These are the slides from Daniel Spillers awesome presentation on Wordpress…
Another Great #RefreshCA Meeting…
May 28, 2009 By Comments
I just wanted to post a quick note about this past Tuesdays Central Arkansas Refresh meeting. We had another great turnout, somewhere between 40 and 50 people. It’s great to see the group continue to grow in size w/ each meeting. I think that we broke 100 on our Facebook Group this past week also, so everyone keep spreading the word.
If you were unable to attend Tuesday night you missed out on two great presentations. Daniel Spillers from UALR gave an awesome presentation on Wordpress and how they have rolled it out as their CMS. I hope to have his slides from his presentation available on the Refresh website this week. Kelly Griffin also gave a presentation on Adword campaigns and demonstrated a tool that he has developed in ColdFusion for managing their day to day bidding process. Both talks were extremely informative and I left out w/ brain overload…
We also streamed the meeting via Mogulus for a few that were unable to attend. I hope to have that video posted on the website as well so that everyone can watch it on demand.
Topic / Speaker for Next Month…
Since having two speakers at each meeting doesn’t leave a lot of room for networking after the meeting we have decided to only have one speaker each month, this will give us a lot more time for questions and answers as well as networking. We are looking for some ideas from the group as to what topic they would like to discuss at our next meeting and if anyone out there is interested in sharing a presentation with the group just drop us a note and let us know. One thing that I have come to realize just by hanging out with everyone at these meetings is that I really underestimated the level of talent that we have in Central Arkansas, we are blessed to have some sharp people that are doing some amazing things.
Next Month’s Meeting…
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, June 30th at 6pm at The Flying Saucer again. We will be sending out the usual Facebook Event Notifications as reminders, and you can also RSVP via Twitter by going here: http://twtvite.com/3vsnym.
I also wanted to add one more thing…
I can’t thank Brant Collins enough for being our equipment guru, he brought his projector, cameras, laptops, etc. and handled all of the technical stuff for the presentations. Next time you see him be sure to thank him because I can promise you things wouldn’t run near as smoothly if I tried to manage all of that. Also, thanks to everyone else who has helped out w/ the planning and managing of our Facebooks, LinkedIns, Twitters, etc.
Look forward to seeing you at the next #RefreshCA meetup!!
Central Arkansas Refresh Group
Next Meeting: Call for Speakers
May 27, 2009 By Comments
We are going to need to come up with a topic and a speaker for our next meetup, if anyone has any ideas or would like to volunteer, be sure to comment below. We are probably only going to do one presentation from now on so that everyone can have a chance to network a little more afterwards.
If you were unable to attend last nights meeting you missed out on a great meeting, we are going to have the video and slides from the presentations posted soon.
Next Meeting: Tuesday, May 26th
May 14, 2009 By Comments
I just wanted to post an update about our next Central Arkansas Refresh meeting which will be held on Tuesday, May 26 at The Flying Saucer in Downtown Little Rock (see the map below for directions). Our meetings are held downstairs, when you walk in the front door walk into the main dining area and look to your right, you will see a doorway leading to the dungeon, that’s where we can be found…
This next meeting we are going to have Daniel Spillers from UALR’s web team on hand to discuss Wordpress Development and Kelly Griffin is going to discuss blog monetization and how we should all be making money from our posts! It should be a very informative meeting with a lot of good dialogue. I would think that anyone who has a website could benefit from both of these topics. Also, for those of you in our Facebook Group, David Kinkade is going to be sending out the event notification soon. Since I have a tendency to forget to send these out until a week beforehand he has volunteered to manage that for us…
In only a short period of time our group has continued to grow in attendance at each meeting. Presently our Facebook Group is closing in on 100 members! If you missed last month’s meetup you missed out on Darren Huckey’s presentation on Drupal which everyone enjoyed, click here for his presentation slides. Also, Brant Collins spoke for a few minutes about the Innovate Arkansas project and how they are helping tech startups around the state, I know that there were several people in the group that are already utilizing their services.
Several members of our community have also stepped up to help out in a couple of key areas and I wanted to be sure to thank a few of them, and trust me I know that I am leaving some folks out, sorry it’s been a busy week!
- Steaming Video from the Meetings (thanks to Rob McBryde)
- Presentation Slides on Slideshare (thanks to Keith Crawford)
- LinkedIn Group Formed (thanks to Bryan Jones)
- We have a Twitter (be sure to follow @refreshca)
- Brant Collins is now our official A/V Guy so we are operational for presentations, etc.
Presentation: Darren on Drupal
May 4, 2009 By Comments
These are the slides from Darren Huckey’s presentation on Drupal at our last meeting for those of you who were unable to attend. Sorry there is no audio but we are working on streaming for our next meetup:
Darren Huckey on Drupal
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