MAGWeb Minutes
April 15, 2010
Attendees
Eric Gruber, Lawrence, Kan.
Randy Ellis, Overland Park, Kan.
Katherine Shaw, Douglas County, Kan.
Chris Audano, Overland Park, Kan.
Jamie Roberts, Shawnee, Kan.
Sonya Fendorf, Shawnee, Kan.
Rich Lovett, Kansas City, Mo.
Nathan Smith, Lee's Summit, Mo.
NAGW Update
- Volunteering: If you're interested in volunteering for this year's conference in St. Louis , contact Chris Audano at (913) 895-6069 or chris.audano@opkansas.org . Volunteers will receive 50 percent off of this year's conference registration fee!
- Conference Registration: Registration will be open on Monday, April 19, at http://www.nagw.org/
- Pinnacle Awards judging: If you are interested in becoming a judge for this year's Pinnacle Awards, contact pinnacles@nagw.org .
- Next webinar: The next NAGW webinar is titled “Avoiding Social Media Turbulence: A Step-By-Step Process for Launching Your Pilot Program.” It will be presented by Chad Ostroff of Sugar Land, Tex. It takes place on Wednesday, April 21, at noon. To register, visit http://www.nagw.org/index.php/webinars/webinar-registration .
Member Minute
Here
are some interesting sites that were mentioned during member minute:
- http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/: A way of getting the most out of time management.
- http://sixrevisions.com/: A database of tutorials, similar to Smashing Magazine.
- http://www.webdesignerwall.com/: A wall of design ideas, web trends, and tutorials.
- http://www.echofon.com: Twitter app. that's less intrusive than TweetDeck.
- http://www.glympse.com: Share your location from a mobile smartphone, and then others can view that shared location on either a computer or mobile smartphone.
Roundtable Discussion
Web 2.0: This
discussion was postponed for another meeting.
GIMP
Eric Gruber gave a presentation on GIMP, a free, open source image
editor. The user interface is very similar to Photoshop, but it has a much
smaller download size of 17.39 MB. Screenshots are available at http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/.
You can find more information on GIMP at http://www.gimp.org/ .
Next Meeting
Thursday, May 20, 2010 , MARC, 600 Broadway,
Kansas City , Mo.
Topic: Legal issues for web site owners
Minutes submitted by Katherine Shaw