Online Registration and Housing Technology Presentation

Continuing my recent road trips, I had the opportunity to present with Jim Gowell from Passkey at the new Event Technology Expo within the HSMAI Affordable Meetings National program on September 10, 2008 in Washington D.C.

Online Registration and Housing Technology - Do More With Less

Below are a copy of our slides.

Online Travel Systems for Meetings presentation at MTE in Washington D.C.

Wednesday last week, I had the opportunity to present at the Meetings Technology Expo in Washington, D.C. On short notice, Paul Paone asked me to fill in for the Meetings Travel session, so I created a new presentation based on my experience integrating Meetings and Travel systems.


Unlike much of the marketing hype around "Travel Integration" systems, I've found that sometimes inexpensive process modifications can achieve the universal goals of unified meeting-travel reports and proper travel expense assignment for meetings.


Online Travel Systems for Meetings


Below are the slides from my presentation. Click on any image to see a larger version.

Security for Web 2.0 presentation at MTE in Washington DC.

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to present at the Meetings Technology Expo in Washington, D.C. I modifed my Web Security presentation from the Chicago show to include "Web 2.0" technologies. I loosely define "Web 1.0" as technology where the site owner pushes content to a user. "Web 2.0", by contrast, includes technologies where the site owner provides a platform that allows users to publish, consume, and interact with each other in a community. (For example, Blogs, wikis, social networks, forums, etc.)



Security for Web 2.0



Below are the slides from my presentation. Click on any image to see a larger version.

Why be ADA compliant? Look at National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corporation

In the September 1, 2008 issue of Computerworld ("Benchmarks Last Week", p. 13):

"Target Corp. agreed to modify its Web site and pay $6 million in damages to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by the National Federation of the Blind. The NFB will test the site's accessibility annually for three years."

I've written previously on the need to build Web sites that are compliant with the American Disabilities Act and Section 508 of the Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973, but my reasons focused on the work we conduct for U.S. federal and state government agencies.

Now it appears that commercial Web sites in addition to government ones soon will be required to adhere to accessibility standards . I applaud this movement, since the Section 508 and W3C WCAG guidelines are mature and allow standards-based Web development that is accessible to the largest number of people possible.