"Performant news interactive projects" & "Google AMP/Facebook Instant Articles"
Details
We have two talks this month on March 22 at Upstatement (133 Portland Street, 5th Floor, in Boston. Closest MBTA stops are Haymarket or North Station.):
• "Developing performant interactive projects for a digital newsroom" by Elaina Natario, Russell Goldenberg and Gabriel Florit of The Boston Globe
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• "Getting ready for Google AMP and Facebook Instant Articles" by Matt Wagner of HBR.org
Gathering and networking at 6, talk starts at 6:45.
THANK YOU Iotopia-solutions (http://www.iotopia-solutions.com/) for sponsoring!
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Talk and presenter details
Developing performant interactive projects for a digital newsroom
Description:
For the past year and half we—the newsroom dev/design team at the Boston Globe—have been iterating and improving our approach to developing one-off editorial interactives. We'll give you an overview of our process, walk you through our app scaffolding, and show you the ins and outs of creating performant and user-friendly experiences for various projects.
Bios:
Elaina Natario, Digital Designer, Boston Globe
A designer with a knack for clean UI and delightful, accessible user experiences. Enthusiastic about code, mid century furniture, baked goods, and GIFs.
Russell Goldenberg, Newsroom Developer, Boston Globe
Russell works with data and multimedia to create visualizations and interactive stories. He believes homing pigeons are the news carriers of the future.
Gabriel Florit, Newsroom Developer, Boston Globe
Gabriel is a data graphics reporter at the Boston Globe. His previous jobs include writing software to keep track of trains, helping Alaskan legislators file campaign disclosures electronically, and visualizing data for health policy NGOs.
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"Getting ready for Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and Facebook Instant Articles"
Description:
The publishing industry is abuzz with talk about Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and Facebook’s Instant Articles. What are they and how are they different? We’ll discuss how they affect the work we do as designers and developers, and what they could mean for website traffic and revenue.
Bio:
Matt Wagner, Senior Technical Producer of Harvard Business Review (hbr.org)
Matt is a full-stack developer at the Harvard Business Review, with experience across a range of front-end and back-end frameworks, content management systems and tech/business processes. If he’s not tinkering with code, he wrangles recipes in the kitchen and hikes with his dog.
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