MAGWeb Minutes
Nov. 20, 2008
Attendees
Brett Williamson, Johnson County, Kan.
Susanne Neely, Lenexa, Kan.
Tom Erickson, Johnson County Sheriff’s Office
Maria Beermann-Foat, Johnson County Med-Act
Rich Lovett, Kansas City, Mo.
Susan Waters, MARC
Daniel Davis, Jackson County, Mo.
Karen Sorensen, Johnson County Wastewater
Chris Giffin, MARC
Kati Bernard, Overland Park, Kan.
Anthony Oropeza, Johnson County Park and Recreation
Sarah Wilson, Johnson County Library
David LaCrone, Johnson County Library
Joshua Neff, Johnson County Library
John Beadles, Gladstone, Mo.
Kreg Cox, Gladstone, Mo.
Jeff Gulley, Raymore, Mo.
Sara Cooke, Liberty, Mo.
Chris Audano, Overland Park, Kan.
Sean Reilly, Overland Park, Kan.
Stephanie Williams, MARC
Barbara Hensley, MARC
Eric Gruber, Lawrence, Kan.
Welcome and Introductions
Brett Williamson, President, KC MAGWeb
NAGW Update
Chris Audano
The 2008 NAGW Conference made a small profit. NAGW is working on a membership drive and providing more benefits. Moody Gardens in Galveston, Tex., the 2009 conference location, didn’t sustain much damage during the hurricane.
Social Networking Presentations
Twitter -- Eric Gruber, Joshua Neff, David LaCrone
The City of Lawrence is experimenting with using Twitter and Feedity to automate postings from their news release page.
Twitter is a tool to send short (140-character) messages to "followers" who have subscribed to your messages.
Twitter is much more casual and informal than blogs. It is okay to follow and be followed by complete strangers on Twitter.
You can send messages from their Web application (www.twitter.com), as a txt from your phone, using their mobile app, or using any of several third-party tools such as Twirl, TweetDeck or FriendFeed.
Blogs/Facebook/MySpace – Sarah Wilson
Johnson County Library is using all of these tools to reach out to their customers. You can find their blog at www.jocolibrary.org/news. Their social marketing presence can be found at www.jocolibrary.org/everywhere.
A marketing assistant manages most of the messaging on FaceBook and MySpace.
Pipes by Yahoo – Brett Williamson
Pipes is a mashup builder that lets you grab and query any RSS feeds, providing unique results. You can then grab the code and place it into an I-frame on your page. Check it out at pipes.yahoo.com.
Flickr – Susan Waters
Flickr is a photo-sharing website owned by Yahoo. You can post photos and share them with friends, family, strangers, etc. For $25 a year you can get an account with unlimited uploads, statistics and no ads.
Photos can be added to sets, collections and a map. You can add keywords and comments to photos and add your pictures to Flickr groups of similar interests.
MARC has created a Flickr group for Smart Moves, under KCSmartMoves. Photos added to this group are displayed on www.kcsmartmoves.org. The Library of Congress has been using Flickr to help identify and catalog some sets of their historical photos: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/. The Atlanta Regional Council used Flickr for their 50 Forward photo contest: www.flickr.com/groups/framingthefuture/
Brett provided handouts for Twitter, Yahoo’s Pipes and Blogging in the Public Sector.
Next MAGWeb meeting
Thursday, December 18, 2008, 10 a.m.,
City of Overland Park, 8500 Antioch.
Topic: Networking/Holiday Lunch.
Minutes submitted by Susan Waters