acid­labs and Hinch­cliffe & Com­pany are pleased to announce that they agreed to a part­ner­ship that will see acid­labs deliver Web 2.0 Uni­ver­sity’s courses in Aus­tralia and New Zealand. Part­ner­ing also with Web Direc­tions, who will pro­vide event host­ing and pub­lic­ity, Web 2.0 Uni­ver­sity is a first in the region.

Courses will be offered sev­eral times a year through host­ing part­ner Web Direc­tions, includ­ing at Web Direc­tions South, where the very first Web 2.0 Uni­ver­sity Exec­u­tive Boot­camp in the south­ern hemi­sphere will be offered as a pre-​​conference work­shop on 23 Sep­tem­ber 2008.

You can reg­is­ter now for Web 2.0 Uni­ver­sity at https://​secure​.web​di​rec​tions​.org/​w​d​s08.

Web 2.0 Uni­ver­sity is the world’s lead­ing edu­ca­tion ser­vice to help busi­ness and tech­ni­cal lead­ers move their busi­nesses into the 21st Cen­tury. Web 2.0 Uni­ver­sity con­tains prac­ti­cal and hard hit­ting pre­mium edu­ca­tion that delves deeply into the design pat­terns and busi­ness mod­els for tak­ing busi­nesses fully into the mod­ern online world.

Web 2.0 Uni­ver­sity can be found at http://​web20u​ni​ver​sity​.com.

Aimed at both the For­tune 500 and web startup audi­ence, Web 2.0 Uni­ver­sity deliv­ers must-​​know knowl­edge on how to design next gen­er­a­tion online prod­ucts and ser­vices. Thou­sands of prod­uct man­agers, exec­u­tives, and archi­tects on three con­ti­nents have com­pleted this highly rated Web 2.0 education.

acid­labs will deliver Hinch­cliffe & Company’s Web 2.0 Uni­ver­sity courses in the region, and thanks to our exper­tise in under­stand­ing the needs of regional busi­ness through our con­sult­ing activ­i­ties, will deliver the courses cus­tom tai­lored for the local market

In addi­tion to the gen­eral events, acid­labs will offer company-​​tailored ver­sions tuned to the spe­cific needs of organisations.

The Founder of Web 2.0 Uni­ver­sity is Dion Hinch­cliffe, Pres­i­dent & Chief Tech­nol­ogy Offi­cer of the Enter­prise Web 2.0 advi­sory and con­sult­ing firm Hinch­cliffe & Com­pany, based in Alexan­dria, VA. Dion speaks and writes pro­lif­i­cally in addi­tion to work­ing with clients rang­ing from For­tune 1000 com­pa­nies and gov­ern­ment agen­cies to tech­nol­ogy star­tups. He is Editor-​​in-​​Chief of Social Com­put­ing Mag­a­zine and as well as pub­lish­ing and blog­ging widely speaks through­out North Amer­ica and Europe about Enter­prise 2.0, Web 2.0, Enter­prise Social Soft­ware, and SOA.

Alexan­dria, Vir­ginia based Hinch­cliffe & Com­pany is one of the world’s most highly-​​regarded Web 2.0 and Enter­prise 2.0 con­sul­tan­cies, assist­ing its clients through strate­gic ser­vices includ­ing con­sult­ing, advi­sories, brief­ings and education.