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Stories

As part of this year’s conference we also launched our new magazine Stories.

In this, our first edition of the magazine, we have contributions from staff in Local Government working on the web, as well as from industry experts.

We hope you enjoy this first issue, and hope you will tell us your story too.

The hardcopy of the magazine is also available free for Local Government and for a nominal charge of $5.00(inc GST) for all others. To order your copy, please email lgwebnetwork@gmail.com

Slides and podcasts are now available

For all of you who weren’t able to physically make it to the conference we have now got most of the slides and podcasts available for your viewing and listening pleasure!

The slides are available under Program listed against with each session description.

The audio files are available under Podcasts and can be listened to immediately or downloaded by right clicking on the link.

Conference 2009 – Tell us what you think

Now that we’ve wrapped up the 2009 conference, it’s your turn to let us know what you think. We’d love to hear your thoughts on all aspects of the conference, from speakers and topics to the venue and food. You also have an opportunity to win either a new “talking” iPod shuffle courtesy of MOB or Donna Spencer’s new book: “Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories” if you submit this form by by Friday, 28 August at 5pm. If you’d like the opportunity to win, please fill out your name and email address. The winner will be published on the conference website and will be notified by email.

The Conference Feedback Survey has now closed. Thanks for talking to us!

The winners of the Feedback Form Prizes are Noelene Hyde from Tenterfield Shire Council, who has won the iPod shuffle and John James from Wollongong City Council who has won the signed copy of Donna Spencer’s new book, Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories. Congratulations!

Lightening Talks

This year we’ve introduced a session during the conference on Thursday called “lightening talks” as a way of allowing more conference attendees to share their experiences.

Anyone attending the conference can put their name down to do a 5 minute talk on an interesting experience, a new project, or anything relevant to government and the public sector in relation to the web.

Prize

The winner will be chosen by whoever gets the biggest applause. And thanks to Fat Publisher will be giving away a brand new iPhone for first prize!

You don’t need to prepare slides (although you are welcome to) but we do recommend you rehearse your talk as 5 minutes goes quickly!

There are only a few spots so if you’re interested then sign up quick!

To enter please fill out this short form.

Please note that only conference attendees may enter.

Government 2.0 Taskforce Workshop

We’re happy to announce that we’ve just added the Government 2.0 Taskforce Workshop to our conference sessions. The workshop will be facilitated by Lisa Harvey, one of the Taskfoce members.

The Government 2.0 Taskforce is being formed against a backdrop of increased interest by governments worldwide in the potential uses of public sector information and online engagement.

The Local Government sector has a lot to say as both a supplier and user of public sector information. The Taskforce would like to hear what you have to say about your own experiences of engagement with other levels of government, and also on how your constituency engages with, or expects to engage with you on both access to public sector information and digital engagement.

See the full session description for details.

Registrations now open!

We’re happy to announce that conference registrations are now open.

Like last year we are keeping the ticket prices as low as possible. This conference is not about making money, it’s about getting people together to share ideas and learn.

Early Bird discount available until 10 July: only $475.00 +GST (that’s a discount of $75.00!)

To register, and for a full list of ticket options and prices please go to: http://conference09.lgwebnetwork.org/tickets

Help us out and we’ll help you out!

Are you feeling generous? Do you want to get connected with the local government web peeps? Perhaps you’re looking for a bit of promotion in turn for a good deed, or maybe a free ticket? – we’re happy to hear from companies or individuals if you think you can help out.

We’d like to make our conference extra special, we need a helping hand with anything from podcasting, some goodies to put in the conference satchel, to a an up-coming photographer to snap away and flickr our photos.

Check out the “help out” page for a list of ways you can help.

Mark Pesce is our closing keynote!

We are very excited to announce that we have Mark Pesce as our Closing Keynote for the conference. Mark  is a widely respected technologist, futurist, philosopher, and journalist. And many of you will have seen him on the ABC program: The New Inventors. We’re extremely happy to have Mark as our Closing Keynote this year, a great way to finish off what we hope will be a conference that will leaaving you buzzing with ideas.

Check out Mark’s bio on the speakers page.

LG Web Network Conference 2009 – what do YOU want?

We are starting to plan the program for the Local Government Web Network Conference for 2009, so now is the time where we’d really like your feedback to help us make a better conference for you.

To get your feedback in a more interesting way, we are taking a leaf out of Web Directions book, and launching an Ideas Forum. Continue reading the full post on the LG Web Network Blog…