John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin re-launched the Web Directions website last week with the aim of centralising the vast array of information and resources gathered from the Web Directions’ conferences held since 2005.

Far beyond the appearance of the site, it was important for us to tame what was becoming a large number of event specific sites and resources. What we’ve done is brought all events under the Web Directions site, particularly the presentation slides and podcasts from past conferences (by the time we get them all up there we’ll top 100 podcasts from many of the web’s best known international experts, and many local experts as well). If you are looking for a presenter, you can simply search for their name - but we’ve also tried to encourage “exploring” the content at the site by tagging each of the presentations, and presenting a tagcloud on every page of the site to help you find presentations on subjects of interest to you.

Coinciding with the re-launch is the announcement of two new one-day Web Directions events this year, being held in Melbourne on Friday May 16, and in Canberra on Monday May 19.