The document summarizes the 2011 recap and 2012 plans of the Brisbane Web Design Group. In 2011, the group held 9 meetups that were attended by 526 people on average, a significant increase from 2010. For 2012, the group aims to improve promotion of meetups, conduct surveys, record presentations, create a Facebook page, seek sponsors, develop a website, and explore other opportunities. The document concludes by thanking readers and providing an email for further contact.

1. Brisbane Web Design Group
2011 Recap
2012 Plans

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so me
we had
bruary
In Fe

3. March
Robert Half
Adam Stead: Web Industry Professionals Association
Leon Poole: Faster, Better, Stronger Websites
Ben Maden: SEO v AdWords in 5 minutes

4. April
Simon Elvery: From Proposal to
Launch: Designing and Developing
for an International Brand
Bruce Morrison: Forms in HTML5

5. May
Russ Weakley: Changes in
best practices
Craig Sharkie: 5 for 3 to 1:
HTML5 for CSS3 applied to
jQuery.mobile 1.0

6. June
Luke Brooker: Responsive
Design and Mobile First
Ingrid Cliff: How to Extract
the Words from Your Clients -
So You Can Finish the D***
Website

7. July
Carolyn King: Design for
conversion
Derek Featherstone: Mobile
Accessibility: What you need to
know

8. August
Kay Lam-MacLeod: What’s in a contract?
Angela Dahlke: Intellectual Property,
Copyright & Trade Marks for Web Designers

9. September
Bronson Quick: Creating an online
social network using WordPress &
BuddyPress
Erik K Veland: Real world HTML5

10. October
Warwick Kay: UX Fundamentals
Chris Horsley: How your web
security failure boosts Viagra sales

11. November
Niq Curry
Gamification
Leon Poole
CSS3 Gradients
Marwan Butrous
Freelance OPS: My year in review
Bronson Quick
WordPress is taking over the Internet

12. In 2010 385 people
attended 10 BWD meetups.
In 2011 526 people
attended 9 BWD meetups.
38
An average of
attending each meetup.
people 58
An average of
attended each meetup.
people

13. What's in
store for
2012?
...if the world doesn't end.

14. What we do now What we'd like to do
Speakers Wrap emails
Minimal promotion Survey
Venue Promotion
Record Presentations
Facebook page
Sponsors
Web site
Others???
organisers@brisbanewebdesign.org

15. Thank you