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Adam Ware’s excellent presentation on “Beyond Pageview: What’s Going on with Your Dynamic Content?” is available on Slideshare.net. He has also published the links from his presentation on Delicious. Thanks, Adam!

May 20 to 22 at the Oregon Convention Center

Mark Frauenfelder, Keynote Speaker and
Founder of BoingBoing.net

This year, WebVisions features over 50 speakers, a full day of workshops with leading experts in CSS, mobile, user experience, design and development, a dedicated exhibit hall, parties and networking events and more! Take advantage of the great Early Bird rates when you sign up by March 31st or contact Brad or Dana at (503) 230-2058 for special group rates for four or more attendees.

DevGroup NW members can take advantage of association member rates of only $170 for a conference pass. Request the promo code by contacting Dana Cuellar.

Have a project of which you’re particularly proud or just want to strut your stuff in front of your peers? The second annual Webvisionary Awards recognizes outstanding work in categories that range from web apps to community sites. The entries are judged by leading visionaries in design, technology, advertising and business strategy, including Roger Black, David Verba and others. The awards ceremony will be held on May 21 at Portland’s Bagdad Theatre.

» Enter Today

Budgets are tight and the boss is grouchy, but hope is alive: Bring a colleague and the two of you can now attend the Innovation Games Workshop for half price! If you are a CHIFOO member, you can get 2 tickets to this ground-breaking workshop for just $300. Even If you are not a member, it only costs $20 to join CHIFOO and get the same deal.

This workshop has been given at the two most recent Usability Professionals Association conferences, the Webdesign International Festival (in Limoges, France), and at P-camp (in Sunnyvale CA). Learn what the buzz is about. Now you and a colleague can attend this ground-breaking workshop for only $150 each and get world-class training right here in Portland at a fraction of the $600 retail value.

» Register today or find out more at CHIFOO.org

WebVisions is now accepting submissions for sessions, panels and workshops for WebVisions 2009, which will be held from May 20-22, at the Oregon Convention Center.

• Sessions are 1.25 hours long and address topics that reveal new directions, technologies, processes or approaches for the Web.
• Workshops will be held on May 20th only, and are set up in a classroom format and run for 3 hours for a half day or 6 hours for a full day and should provide more in depth coverage of a topic.
• Panels run for 1.25 hours and feature 3-4 speakers including a moderator. Panels should be fun, lively and informative, not a series of mini presentations from each speaker.

To submit a proposal for a session, panel or workshop, please use their submission form. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2008.

If you have any questions, contact Dana Cuellar (dana at webvisionsevent dot com) or Brad Smith (brad at webvisionsevent dot com).

As part of our summer reflection and re-engineering of the DevGroup programs, our planning group met and came up with ideas for meeting topics…these ranged from Adobe product release meetings to subjects such as mobile applications, motion graphics, podcasting, Google apps, “How-to” sessions, online training, user testing, design, “pimp your site”, social networking APIs, desktop applications / Adobe AIR and others.

But don’t be shy…share your ideas or submit a session pitch and we’ll put it in the hopper for consideration.