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The presentation will cover:
A panel will present a wide ranging discussion of Backup Technologies. We will include the following topics:
Participation from the audience will be encouraged.
OCCA member Scott Hendison will review the new technology presented at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The show is the world's largest convention of suppliers of all types of electronics products for home and business. Scott will be reporting on a wide variety of electronic goodies.
So, join us and let's kick off the new year with a fun and informative meeting--having a look at some cool tools and toys that are scheduled to come our way soon.
Have you considered using WordPress, but aren't sure where to start?
Do you wish you had someone to show you the ropes?
Would you like to setup the basics of your WordPress in a short amount of time?
Wordpress is all the rage these days. It's a great tool for service providers and small businesses who want to build relationships with potential customers, and manage their own website. Wordpress is one of the most powerful blogging and website building tools available. With each passing day, it has also become a very easy tool to use, if you know what to do.
What You'll Learn:
Best for:
Small business & entrepreneurs interested in WordPress and building sites with this tool.
Tom Howe will explain how to get new customers and increase revenue with smart use of social media marketing sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Podcasts, Flickr, Blogs, Biznik, and others.
Tom is the president of Control Center Computing, Inc., a Lake Oswego based consulting firm that helps businesses with every aspect of their online presence. He has advised businesses and nonprofits of every size and has been a speaker at over 60 developer conferences around the world. In addition, he has recently been featured in the Business section of The Oregonian.â€
John Battelle recently wrote, "Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it." You don't have to look very far to find examples that prove his point.
Over the last year, Jason Grigsby has been collecting examples of where companies are making mistakes when it comes to their mobile strategies and desperately seeking examples of those who get it.
Learn from both the outstanding success and cringe-worthy failures of others as you begin to formulate your plans for navigating the mobile landscape.
Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street Journal\'s Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile Portland, a local mobile group.
Jason is a co-founder of Cloud Four, a small start-up focused on mobile and web development.
He blogs at Cloud Four and provides a frequent updates about mobile as @grigs on Twitter.
What will this presentation do for you? You will understand:
This is the foundation of all secure online activities like banking, logging into your accounts, making purchases at Amazon etc.
Provide a cross platform encryption engine that can properly encrypt and decrypt from Mac, Linux and Windows, allowing servers to send fully encrypted packages to end users.
Case Study: Increase Efficiency, Decrease Email
Neal Otto, owner of Jumpstart Computer Training, Inc., will present a case study at the June 28 OCCA meeting on his work to improve communication efficiency and workflow with Dawson Construction Inc. of Bellingham Washington.
After analysis and training, Jumpstart was able to increase Dawson's overall communications efficiency by over 10% (client calculation).
Presentation will cover useful guidance on assessing client needs, developing and implementing solutions, as well as share workflow efficiency guidelines developed for the client using Outlook (concepts also applicable to Thunderbird, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, etc.).
Where?
Red Lion Inn at the Portland Convention center - Red Lion Hotel Portland - Convention Center 1021 NE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR 97232
When?
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 6:00pm to 8:30pm PDT
Who?
Scott Hanselman from Microsoft will be presenting WebMatrix, their new free tool that allows you to create, customize and publish websites that can grow with you, from design and installation to deployment and maintenance.
It is one of the simplest tools for creating web sites that has come along in a long, long time.
To get started you can select an application from the built-in gallery, containing such applications as DotNetNuke, Umbraco, WordPress, Drupal or Joomla.
Or you can create your own masterpiece from scratch, written in either PHP or ASP.Net.
Scott has made presentations to the OCCA before, and has always been well received and appreciated.
Bio
Scott Hanselman works out of his home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack.
Before this, for over 6 years, he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and he\'ll speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen.
What?
No host dinner and networking from 6 to 7, and the monthly meeting starts at 7.