Springs Drupal Meet-up: Thursday, April 2, 6:30 p.m.

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vfranklyn's picture
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2009-04-02 18:30 - 21:00 America/Denver
Event type: 
User group meeting

Join us for our next meet-up graciously hosted by East Library in Colorado Springs. Note that this meeting is on the first Thursday of the month. We'll start socializing at 6:30, and the actual chatter will begin at 7:00. Unfortunately, our host locks up at 9, so we'll have to be out by then.

Our April meeting will feature presentations of business users of local Drupal sites. Please invite your bosses and non-technical folks considering Drupal sites to hear how Drupal sites contributed to these local organizations:

  • Ken Moon - Home improvement columnist and radio personality
  • Randy Dalton - Director of the BETR Project - a state of Colorado organization
  • Tony Merschdorf - One of the founders of a men's image and advice web site
  • Andrea Ruskin - One of the principals of Focal Point, an educational consulting company
  • Jen Rexrode, Zach Mather and perhaps another speaker - Harrison School District 2

In addition to these presentations, we are very excited to hear the interchange of opinions and experiences from various business perspectives.

The meeting will take place at the East Library Community Meeting Room, 5550 N. Union Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80918. Here's a Map.

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Press Release Available

Rick Nashleanas's picture

I've written a press release for the April meeting. Any changes are welcome.

We want to fill the room with anyone in the community who might be able to take advantages of the power of Drupal. Please spread the word by posting this press release on blogs, facebook, twitter, local media sites or anywhere else that can give us the exposure we need.

I've got a copy on my blog, http://www.monarchdigital.com/blog/rick-nashleanas/southern-colorado-web... , and in a Google doc, http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df86jwt9_76fbpws9c2 .

Feel free to modify the release to appeal to the audience.

Rick Nashleanas
www.monarchdigital.com

Rick Nashleanas
www.monarchdigital.com

Sent to Producers at KOAA and CS Gazette

attheshow's picture

Some of the producers at KOAA just started up Twitter accounts, so I sent them links to this. @EPNewsFirst. Also sent to @csgazette.

Mark W. Jarrell
Manager of Web Services
Jones Knowledge Integration Group, Inc.
http://jones.com
http://jonesdifference.com
http://jiu.edu
http://jonesknowledge.com
Twitter: attheshow

Mark W. Jarrell
Online Applications Developer
Richland Library
http://www.richlandlibrary.com
http://fleetthought.com
Twitter: attheshow

Response

attheshow's picture

@EPNewsFirst responded: "really interesting--I'm going to check it out thanks!"

Mark W. Jarrell
Online Applications Developer
Richland Library
http://www.richlandlibrary.com
http://fleetthought.com
Twitter: attheshow

It's on PPLD.org's blog

vfranklyn's picture

http://ppld.org/blogs/ppld/?p=869

I'll also Tweet it as PPLD.

Thank you very much

Rick Nashleanas's picture

Thanks so much for our speakers from last night's meeting:

  • Ken Moon demonstrated how he uses his web site as an integrated part of his radio show and his newspaper columns.
  • Andie Ruskin explained how straightforward updating their Drupal site can be at Focal Point.
  • Jen Sprague, Jen Rexrode and Zach Mather talked about their objectives for new sites for all of Harrison School District 2 along with their implementation of their new Drupal sites.
  • Randy Dalton explained how The BETR Project has been able to grow, eliminating the middleman and allowing Randy to immediately provide new content to his statewide constituents.
  • Tony Merschdorf demonstrated the unique features and content of averageguy.com, an image and coaching web site for men.

Looking up from the day to day work of developing dynamic web sites in Drupal, I got so much satisfaction from hearing how important our work in Drupal is to our customers and their businesses.

Rick Nashleanas
www.monarchdigital.com

Rick Nashleanas
www.monarchdigital.com

Sorry, I Was Sick. :(

attheshow's picture

Sorry I couldn't make it to this meetup. I've been out of commission with a stomach virus for the past few days. I'll see everyone at next month's meetup though!

Mark W. Jarrell
Manager of Web Services
Jones Knowledge Integration Group, Inc.
http://jones.com
http://jonesdifference.com
http://jiu.edu
http://jonesknowledge.com
Twitter: attheshow

Mark W. Jarrell
Online Applications Developer
Richland Library
http://www.richlandlibrary.com
http://fleetthought.com
Twitter: attheshow