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ADVISORY/Famed Computer Scientist Dr. Jakob Nielsen to Speak at Montclare Speaker Series; SRO high-tech crowd to hear `the smartest person on the Web'.


Business Editors/High Tech Writers

ADVISORY...For Friday (July 14)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Who: Dr. Jakob Nielsen Jakob Nielsen can mean:
  • Jakob Nielsen (mathematician)
  • Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant)
 

-- "the reigning guru guru (g`r, gr`  of usability" - Fortune Magazine

-- "the smartest person on the Web" - ZDNet

Famously fa·mous·ly  
adv.
1. In a way or to an extent that is well known: "his famously neurotic mannerisms [are] lampooned in the novels of Evelyn Waugh" 
 outspoken, Dr. Nielsen has been responsible for many

of the most innovative user-interface developments in operating

system software (Mac OS), application software and World Wide

Web interfaces.

What: The Montclare Speaker Series, an invitation-only event

focusing on the most important issue facing Web-based

businesses.

When: 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. (lunch 12:30 - 1:30 - reception at 6 P.M.)

Where: Oakland Marriott Hotel, 1001 Broadway, Oakland CA 94607 -

Jewett Memorial Ballroom

Why: 95% of Web sites fail because of poor usability. Dr. Jakob

Nielsen, author of the number one Amazon best-seller "Designing

Web Usability Web usability is the application of usability in those domains where web browsing can be considered as a general paradigm (or "metaphor") for constructing a GUI. General " will address a credentialed high-tech crowd on

making better Web sites.

Note: Event is completely full -- there is a long, eager waiting list

DAY OF EVENT CONTACT: Chris Gulker, VP Marketing -- cell phone

650/740-5260

Montclare Technologies, Inc. (www.montclare.com), the first `2nd-generation' Web developer, is solving the biggest problem facing today's emerging business leaders -- how to reliably execute demanding business plans on Internet time In the early days of the public Internet, Internet time referred to the breakneck speed with which companies scrambled to gain traffic and market share on the Web. A new business could come and go within a matter of weeks. . Montclare's Web Team approach is the `unfair advantage' of companies committed to succeed in a medium where the only constant is change.

Montclare Technologies, Inc. 1000 Broadway Street, Suite 440 Oakland, California “Oakland” redirects here. For other uses, see Oakland (disambiguation).
Oakland (IPA: /ˈoʊklənd/), founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S.
 94607 Phone: (510) 457-4300 Fax: (510) 457-4301
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