There'll be analysis of online behaviour, some crystal-ball gazing and obviously, a heavy skew on how to use online advertising to get filthy rich. Also Q&A, drinks & networking. 

Monday 30th April
5PM for 6PM start, 7:30 finish.
Venue: Freehills
Level 36 QV1
250 St Georges Terrace

Register HERE and say the magic word "PORT80" to get your ticket for free.

Three themes: business, personal and family over three days. $195 gets you full access. 

A big bucket of speakers including Dan Baker from Precedent, Rod Farmer from Mobile Experience, Stuart Kidd from InGenius Labs, Miles Burke, Richard Giles...

April 26, 27, 28. Go and pump the flesh.

It's an intensive evening course that features an interactive 2-hour positioning workshop, plus talks. $35 a ticket. A steal.

Thursday 26th April, 6PM - 9PM at the Northbridge Piazza Community Centre.

Here's where you say yes.

Instead of continuing to send out individual emails, we thought a small how-to article would of help to you the members.

So let us get started.

Step 1 - the login

• Login to the website in the upper right hand side of the menu there is a login link.

• This provides you with a login page. If you have not visited the website in a while you will need to request a new password. This is done by email to make sure you are who you say you are.

Your username is the email address you have provided to us, just like the old site. Your password MUST have 1 uppercase character, 1 numeric character and be at least 8 characters long.

Step 2 - editing your profile

• Once you are logged in you find the menu choices on the  upper right hand side have changed. You now have your username (this is an email address you provided), a My Account Link as well as a Logout link.

Select the "My Account" link to go to your account Profile page.

• until you have updated your profile your landing page will look like this, with just your Email (username) showing and a notice to edit your profile. You are also provided with three buttons. One to edit your profile. One to change your email/password and one to renew your account.

We will look at editing your profile first so click on the "Edit Account Profile" button

• You should now see the image to the left as your account profile page. Fill in the details that you would like to share with us. There are some required fields however, so we can address you properly in any correspondence.

This page holds to sections - one which is contact details and the other is to do with your business if you are a business member. Business members are able to have their profile in the Web Industry Directory area of this website as part of their memberhsip.

At the end of the page there is a "Save Account Profile" button. This saves the information to our sites database where you can edited at any time by logging in and choosing "My Account" and following these processes again.

Once the information has been saved you are sent back to the Account Profile landing page.

Step 3 - edit email and password

• Once you have selected the "Change Email/Password" button it takes you to this page. this is where you can change yoru  contact email which is also used for your username. You can change you password here too. Just remember that you need 1 uppercase character, 1 numeric character and the password needs to be at least 8 characters long. You will also need to put in your old password to confirm that you want to change your password.

At the bottom of this form is  the "Change Email/Password" button which will save the changes you have made to your email and password. It will also send you back to your profile landing page.

Finally Renewal

The final button is to renew your membership. This button takes you to a renewal form where you can fill out your details to renew.

Questions

There are some common Questions that keep coming up.

1. So what happens if I am having trouble renewing? If you are having trouble renewing then you will need to call Krystie on 08 9245 6575 to process an off-line renewal.

Any other trouble with your account profile please use our contact form to have it actioned.

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By the way, October meeting will be all Web Awardsy and the November meeting looks like being a joint meeting with a women's tech group. Yes! Women! We'll be talking networking and just talking.

Port80 attendees will remember @stuartkhall's excellent talk on the subject of iPad/iPhone development. Turns out he knows what he's talking about.

He's CTO of filtersquad.com (formerly Jammbox); they’ve just taken out the Tech23 Greatest Potential Award in Sydney. The award’s given to the company showing ‘the greatest potential for growth and progress’.

That would have something to do with @Discovr, which has just ticked over a million downloads and 5 million sessions. 

This change will allow all members around Australia to participate in the voting of important matters in the Association. The Committee saw this as a great step forward to be a non-WA centric organisation that represents the Web Industry Australia wide.

Feedback on this new look is welcome, however please be patient as we tweak and fix any outstanding issues. The Committee thanks you for your patience in this matter as it is a rather difficult "birth" to manage.

A tour of the site.

We have simplified the navigation around the site and provided ease of access to them.

The Members area where you can get access to the Industry Index, your membership details as well as renewal and joining information for new members.

"What we are doing" and this is where information and links to various projects and events are. Especially the Major event like the Australian Web Awards and Edge of the Web Conference, and the Ideas seminar series.

News and Events is the place to find out about what is going on in the Web Industry Association as well as other events around Australia and the World. If you would like to write articles for your peers in the industry let us know. Besides Port80s this is another way to support the industry. 

About AWIA is the usual  information about the association, like who the committee is and what our purpose is. You will also find the Constitution here along with other documentation that is of value to both our clients and ourselves.