March Meetup Announcement, March 8th - 7:30pm

[Jens Nikolaus]

Hello everyone,
It’s time to announce the next up.front meetup.

On March 8th we will feature Hessam Lavi, Uli Schöberl and Floris
Dekker!

* Hessam Lavi: SEO 101: Accessibility
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has a reputation for being shady and
complicated. Hessam [1][2] previously spent 4 years at Google where he
worked on fighting black hat SEO techniques and webspam in the
European market. He will be sharing his knowledge about how search
engines find and evaluate web content, as well as the 3 key elements
for optimal performance in search engines. The focus in this session
will be on avoiding technical pitfalls and building an accessible
website.

* Uli Schöberl: Design Tools
Whenever Tools of choice are discussed its easy to start off a heated
debate. Its 2011 and Websites are still started in Photoshop. We
laughed at the print people using InDesign, now it ships with pixel
measures and we dream about the automatic recovery when Fireworks
beachball crashed again. And of course beyond Adobe, who needs a flat
demo of an interactive Design anyways, after all rapid prototyping has
been around a while. 
His talk [3][4] will showcase different case of Tool combinations, how
they fit in a real world workflow and the own choice always seems
superior to everyone elses. A heated debate will follow.

* Floris Dekker: How to start a studio in Berlin.
Floris [5], founder and designer at Your Neighbours [6] will talk
about setting up shop in Berlin 1,5 years ago and about some of the
insights they gained by doing it. He will also show some of their own
projects and explain why they did them.
If you have any specific topics you want to hear him talk about, send
him a message on Twitter.

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Found out about a cool new tool or technology? Want to talk about a
case that fits into the web design frontend category? Share it with
us. You are always welcome to take a slot for a lightning talk.
The location remains unchanged and is hosted by the co.up co-working
space [7] providing chairs and drinks for cheap.

Spread the word, we are looking forward to see you.
—up.front.ug

In short: 
Date: March 8th, 2011

Time: 7:30pm


Location: co.up



RSVP on Facebook http://twiturl.de/upfront13 or Plancast planca.st/
QTG

Links:
[1] http://twitter.com/hessam
[2] http://secretswede.net
[3] http://twitter.com/aplusplus
[4] http://ulischoeberl.com
[5] http://twitter.com/floriz
[6] http://yourneighbours.de
[7] http://co-up.de