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@Media 08

Published on: Thursday, April 23, 2009 by Paul Boag

I was excited to be asked to moderate a panel on 'communicating best practice' at this years @Media conference. You can now access both the slides and audio thanks to those lovely people at slideshare.

The panel had a great line up including Rachel Andrew, Patrick Lauke and Murray Rowan. The exact subject we covered was described on the @Media site as follows…

We might all be convinced by the benefits of web standards, and the importance of and , but how can we best communicate the importance of best practices to others, be they or managers?

A panel of highly experienced web professionals from very different backgrounds share their experiences and offer suggestions for the best ways of tackling something that is a lot more difficult than it should be.

You can either download a PDF of the slides (18mb) or watch and listen to the slideshow here. If you want to download the audio that is available too. Finally, a transcript of the presentation is available on the @Media website.

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Produced by Headscape

Boagworld is produced by the web design agency Headscape founded by Marcus, Paul and Chris Scott. Headscape also has a number of other talented guys who blog. Check them out.

  • Craig Rowe is one of our amazing developers and writes some superb posts on everything from .net to AIR apps.

  • Ed Merritt is a Headscape designer who's blog contains examples of his work and a number of free Wordpress themes.

  • Dave McDermid is a Headscape developer who has an excellent blog. He blogs on everything from AJAX to security.

  • Rob Borley is one of our project managers and blogs regularly on client and project management issues.

  • Leigh Howells is our multimedia design guru (whatever one of those is). He blogs on a mixture of design and music.

Paul elsewhere

Paul just can't shut up. He publishes regular audioboos, has a personal blog and is addicted to twitter. He also writes and speaks regularly. Check out the most recent below: