AMC Net Content/Chicago
Creating Content for Mobile Users
Tuesday, February 25
Illinois Institute of Art, 180 N. Wabash, Room 235
(PLEASE NOTE NEW LOOP LOCATION!)
Cost: Free for AMC members, $10 for non-members

Wireless handheld computers are the newest content platform. They can display documents and A/V files, connect to the Internet, and serve as e-book readers and gaming stations. Advances in cellular networks will soon enable such devices to transform the way we live and work. But content professionals may have to transform the content.

Topics will include:

• Dos and Don'ts for developing content for wireless handheld computers
• Converting your existing web site for wireless delivery – or not
• Open vs. proprietary formats for e-publishing
• Wireless content: wayfinding, augmenting the world, acting as concierge

About our speakers
Jeremy Wechsler is a Senior Software Engineer at Expand Beyond, Inc., a company specializing in wireless IT management software. He has been a software developer and DBA for ten years (most recently as Director of Database Applications for Playboy.com), has taught at University of Illinois and is also an award winning theater director and performer in Chicago.

Download Jeremy's presentation (PowerPoint)

Larry Garfield is the Palm OS Editor for infoSync World, the world's largest handheld/wireless news web site. infoSync covers Palm OS, Pocket PC, and Symbian platforms as well as other smaller systems, with full news coverage, regular reviews, and other editorial content. Larry has also worked as a freelance web developer and a Palm OS developer, and has published research into dynamically tailoring content for multiple platforms.

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Garrick Van Buren, an information architect for twohundredtwelve degrees, creates polite systems. Previously, he helped CyberPixie create a location-specific web portal and HannaHodge with audience research and interface design. Since receiving his BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Garrick has assisted Orbitz, Sam's Club, Unisys, Baxter, and RollingStone.com in their digital initiatives.

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About Net Content/Chicago

Net Content/Chicago, a network of diverse content professionals, hosts monthly events covering topical issues for the online content industry. Net Content/Chicago is a Special Interest Group of the Association for Multimedia Communications <http://www.amcomm.org/scripts/content.cgi?page=SIG_content>. For more information about this meeting, please contact Anne Hedin <a.hedin@attbi.com> or Hilary Marsh <hilary@contentcompany.biz>.

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