April 17 , 2008
Attendees
Brett Williamson, Johnson County, Kan.
Chris Audano, City of Overland Park, Kan.
Kati Bernard, City of Overland Park, Kan.
Rich Lovett, City of Kansas City, Mo.
Randy Ellis, City of Overland Park, Kan.
Susan Waters, MARC
Daniel Davis, Jackson County, Mo.
Jamie Roberts, City of Shawnee, Kan.
Sonya Fendorf, City of Shawnee, Kan.
Preston Faudere, Clay County, Mo.
Julie Wittman, MARC
Chris Giffin, MARC
Welcome and Introductions
Brett Williamson, President, KC MAGWeb
Presentations
FormExperts.com – Rich Lovett
This site helps make forms fast and easy. It sends data as e-mail and can also store it in an Excel spreadsheet. Cost is $47 a year for unlimited forms. It integrates seamlessly into your site using an iframe.
FormExperts.com allows you to add upload attachment fields, captchas and other standard form fields. You can also tailor the form to your own design with color and font choices or by using CSS classes.
SlideShowPro – Brett Williamson
This tool allows you to create more visually-pleasing photo galleries quicker and for only $29 per user. It is a Flash-based product. You can customize colors, sizes, thumbnails, etc. You can add video, music or narration. It comes as an extension to Flash and uses Action Script 2.0.
SlideShowPro Director allows for more options. It allows users to change photos out themselves and gives you four levels of permissions. Details: Slideshowpro.net.
Topics for 2008
Possible upcoming topics:
- RSS: How do I get it on my Web site? How do I contribute to an RSS feed? How is government using it today?
- Wiki pages: How do I create a wiki? What is a wiki? How is government using this technology?
- Blogs: Over-rated or underutilized?
- Mask ups: Google maps versus Microsoft...how are people using these today?
- GPS and the Web: Get someone from Garmin to speak on this?
- Mapping data and the Web: How are we using this technology in our organizations...get AIMS to present on this?
- Social networking: What are you using to help you in your job?
- Adobe forms: how to creat forms in Adobe
- Redesign of the MAGWeb site
Note: If you would like to volunteer to lead a presentation for a future meeting, please e-mail Brett Williamson (brett.williamson@jocogov.org) or call 913-715-1514.
NAGW Update
Chris Audano
Registrations are now being accepted for the NAGW Conference in St. Charles, Ill., Sept. 10-12, 2008.
We need to boost the number of MAGWeb members who are NAGW members. After all, our region is where it all started!
Next MAGWeb meeting
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 10 a.m.,
MARC,
600 Broadway, Suite 200.
Dan Davis will show us Jackson County’s Emergency Action Journal web application.
Minutes submitted by Susan Waters