LabourTech 2010

Welcome to the Workshop

This is the online workspace for LabourTech participants. In addition to the materials and links we'll use in the workshop, the site contains a number of resources that you may find useful in future.

Some not so good websites

Here are some sites that teach how not to design and write a website:

World Health Organization: Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 99

Website for the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. (Government of India)

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox. Nielsen is a guru of web design, but his own site is stuck in the 1990s.

Web Pages That Suck. We should all pay more attention to this site.

Havenworks.com. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

Writing for the web

A quick survey of the principles:

Download Webwriting

Communication models

The computer and the web have encouraged the rapid growth of a new "constructivist" interactive communication model that operates very differently from the one-way standard "instrumental" model of old media.

Download Standard & Interactive Communication Models

Organizing and editing content

Download Webedit01

Download Webedit02

Download Conciseness

Download Technobabble

Effective email

Here's a handout on writing email that works.

 Download Corresponding by Email

Getting the most out of Google

Google is a remarkable search engine, and it keeps evolving, but most people know how to really use it. Here's a handout on some of its resources.

Download Searching the Web with Google