Local Government Webmasters Meeting Agenda

Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Chinook Building (King County), Seattle
Room 123

• 10:00 Welcome
• 10:05 Engage Federal Way
  Margaret Clark, Principal Planner, City of Federal Way
  Nathan Preheim , COO/Co-Founder, MindMixer

  A virtual town hall for the public to submit ideas, help others improve their ideas, and determine the best ideas for their community. Learn about the design, challenges and successes of the system.

• 11:00 Creating and Embedding HTML5 Multimedia on Your Website
  Quinn Robinson, Network Admin/Webmaster, MRSC
  
  • Use of HTML5 JavaScript libraries to enable embedded audio and video tags, which allow cross-platform, smartphone/tablet/PC-friendly multimedia playback, without user a browser plug-in such as Adobe Flash
  • Demo of Adobe Edge - a web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3
  • Demo of Google's Swiffy to convert SWF (Flash) files to HTML5
• 12:00 Lunch
• 1:00 Setting up a Policies and Procedures Wiki
  Peter Breen, Library & IS Assistant, Wiki Project Manager, MRSC
  Learn to set up and configure DokuWiki, a free wiki used by MRSC for policy and procedures documentation, as well as how to identify the need for and select a wiki for your organization.
• 2:00 Discussion Items
  • Menu systems - cross platform capability (OS, browsers, devices)
  • Branding of services provided through 3rd party sites (e.g., Zoomerang, SurveyMonkey, Performance software, etc.)
  • Search-centric websites (e.g., Utah.gov) - Pros and cons
• 3:00 Adjourn

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