Join us at our next meeting!
August 12th at 7 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE CHANGE
This month only, we’ll meet at the Blue Fish Development Group Offices
701 Brazos, Suite 700
Austin Centre building (the business half of the Omni Hotel). Theirs is the first office on the left on the 7th floor.
The business elevators are on the West side of the building near the security desk (the hotel elevators are on the East side next to the hotel check-in).
Refresh Austin’s August meeting will include two presentations:
Writing for the Web Presented by Sheila Scarborough
- How to let your own voice come through your writing.
- How to use an editorial calendar to organize your blogging and avoid writer’s block.
- How to present material on the Web so that it’s easy to read and absorb.
- How to interact with commentators on your blog, and how to get more of them.
- Discussion topic - when is a blogger a journalist, and when is he/she not? Are there fundamental tenets of print journalism that we should bring online?
Notes from Sheila’s Presentation
Books on writing:
- Anne Lamott, “Bird by Bird - Some Instructions on Writing and Life“
- Stephen King, “On Writing“
Blogs about writing great Web content:
Blogs with good conversational writing:
- Heather Armstrong’s dooce
- Penelope Trunk’s blog (separate from her Brazen Careerist site)
- Leif Pettersen’s Killing Batteries
I’m @SheilaS on Twitter and am always open to further questions….
Introduction to Django Presented by Jon Loyens
Django is one of the more recent crop of lightweight web frameworks designed to help people create dynamic web applications while avoiding the redundancy and tedium often associated with the task. The Python-based Django has recently gained a lot of momentum within the web community for it’s ease of use and clean, maintainable code and is currently the only framework supported by the Google AppEngine. Being born out of a newspaper publishing environment, Django is particularly well suited to creating content driven applications (though, as the co-creators are quick to point out, Django itself is not a CMS, though a very good platform to build a CMS on). Django is billed by it’s co-creators Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Adrian Holovaty as “the Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines”.
Notes from Jon’s Presentation
Update: Links and files from each presentation are now included above.
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