Welcome and intro slides for 10/2009 monthly BayCHI meeting

1. Welcomes You
October 13, 2009

2. Tonight’s program…
Panel: Wikimania 2009 Redux
 Moderator: Adina Levin, SocialText
 Panelists:
• Micah Alpern, Yahoo!
• Ed Chi, PARC
• Jack Herrick, wikiHow

3. Tonight’s participants…
Adina Levin is the co-founder of
SocialText
Micah Alpern is director of user
experience for open search at Yahoo!
Ed Chi is area manager and senior
research scientist at PARC
Jack Herrick is the founder of wikiHow

4. For all the updated information
you need about BayCHI, visit…
www.baychi.org

5. Join BayCHI…
 Visit the BayCHI web site at
www.baychi.org and click Join BayCHI
 Membership is just $20 for the first year
and $15 to renew

6. BayCHI Member Benefits
 Job Bank
 Consultants Directory
 Library
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 Tutorial discounts
 Monthly newsletter
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 Supporting the organization that brings you
outstanding programs, BOFs, and tutorials

7. Sign up for monthly meeting
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8. Become part of the
BayCHI LinkedIn community…
 You must be a current member of BayCHI
 Go to www.linkedin.com/
 Also visit www.baychi.org/linkedin/ for more
details
News Flash: We have over 1000 BayCHI
members enrolled in the BayCHI LinkedIn
group!

9. BayCHI needs you…
 Volunteers make things happen!
 Most Urgent Volunteer Needs:
 Podcast Curator
 Podcast Copywriter
 Volunteer Co-Coordinators
 Web page copywriters
 Interested? Contact Stacie or Nancy at
volunteer@baychi.org

10. For all the updated information
you need about BayCHI, visit…
www.baychi.org

11. Tonight’s program…
Panel: Wikimania 2009 Redux
 Moderator: Adina Levin, SocialText
 Panelists:
• Micah Alpern, Yahoo!
• Ed Chi, PARC
• Jack Herrick, wikiHow

12. Tonight’s participants…
Adina Levin is the co-founder of
SocialText
Micah Alpern is director of user
experience for open search at Yahoo!
Ed Chi is area manager and senior
research scientist at PARC
Jack Herrick is the founder of wikiHow

13. Want to suggest a topic for a
BayCHI program meeting?
Contact the Program Planning Committee at
monthly-programs@baychi.org

14. BayCHI Tutorials
 Next proposed course:
 “Website design strategy and implementation”
• Bryan Zmijewski, Jeremy Britton and others,
ZURB
• Q1 2010 (exact dates and locations TBD)
 To propose a possible tutorial, contact:
 Jay Elkerton, jelkerton@baychi.org or
 Roeland van Krieken, rvankrieken@baychi.org
Visit http://www.baychi.org/tutorial/

15. BayCHI BOFs
 Active Birds-of-a-Feather groups for
BayCHI members and others
 Consultants
 Future Systems BOF
 Interaction Design
 Java Web Developer BOF
 Mobile Applications
 Usability Engineering
Visit www.baychi.org/bof

16. Do you know an industry
leader or have a topic to
present for a BOF meeting?
Contact a BOF leader at www.baychi.org/bof

17. BayCHI Library
 A service for BayCHI members only
 See our staff in the lobby to browse and
check out materials
 Visit www.baychi.org and click Library
for:
 our list of tutorial notes and videos
 how to reserve, borrow, and return
materials

18. BayCHI audio & visual recordings
are available…
 Did you miss a BayCHI meeting?
 Download the recordings directly or
subscribe to our podcast feed at
www.baychi.org/podcast/
 News Flash! BayCHI will be publishing
the backlog of podcasts soon. Stay
tuned to the podcast page for details

19. BayCHI Recording Policy
 Recording of this program meeting by
audience members is not permitted
 The new policy is on the program page at
www.baychi.org/program/

20. BayCHI Dinner
 Join us before the BayCHI meeting
 For information visit our web site at
www.baychi.org and click Dinner Info

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22. BayCHI Podcasts and
Conversations Network
 News Flash! BayCHI podcasts are now
available via Conversations Network!
 For more details, see:
 http://chi.conversationsnetwork.org/
 We need additional volunteers to help
with this exciting effort:
 Podcast Curator
 Podcast Copywriter

23. November BayCHI Meeting
Tuesday, Nov. 10th, 7:30 – 9:30PM @ PARC
Exciting Topics and Speakers To Be Announced
For more details, see:
http://www.baychi.org/