Kansas City Web Professionals
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Kurt Loudon Data Systems Architect at Shafer, Kline & Warren, Inc.
Our next meeting will be held :
6:30 PM, Wed, September 23, 2009
Centriq Training Center
8700 State Line Rd, Leawood, KS
(West side of State Line Rd, directly across from Ward Parkway Mall)
Sponsor: CJK Software Consultants
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Food and door prizes will be provided by : CJK Software Consultants
Monthly attendance is increasing! In order to ensure that we have enough food for you this month, please send an email to Ray Harris ( kcwebpro1@kcwebpros.com ) to indicate if you will be attending. Thanks very much !
Remember to also attend if you ordered a DVD of July's presentation so that you can pick up the DVD.
This month there are two topics:
Topic #1: Content Management System - CMS Lite (speaker: John Krzysztow)
John Krzysztow President At Cjk Software Consultants, Inc
John will talk about building and developing simple web sites. What should the thinking process consist of when building your web site. What decisions should the business owner non-profit consider when developing the web site. He will demonstrate his web site and the very simple content management system that he uses for his web site. It is so simple to use, it won't take more then 5 minutes to understand and use this product.
Topic #2: Technical Presentation: CMS with Text Control in ASP.Net (speaker: Ruben Mendez)
Ruben will showcase a couple of sites developed that uses free textbox CMS. He will demonstrate the differences between per page data and data driven pages using CMS. He can also demonstrate how the photo gallery works and how you can use multiple CMS instances within one page for tabbed web pages.
Mini-Bio:
Ruben is a self-taught developer who started developing applications using MS Access in 1999. Over the years, his development skills have grown to include VBA, SQL, ADP, PHP, HTML, CSS, Flash and many more. He has created and maintained applications currently being utilized in school districts across the country and in small businesses in Europe and India. He obtained his MCP in .NET Web Development, CompTIA A+ Certification, ACE CS3 Web Designer and MOS Certification in Office 2003 at Centriq, which not only helped him to continue his self-training, but to continue his passion and ambition in development, and to pursue his career in the .NET world.
Ruben is an effective organizer and planner. His outgoing and friendly nature allows him to interact well with other staff members at all levels and is able to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical persons. Ruben prides himself on being a team player and considers meeting deadlines a personal priority. Read more about Ruben Ricardo Mendez at www.aadeveloper.com
Topic #3: Effectively Using Twitter And Creating Twestivals (speaker: Mark Van Baale)
Mark will talk about how he has most effectively used Twitter - to connect with people and share information. He will also talk about two (2) Twestivals he organized in the Kansas City area and how the planning committee used Twitter to spread the word and help raise donations for this event.
Mini-BIO:
Mark is an active member of the Social Media Club of Kansas City. Lead and organized Kansas City Twestivals that raised funds for charities. Known as a "Connector" on Twitter in Kansas City community for helping others and showing them the ropes on how to use Twitter.
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See you there!