KIC E-News -- Volume 3 Issue 2
April 29, 1999
KIC E-News Summary
EVENTS:
Eighth International World Wide Web Conference
K'nechtology will be attending the Eighth International World Wide Web Conference (WW8) is being held being in Toronto, Canada May 11-14, 1999.
The conference is a four-day forum featuring research, technology, application innovations, societal issues, governmental issues, product offerings, services, and market potential. The WWW8 will provide a venue for discussions and demonstrations of the pressing issues and hottest topics concerning the Web. The conference will consist of refereed paper sessions, poster and panel sessions, keynote and invited speakers, a W3C track, an industrial track, tutorials, workshops, an exhibition, and a developers day where the most recent developments in technology will be discussed.
Two of the many speakers include Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the World Wide Web) and Robert Metcalfe (best known for inventing the Ethernet and founding 3Com Corporation). This promises to be one of the most, if not the most important Internet related conferences ever to take place on Canadian soil.
As usual we'll be on the lookout for the issues that will affect you and for information to help your business get the most from Internet & Intranet technologies.
For more information on the WWW8 visit their web site at www8.org
gOgO's Tips:
KIC E-News is proud to introduce this new section to our newsletter. gOgO will be continually preparing tips to make your Internet or Intranet surfing more successful. This issues' tips - E-mail
- When sending a URL (web site address) via e-mail, always put "http://" in front of www.xxx.xx so that the recipient (usually) can simply click and launch the site. Otherwise, they are required to cut & paste the address into their browser. This extra task may discourage some people from checking the URL.
- When sending a web site address via e-mail it's a good idea to put the name of site in the subject line of the e-mail for easy e-mail file management and future retrieval.
- When giving out your e-mail address, always write it down or spell it out over the phone. Never assume YOURS is so especially easy that the other person will remember it.
- Choose e-mail addresses that are easily identified with your name or business. People may not remember who belongs to that cute e-mail address.
- Prior to sending attachments of more then a meg, verify the recipient's connection speed and any network restrictions. No one wants to wait 10 minutes for their e-mails to download, also many firewalls will automatically reject e-mails containing attachments over a certain size.
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For more information on any topic covered in KIC E-News, please contact us by e-mail answers@knechtology.com or by telephone at 416.855.6351.
Canadian recipients of KIC E-News, be sure to look for regular articles and product reviews by our founder Alan K'necht in Computer World Canada.
