)biaug.com e komo mai!

Details are behind the “Next Meeting” link at the top of the page…

What’s Next? An informal “unpresentation” and discussion about Web 2.0 for businesses, writers, designers, developers and anyone looking to better understand and potentially become involved with the biggest online paradigm shift since the web was born. Why? The Kea`au Youth Business Center and Aloha Workshops are interested in teaching folks how to sustain themselves using [...]

Thanks for coming out to the meeting. Here’s a link to the slides for the Publishing SEO Optimized Video on your Website or Weblog  http://www.flickr.com/gp/24612017@N00/84q49q

Developers should keep an eye on the emerging Microformats trend, now two years old. Check microformats.org for latest updates. Below is an example of a Microformat, hCalendar, created using the hCalendar Creator. June 21th 05:15am, 7am 2007 — Big Island Adobe User Group Meeting— at Hale Aloha Conference Room at Hawaii Community College in Hilo, Hawaii [...]

Next meeting details here.

Updated… Yeah, I fixed the broken link. Mahalo for the headszup Chris. Web 2.0 Slides from April’s Meeting from the April Big Island Adobe User Group meeting at Hawaii Community College.

Big Island Adobe User Group Meeting Info (or click the Next Meeting link at top of page) More giveaways at the next meeting. Okay, maybe not as many as last time but we’ll clean out the closet!

Mahalo kakou for a great meeting. Here’s a link to the slide jpegs. Can someone remind me which Google link I’m supposed to include here? My notes didn’t include that particular detail -uh, or any detail. :~ FYI – Adobe MAX has been announced for Chicago in September. User groups sometimes get some sort of [...]

For Immediate Release Contact Brent Norris Big Island Adobe User Group 808-896-7656 brent@biaug.com Who: Big Island Adobe User Group What: Meeting Where: Hale Aloha Conference Room at Hawaii Community College When: Wednesday April 18th at 5:30pm Why: Help support local businesses, charities Audio recording of this message is attached. PSA-big-island-adobe-user-group.mp3 Length: 00:55 Big Island Adobe [...]

The Keaau Youth Business Center had it’s Grand Opening on Saturday. Something like five bands helped kick it off. Kepono Kekuewa was there from Apple’s Hawaii HiEd and of course Moon Brown, one of the creators of the program was there -playing saxophone. Funded by grant money and powered by aloha, the Keaau Youth Business Center [...]

No meeting this month!

The Big Island Adobe User Group is still standing!