I gave a brief presentation at the on hiring programmers, web developers, and designers if you're a nontechnical person and you want to create a website or an application. This presentation was originally given at the Knight News Challenge conference held at the MIT Media Lab June 17-19. I realize these slides are too telegraphic to really give you much information if you didn't see me talk live. I do intend to write about this topic, and I love discussing this with others. Please feel free to email me (you'll see my address on one of the slides) or send me a message via Twitter, where I'm @lisawilliams.

1. Attracting & Landing Tech Talent
for Your Project
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2. You’re not buying,
you’re selling.
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3. Write a spec
No, really. Write a spec.
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4. Create simple wireframes
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7. Where do I find them?
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8. How a coder sees your project
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9. What type of relationship?
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10. How much should I pay?
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11. Ensuring self-sufficiency
First feature after launch
Documented or not?
Where’s the code?
What happens when the site crashes?
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12. Don’t forget to launch
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13. Don’t forget to look beyond
launch
What feature do you add on day 2, and how?
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14. Get more dangerous
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15. Thanks!
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