June 21, 2007
The meeting was called to order by Chairperson Brett Williamson at the City of Overland Park , KS, at 10:10 a.m.
Attendees
Brett Williamson, Johnson County, KS
Sonya Fendor, City of Shawnee, KS
Rich Lovett, City of Kansas City, MO
Susan Waters, Mid-America Regional Council
(MARC)
Chris Audano, City of Overland Park, KS
Randy Ellis, City of Overland Park, KS
Anthony Oropeza, Johnson County, KS
David Eldridge, Shawnee County, KS
Julie Wittman, Mid-America Regional Council
(MARC)
Stephanie Williams, Mid-America Regional Council (MARC)
Angela Her, Kansas City,
KS
Motion to approve minutes from last meeting: Brett Williamson - Approved by voice vote.
Welcome and Introduction
Brett Williamson
Presentations
1: Absolute News Manager (ANM) by Xigla Software (by Susan Waters)
- Absolute News Manager .NET is a powerful web site content management system specially designed to speed up your activity of adding news, articles, press releases and any other type of content to your web site or corporate Intranet.
- Susan demonstrated how MARC is using this product to distribute news article creation and administration to the individuals that own the content, thus bypassing Susan in the process of getting content on the web.
- ANM is a template-driven, web-based, zone-based, content management application.
2: Adobe Bridge CS3 and how it is integrated with Fireworks CS3 (by Brett Williamson)
- Brett demonstrated the latest features of Adobe Bridge CS3 and how it integrates with Fireworks CS3.
- Adobe Bridge CS3 is a powerful, easy-to-use media manager for visual people, letting you easily organize, browse, locate, and view creative assets. Available in all six editions of Adobe Creative Suite 3 software and all professional Adobe creative applications, Bridge provides centralized access to project files, applications, and settings, as well as XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities.
- Latest Features: new filtering panel, customizable workspace, image stacking, improved XMP metadata support, real time interactive web meetings, access to Adobe Stock Photos, and a Bridge Homepage link.
Discussion Topics
Future Meeting Topics
- CS3 Dreamweaver
- Expression Web
- Building SharePoint websites with SharePoint Designer
- How to manage large sites
- VB.Net, ASP.Net
- Using SEPY with ColdFusion
- Creating payment pages (employee shadowing opportunities)
NAGW Update: Chris Audano
The NAGW
conference is now open for registration. There is a new “shopping
cart” feature for registration. The Pinnacle Awards process is being
updated. Pinnacle Awards entry form will be available soon. It has been suggested
that NAGW host a “jobs” page for members to post openings.
Motion to adjourn meeting: Brett Williamson - approved by voice vote.
Next MAGWeb meeting
Thursday, July 19, 10 a.m., Mid-America Regional Council, Westview Room, 2nd
floor, 600 Broadway, Kansas City, MO.