The next online training will be on Monday the 15th. We will be learning about how to make on online survey and taking a look at three products in the market all of which are free. We will also learn how to build a survey using the Google Docs platform. Training is open to the first 50 people with 33 seats allocated to the state staff. Sign up for the training using the widget on the right side.	http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/499d781e7a2ff8ce/4b965c363e647208/49a40d8b9c8624f5/3b09127f/-cpid/54f914fa14e9687d/showRecording/false/showTimer/false/showTranscript/false/showRegistration/false

When the Hoffman Estates Jaycees needed a update to their aging website. I worked with the chapter executive board to bring a fresh new look to their website. For this site it required moving over all the current chapter contain as well as introducing some new features. I choose WordPress as the platform to host their site because two of their board members were familiar with it and training the rest of the board wouldn’t be a problem. The Hoffman Estates Jaycees is a leadership development and networking group for adults between the age of 18 and 40 in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Check out the groups website at http://www.hoffmanestatesjaycees.org

Integrating into social networks is just important as being on them in the past the US Jaycees website hasn’t made reference to our involvement with the online social networks. Today I introduced a new module called stalker which allows us to promote our social network pages on our homepage as well as I wrote a custom module for displaying the organizations Facebook fan page.

Today I’ll begin working the US Jaycees Site. My first task is to perform a Full DB backup just incase something goes wrong. This was going well until I ran into my first problem i was unable to access the db server which is no big deal since i could get into the php admin panel. It’s been so long since I’ve had to perform a manual backup in MYSQL. But that what they make Google for right? After getting the backup completed and burned to a CD i moved on to updated the directory and posting some new documents. While doing this I came up with a interesting idea to keep track of my work though out the year. I’m using Google docs and created a form using the form feature to track my work which is pictured below. I really haven’t put much though into changing the site design and layout. I personally like it so lets see what people ask me to do.

It’s me !!!!!it was just recently announced that I’ll be taking the US Jaycees website from the current webmaster David. No real reason why was giving why the change. But they posted they were looking on the site and I responded with a letter to President Jeff and the Exec board. Look for more postings over the 12 months about my adventures as their 2010 Website Program Manager.

The other day I was talking with a friend about my Windows Home Server configuration and thought I would post a little something about what addins I’m running or as the the title said my Fav 5. I like to keep my WHS running light and simple so the addins I like to use take advantage of features already built into windows 2003 and don’t put any extra strain on the server. But I still like to play around from time to time with some extra stuff.