The Monthly Newsletter for Web Professionals
Volume 8 Issue 04 - April 2006
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Letter from the Executive Editor
Successful Web Professional Initiatives
A Tale of Three States: Illinois, New York and North Carolina have emerged as Web professional heavyweights
Every great initiative needs leaders, and in elevating the Web profession, Illinois, New York and North Carolina and currently serve as models for the rest of the country.
The progressive support for the Web profession in these states and more specifically, Web professionals within education and state government, is proving that we can not only elevate the Web profession to that stature that it deserves, but empower support business, industry and government to compete in global economy.
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The Latest Industry News
On sentry duty in your in-box
From CNET News.com
Two years after the introduction of a caller ID-like system for e-mail, Microsoft believes it now has the arguments to sway businesses to adopt the spam-fighting technology.
At a Chicago conference on e-mail authentication on Wednesday, Microsoft plans to talk about the success it's having with Sender ID on its own hosted e-mail services, such as Hotmail. The software giant said it will outline how the verification system is benefiting its e-mail subscribers and those who send messages to them.
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Cassatt management tools get virtual
From CNET News.com
Server software start-up Cassat has introduced a module to enable its core product to control virtual machines as well as the physical machines it now governs.
The Cross-Virtualization Manager module, released Monday, extends Cassatt's Collage software, used to automate management of large numbers of servers. XVM adds the ability to govern which jobs are running on which virtual machines; to move jobs from one to another if a server fails; and start and stop virtual machines, the San Jose, Calif.-based company said.
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Featured Article
New Web Professional Workforce Initiatives
By Carlene Lynch
The web professional workforce is dramatically changing as progressive partnerships between government, education, communities of practice, and industry professionals develop virtual social networks. Virtual communities driven by a new generation of workers the ‘millennials, those born after 1980 that have a innate ability to use technology, are comfortable with a diverse range of digital media, have close online friends, and literally demand interactive work environments.
The World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) a non-profit professional association is leading the efforts to tap into the growing body of workers who may not have the skills and experience of the many retirees they are replacing but utilize technology and social networks to fill this gap.
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Current Best Practices in Web Development and Design Tutorial: This one day event is in conjunction with the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2)* May 23-26, 2006 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh Scotland.
Get Involved With WOW
There are many ways to get involved with WOW
Is there a WOW chapter in your neighborhood? Would you like to start one? E-mail Joshua Blackford, WOW's Membership Director at jblackford@joinwow.org
We need instructors! If you have web expertise and want to share your knowledge please contact us at: info@joinwow.org We're looking for Contributing Authors for the Feature Articles section. Are you an expert in your field? Is there something that you feel WOW members need to know about? Send your story to info@joinwow.org.
Mentors, if you are interested in getting involved in our mentoring program to assist students online contact bill@joinwow.org