Find Your Tribe: Social Media and Meaningful Customer Connections for Business Professionals

Presenter:  Krystal Hosmer, VegasPUG

This presentation covers the questions of just what is social media, how it has vastly changed the marketing landscape, how its various tools work and how business people can use these tools to make one-on-one connections with customers. The presentation  features examples from the presenter's own practice as well a case study showing the thinking behind the strategy.

Demonstration of Artisteer: The Automated Web Designer

Presenter:  Jeff Foster, Extensoft (developers of Aristeer)

Artisteer allows designers to create CMS themes and templates with no coding knowledge necessary.  Artisteer is software for Mac and PC that allows non-technical and print designers to easily create website templates, Joomla templates, Drupal themes, Wordpress themes, DotNetNuke skins, and Blogger templates in minutes. http://www.artisteer.com

Basic Server Communication with Flash CS4 Professional

Presenter: John Olson, VegasAUG

After learning the basics of Flash and ActionScript, the next thing that most people tend to want to know is how to have Flash talk to the server, usually involving a contact form.  This presentation will focus on getting started using Flash and a little bit of ActionScript and some pre-built server scripts to send information from Flash to an email form handler (we'll be using GoDaddy's gdform).  In a more advanced example, we will send and load information with the server without that typical HTML page refresh. 

Snacks & goodies will be provided at the meeting so don't eat too much before coming to the meeting.