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Last year, we talked about how to convince your company to embrace web standards. What happens after that? We’ll discuss what happened at AOL and Time Inc. and how that same small group of committed geeks worked from the bottom up to start a developer network, open up AIM, embrace mashup culture, open source, agile development, external developers - and how you can do the same. More …

Web developers the world over understand the benefits that standards-based development provide, but how do you get management or a client to understand as well? A small band of committed geeks got AOL and Time Inc. to embrace Web standards, not only in the Development organization, but throughout the company — including Design and Senior Management. Come learn how they did it, and how you can do it too.

Eric Meyer about 2006 panel: “Without question, the best panel I saw was “How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Standards?“. This was not due to the topic, though that was good too, but because the panel was tightly assembled and packed with good information. Most panels are a collection of folks who sit onstage and leisurely toss out assorted thoughts for an hour; I should know, having been on many such panels in the past. For this one, everybody had specific points to make and made them concisely. There was a lot of preparation, and it showed. It very much raised the bar, as far as I’m concerned, especially since I’m thinking of proposing a panel or two for 2007. Kudos to all involved.” See more >>