MAGWeb Minutes
Sept. 18, 2008
Attendees
Chris Audano, City of Overland Park, KS
Katherine Williams, Douglas County, KS
Sonya Fendorf, City of Shawnee, KS
Anthony Oropeza, Johnson County Park and Recreation
Chris Giffin, MARC
Brett Williamson, Johnson County
Rich Lovett, City of Kansas City, MO
Randy Ellis, City of Overland Park, KS
Eric Gruber, City of Lawrence, KS
Welcome and Introductions
Brett Williamson, President, KC MAGWeb
Member Minute
Congratulations to two of the NAGW Pinnacle Award winners for 2008: the City of Independence, MO, and the City of Lawrence, KS.
The City of Lawrence is rolling out a wiki for an alphabetical listing of services and city resources for its residents. Discussion of blogs, wikis and social networking was brought up as a possible future meeting topic for MAGWeb members.
NAGW Update
Chris Audano
Conference images have been uploaded to the NAGW website.
Still working on getting session material uploaded to the site.
Excellent feedback on the sessions for 2008.
A discussion on Twitter was started, and Eric Gruber volunteered to demonstrate this product in the future.
Presentation: NAGW Conference Wrap-up/Q&A/Review
All attending members
The 2008 NAGW conference presented many new contacts, ideas, and materials for all government webmasters to learn from. We brought those newly learned experiences to the MAGWeb meeting and shared them with everyone in attendance. We visited the following sites:
- GovLoop – a government only social networking site (http://govloop.ning.com)
- EveryMomentNow – connect with the world on today’s most talked about issues
(http://everymomentnow.com) - Technorati – search the Internet for Blogs, Videos, and Photo entries. Find out "who’s talking about me." (http://www.technorati.com/)
- Pipes – site mashup builder by Yahoo (http://pipes.yahoo.com)
- Free neighborhood websites – get your community organized for free (http://www.neighborhoodlink.com)
- Twitter – connect to people across the globe and let them know what you are doing or what it going on … you Twit. (http://twitter.com)
- BizPal Canada – communities come together to provide one centralized resource for small business start-ups. (http://www.bizpal.ca/index_e.shtml)
- MyBuildingPermit – cities from the Seattle, WA, area come together to provide one centralized resource for generating, tracking, requesting, checking, and paying for building permits. (http://www.mybuildingpermit.com/default.aspx)
We searched "NAGW" and found several blog entries on this topic.
Fairfax County, VA, has a FaceBook page – how government uses social networking to communicate with the public.
We would like to have a future presentation on Pipes. It is truly amazing.
Closing: NAGW Conference 2009
The NAGW Conference for 2009 will be in Galveston, TX. We watched a video on the hotel (Moody Gardens) and conference accommodations and were led to wonder, "With so much to do in Galveston, who has time for a conference?"
Next MAGWeb Meeting
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, 10 a.m., Overland Park Justice Center, 8500 Antioch.
Topic: Streaming video and video solutions on the Web. Speakers will include Rich Lovett and an online demonstration from SIRE Technologies.
Minutes submitted by Brett Williamson