Meetings

The next monthly meeting of TC Web Pros will be held on Tuesday, May 16th from 10 am to 12 noon.

The next monthly meeting of TC Web Pros will be held on Tuesday, April 18th from 10 am to 12 noon. We encourage you to join us for lunch to following the meeting to continue the discussion and to socialize with other members!

Introduction of new officers Passing of business cards and introductions Question brought up about getting video on the web – suggestion made that it be made into a discussion topic – also added use of MSProducer (free download from MS for xp and above) for combining video and PowerPoint slides – does its own video streaming CASE STUDIES Presenters: Bobbi Anderson (Advantage Labs, Inc.), Pamela Grover (Design Tech Consulting, Inc.) and Shelly Hill (Front Porch Web Solutions) Fixed Bid Contracts Important that you determine who the decision-makers are – do you have all the decision makers in on this process -- can be like an iceberg under the water.

Our next meeting of the Twin Cities Web Professionals will take place on Tuesday, March 21st at 10:00 am - 12:00 noon. Remember our new location! We are now meeting at St. Thomas Campus, 2115 Summit Ave, St.

The next monthly meeting of TC Web Pros will be held on Tuesday, February 21st from 10 am to 12 noon. We encourage you to join us for lunch to following the meeting to continue the discussion and to socialize with other members! Our Program: Case StudiesBobbi Anderson of Advantage Labs will be facilitating our Case Studies Program. Bobbi describes the program as "Informal case studies where we discuss what worked/didn't work from a business perspective (such as marketing, sales, proposals, bids, project management, and billing).

Dennis Guldan, a TC Web Pros member, gave a full point by point description of opening an e-commerce online store through Yahoo. Attenders became familiar with the reasons behind choosing Yahoo as a host, setting up a Yahoo store, and how to use a Yahoo store within (linked to for shopping cart purposes) an company domain.

As of December 20, 2005, we have a new regular meeting location. We will be meeting at St. Thomas Campus, 2115 Summit Ave, St. Paul, Room 155 of the Murray Herrick Campus Center. Here is a campus map (our building is #5 on the map): http://www.stthomas.edu/campusmaps/stpaul/stpaul2D.pdf.

12/20 MEETING HIGHLIGHTS

Our last meeting was a great one! We ended the year by looking forward to 2006 -- both from the perspective of our individual businesses as well as the TCWebPros group. We came up with some great ideas moving forward.

NEW LOCATION!! A special "thank you" to Lori Ann Clark for finding a new regular meeting location for us! We will be meeting at St. Thomas Campus, 2115 Summit Ave, St. Paul, Room 155 of the Murray Herrick Campus Center. Here is a campus map (our building is #5 on the map): http://www.stthomas.edu/campusmaps/stpaul/stpaul2D.pdf

We have the room from 10 am to 1 pm. The room is a SMART room, so it includes a computer, Internet access and a LCD projector!!! Yeah!! No more scrambling to find LCD projectors!

Lori Ann Clark of J4 Web Services will be facilitating a discussion on Getting the Most out of Your Business and TC Web Pros in 2006

Please come prepared for a lively discussion on the following topics:

• Plan and set goals for business and organization growth in 2006.
• A quick SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats)
• Marketing goals, and
• Developing a unique value proposition.