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Local Government Webmasters Meeting Agenda

Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Chinook Building (King County), Seattle
Room 123

  • 10:00 Welcome and introductions
  • 10:05 Website Search Engine Optimization and Analytics
    • Quinn Robinson, MRSC Web/Network Administrator
      Improving citizen access to information and analyzing site traffic can be greatly improved by using specialized search engine optimization (SEO) and website analytics tools. We will discuss a new SEO tool from Microsoft, which analyzes how search engines index your site, and also shows problems with your site and how to fix them. We'll also discuss Google Analytics, a search engine-focused tool to analyze site traffic.
    • Nate Eckstine, Web Engineer and Bruce Blood, Web Manager, city of Seattle
      Google Urchin: Urchin Software from Google analyzes traffic for one or more websites and provides reports on your visitors. Pros/cons of fee-based Urchin vs. free Google Analytics. Also, Google Search Appliance: search optimization strategies.
  • 11:15 SharePoint Add-ons
    • Rob Mullin, Webmaster, city of Kirkland
      Demo of Kirkland's SharePoint /Trim (now HP) document management web parts integration in SharePoint.
    • Pascal Schuback, Emergency Management Program Manager, King County
      King County's use of SharePoint to coordinate emergency management amongst a variety of cities and agencies.
  • 12:00 Lunch
  • 1:00 Open Data Websites; Neil Berry, WEB/GIS Application Developer, city of Seattle
    "Following the open data trend popularized by San Francisco, New York City, the District of Columbia and other local governments, Seattle recently announced the deployment of Data.Seattle.gov, a website offering city data sets to citizen programmers who want to build citizen-facing applications. The data sets include information on crime statistics, alternative schools, public toilets, public art and numerous other metrics on Seattle life." See http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/747646?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=link.
  • 2:00 Seattle Fiber-Optic Network and New Applications; Tony Perez, Director of Seattle's Office of Cable Communications, and Bruce Blood, Web Manager, city of Seattle
    Seattle's plans for a state-of-the-art fiber-optic network. Also, group brainstorm on new applications made possible via high capacity symmetrical communications
  • 3:00 Adjourn

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