Presentations

The following articles contain details and transcripts of most of my presentations and talks that I have delivered. Additional presentation slide sets can be found also on Slideshare

We Came, We Saw, We WebJammed!

Aug
17
2007
By Gary Barber

Posted in  presentation, webjam

We just had Webjam in Perth on Wednesday night. It went off! With just three week notice there was around 100 people attending and 14 people stepping up on the night. I have been to a Webjam before at WebDU, but that was a poor second in comparison to this. The vibe on the night was just amazing. It was good to see all the aspects of the Western Australian Web Industry come together. The depth of talent and ideas that came out of the jam was amazing. From Lichen Webmail, Kromes bookmarking system, Myles Eftos with CTR (Canvas Text Replacement) the list just goes on.

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PDF Accessibility and Optimisation

Jul
11
2007
By Gary Barber

Posted in  presentation, software, web accessibility

Lego Mini figures and PDF accessibility

You know the story. Your client or boss wants to put a report online, it’s just a few pages long, but they want exact print output control of the document or they just want to ensure that the cost is kept to a minimum. So you end up putting the document online as a PDF. Now I ask you is it really readable by everyone. That is normal viewers, assistative technology viewers, search engine bots and viewers in remote areas on slow connections. I can bet that in most cases one of these groups is missing out

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BarCampPerth – The WordPress Loop

Jun
30
2007
By Gary Barber

Posted in  BarCampPerth, presentation

Well today BarCamp came to Perth. Finally we the people on the West Coast of Australia got to have a BarCamp.

And once again I stepped up to the podium (not that we had any). Not once but twice. In true BarCamp style a presentation panel was thrown together in a mad hurry on the topic of “Start a Web Business” with Steven Hambleton, Miles Burke and Rosemary Lynch and myself. Of course we went overtime, and of course people wanted more so with half the talk done we moved to an afternoon slot.

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Business Networking without Wires

Mar
7
2007
By Gary Barber

Posted in  presentation, web business

People in the web industry have often complained that they hate traditional marketing, hate cold calling, and dread using a sales team. Or themselves becoming the salesmen they despise. So what’s left that you can do to promote yourself in the business or career arena professionally. Well the only thing is networking. “Okay?!” you’re all gasping, “but networking is really bad worse than cold calling”. Well maybe you have it all wrong.

This is the basis for a Mini Talk I gave at the Port80 meeting on the 7 March 2007:

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