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I’d like to announce two new Facebook groups I’ve created:

Web 101: [link] The idea with this group is to build a collaborative community of professional developers and businesspeople who need to learn how to adapt their business to 21st Century realities. The thought had occurred to me that too many developers don’t know how business works in the real world, and certainly, I run into a lot of clients who don’t know how business works online.

Obviously, the side benefit is networking and cross-pollination between web-oriented people and more traditional businesses. I’m very keen to see what happens when we draw the two groups together without the pressures of deadlines and deliverables!

Web Symposium: [link] This group is by invitation only, and aims to serve the professional design/development community. As with Web 101, the goal is to see what free-form ideas can be derived by taking away deadline and delivery pressures and just putting genuine professionals in the same place to talk. Folks are encouraged to apply for membership, but be prepared to supply a professional portfolio as a means of gaining admittance; subsequent members will be voted on by the membership (or by a committee; that’s still up in the air.)