Podcasts about web evangelist

This episode of The Xero Hour with Bob Knorpp and Saul Colt features a great discussion about Personal Branding and the concept of "Fake it till you make it" with Dixie Laite. Dixie has taught second grade in Harlem and the South Bronx, became a bodybuilder and personal trainer to the stars, become National Project Director for Thirteen/WNET’s National Teacher Training Institute, working with over 50 public television stations across the United States.  Passionate about this whole newfangled Internet thing, she morphed into a “Web Evangelist”, eventually getting recruited to work on Oprah Winfrey’s Oprah Goes Online website.  At the Oxygen network, Dixie was Director of Online Audience Development and eventually Editorial Director of Oxygen.com and is Currently Senior Editorial Director at TeenNick, Dixie is also a successful freelance writer, speaker, digital content strategist and branding and social media marketing consultant. Dixie is the most interesting woman in NYC and can help anyone find whatever is interesting about themselves. For more information on Dixie please go to www.dixielaite.com  For more information on Xero please go to Xero.com Questions or comments on the show? Tweet @saulcolt or @xero with the Hastag #xerohour 

In the absence of a "Widgets for Dummies" book being available at your local bookstore, this presentation will try to bring you up-​​to-​​speed with what you need to know to start developing widgets. Split into two parts, we’ll cover the theory behind widgets: * seriously, yet another platform to code for?! - vendor and manufacturer support for widgets & compatible development frameworks * what widgets are good for - save your users (and yourself) time, money and frustration * what widgets are not-​​so-​​good for - they’re not a silver bullet! and widgets in practice: * widgets and device compatibility - the good news is also potential bad news * screen sizes - resizing and its headaches * widget distribution and making money - everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we? You’ll get most out of this talk if you: * have heard of widgets but don’t know how to use them * are wondering whether widgets could solve a particular problem you have. (i.e. no specific browser) * have tried making widgets but got stuck and gave up Daniel is the Web Evangelist for Opera’s Japan office based in Tokyo. His previous work experience includes project management, IT training, web development, software development and system administration in both Japan and the UK, his home country. After studying Japanese and Chinese at university, he grew more and more interested in the flourishing field of IT and the web, learning as much as he could by playing and experimenting with internet-​​related technologies. His current work promoting web standards and cross-​​device web development at Opera fits in perfectly with his ideology of openness and equality across linguistic, social and socio-​​economic borders. Follow Daniel on Twitter: @ourmaninjapan Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

When I was a young lad, I had the use of a computer for the Christmas holidays so I typed out my thank you letters and felt super cool. Unfortunately there was no printer. I wrote out by hand what was on the screen and got laughed at by my dad. Despite this, I felt I was ahead of the crowd and at the start of something new and exciting. Thirty years later, I feel we're at the same stage with widgets - at the start of something new and exciting. Daniel is the Web Evangelist for Opera's Japan office based in Tokyo. His previous work experience includes project management, IT training, web development, software development and system administration in both Japan and the UK, his home country. After studying Japanese and Chinese at university, he grew more and more interested in the flourishing field of IT and the web, learning as much as he could by playing and experimenting with internet-related technologies. His current work promoting web standards and cross-device web development at Opera fits in perfectly with his ideology of openness and equality across linguistic, social and socio-economic borders. Follow Daniel on Twitter: @ourmaninjapan Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

HTML5 was originally called Web Applications 1.0, but that doesn’t mean it’s only for scripters - there’s plenty for markup monkeys as well as JavaScript junkies. We’ll look at new structural elements in HTML5, and how they can boost accessibility, how to style them (even in IE!). We’ll check out how new semantics can reduce the JS you need to write/copy by adding functionality natively to the browser, and how to add sexy open standard video to your pages with no Flash, no JavaScript, just a big hunk o’ open-web love. Patrick Lauke works as Web Evangelist in the Developer Relations team at Opera Software ASA. In a previous life he worked as Web Editor for the University of Salford, where in 2003 he implemented one of the first thoroughly web standards based sites in the sector. Patrick has been engaged in the discourse on standards and accessibility since early 2001 - regularly speaking at conferences and contributing to a variety of web development and accessibility related mailing lists and initiatives such as the Web Standards Project. Published works include a chapter in Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance, released by Friends of Ed in 2006, as well as various articles for .net magazine, where he sits on the advisory panel. Follow Patrick on Twitter: @patrick_h_lauke Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

The first in a series of interviews with key figures in the IT industry for BCS's 50th anniversary, Brian Runciman spoke to Vint Cerf, Google's chief web evangelist.