WebProfessionals.org Announces Personalized News Aggregation Site Expanding Coverage for Busy Web Professionals The association for Web professionals announced this week the launch of WebProMinute.org, a site that aggregates news and enables users to self select their news stream based on…
Trusted Identity in Cyberspace
A Look at White House’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace The need to improve the current state of online identity has been hailed at the highest levels of the U.S. government. “By making online transactions more trustworthy and…
Leadership through Advocacy and Organizing
Leadership through Advocacy and Organizing to Promote the Web Profession and Jobs in New Media and IT Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals Everywhere! Web professionals working together can make change happen. For example, when education policies don’t meet the…
The New Frontier – Interview with Abbey Tosic, 3M
Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere. For today’s podcast, I reached out to Abbey Tosic, eHub Design and Usability Lead at 3M. Abbey is also a WOW member and the recipient of one of a number of Design and…
Startups Should Collaborate
Startups should collaborate, Wozniak tells Business Leaders Greetings WOW members and Web Professionals everywhere. Whether you’re an enterprise level Web professional within the technical, creative or business side of the profession, working for yourself or small to medium sized Web…
Google Search Formula Rank Creates Controversy
Google Search Rank Creates Controversy and Critics According to press reports over the weekend, Google search revamp is under fire as unfair says SJ Mercury News. According to the WSJ online, Google Inc., long considered the gold standard of Internet…
Mobile Application Development – Current Status, Opportunites and Skills Required
Mobile Application Development – Current Status, Opportunities and Skills Required – Interview with Professor Mark DuBois Today’s Web Professional Minute is an interview with Professor Mark DuBois, Illinois Central College and WOW’s Director of Education. In this seven minute podcast,…
Is the Web Becoming Less Secure?
Is the Web Becoming Less Secure? A PBS Analysis In the wake of the Gawker Media hacking over the weekend, Jeffrey Brown gets a wider perspective about the vulnerability of online information and the danger of further cyberattacks from James…
Gawker Analysis
A Gawker Analysis On PBS Gawker Media, one of the web’s largest publishers, was hacked over the weekend and information for about 1.3 million users was made public. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the NewsHour’s Hari Sreenivasan about the cyber attack…
Understanding Microformats – Interview with Jeri Hastava and Emily Lewis
Practical Microformats Microformats are HTML-based design patterns that add semantic meaning to common web content. More than semantics, though, microformats have a wide range of benefits, including findability, standards compliance and extensible data publishing. And they are used by some…