UPA DC Meeting August 8: Web 2.0 and the User Experience

Dated: 3rd August 2007

Web 2.0 and the User Experience

Web 2.0 has taken off. It's hard to walk more than a few feet without finding someone who's blogging, twittering, tagging, or roaming Second Life. Blogs and Wikis, mashups, folksonomies, rich Internet applications, and "thin client Web apps" are popping up everywhere. User-generated and collaborative content and applications are king,and users no longer sit idly by waiting for a development team to build something for them. With a few simple instructions, they can build a fairly slick blog or mashups galore.

Speaker:

Kate Walser has been working with commercial and government organizations to improve the user experience and accessibility of their products for the last 10 years. She has worked with many federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Small Business Administration, and Commonwealth of Virginia - as well as commercial organizations including AXA/Equitable Financials, BlueCross BlueShield of California, and T. Rowe Price.

Over the last two years, Ms. Walser has been investigating Web 2.0 technologies as well, including blogs, wikis, AJAX and rich Internet applications, Google Gears and Apollo Adobe, and others that will impact how we design the user's experience.

Kate's background in biomedical engineering, coupled with her MBA and work as an NIH researcher, have given her a unique perspective into how best to integrate usability as a discipline within small and large organizations. She established and leads the SRA Usability Center of Excellence. Kate is 1 of 42 members selected to the Access Board's Telecommunications & Electronic & Information Technology Advisory
Committee, tasked with refreshing the Section 508 standards.

Date and time:

August 8, 2007 (Wednesday)
7:00-9:00 p.m. Program (**If you do not attend dinner, please arrive promptly at 7 as we must sign everyone and escort them up to the presentation room)
6:00-7:00 p.m. Dinner at Mei's, an Asian restaurant, located downstairs in the building.

Location:

SRA International, Inc.
3434 Washington Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201
202.282.3080

Registration:

Registration is required to attend due to security measures at the SRA
building. Registration will close at 9pm on August 7.

http://www.upa-dc-metro.org/events/2007/08-08-07.htm

Cost:

$5 Members, $15 non-members
Suggestion: Become member of UPA-DC and save $10. But free registration in UPA-DC is an investment for you to get more knowledge on latest in web from industry best for cheaper cost.

Advance registration is required to attend this event due to security
measures at the SRA building. To register, please go to the event page
below and click on Registration.
http://www.upa-dc-metro.org/events/2007/08-08-07.htm

Lets meet in the event!!!