TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL

5:30PM Thursday, October 1 2009, at Ramada Inn

Learn how to use the new IEEE-SCV-TMC website.

We will continue our training sessions for those who need to get the most out of the new IEEE SCV TMC wesbite. We will get together before the main IEEE SCV TMC meeting, and go over the topics of interest, mainly focusing on questions from participants:

• Create Content:
  
  • Meeting, Meeting Proposal
  • Blog
  • Website page
• Subscribe to content
• Questions & Answers

For a while the new (beta) website was hiding behind the wraps. It was accessible from an inconspicuous link on the front page of www.IEEE-SCV-TMC.org. After months of development, it finally got officially released on August 28, 2009, just in time for the new season.

The new website is built on Drupal, an open-source content management system. That choice allowed quick construction of all basic functionality, but required extensive programming of bits and pieces that were missing in core Drupal system and contributed modules. Read more...

In an ongoing new website development in the past few months I've added a number of features. It is getting really close to a release. This is a list of latest new features:

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I totaled up the feedback sheets from Thursday evening's chapter meeting.  The reception of the TMC information sesion was mixed, but the after dinner presentation had lots of good reviews.  Read more...

5:30PM Thursday, June 6 2009, at Ramada Inn

Learn how to use new IEEE-SCV-TMC website. Read more...

This evenings meeting was on Preventing Failure in Health Care IT Projects, presented by Peter Hartzman, PhD.  We had a good attendance with 28 attendees. Slides will be posted on the "Meetings" page on the TMC website. 

Here is the tabulation of feedback scores (on a scale of 1 to 5):

Networking session: average score 3.6

After dinner talk: average score 3.9

Talk comments:

Would like Peter to have expanded on actual issues encountered.

Was specific-topic oriented, rather than on process Read more...

3/14 - Experience update for 3/5/09 meeting:

The food purchases were close to the actual attendees (60 attendees , i.e. 62 sign-ups less 13 no-shows and 8 walk-ins - vs 62 sandwiches bought for 58 sign-ups a couple of days before).  But the number of sandwiches eaten was considerably less (maybe because they were cut in half and many only wanted a half?);  that is, there were 20 extra sandwiches left over.  Of the sodas, 32 of 68 purchases were left over.  Read more...

The February 5th The networking session topic was "How do you set and track your goals?", led by Larry Reeves.  The rating from the post-meeting feedback sheets was 4.0 (1 - 5 rating scale) with standard deviation of 0.8.  The written commets were:

Very interesting to hear different appoaches to goal setting

Why did we have to discuss goals?

Ran a little long - limit time for each person

encourage more back & forth Read more...

New (beta) TMC website was created. Here's a brief tutorial

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I created a sample installation of TMC website using [l|http://drupal.org|Drupal] for review of the board and group members. The standard Drupal configuration is enhanced with the following modules:

• Blog, Forum
• Main menu with navigation into old website sections (Meetings, Membership, Training)
• Roles (admin, board member, website moderator)
• Wiki extension (improved navigation using page titles)

New users can register an account, but it needs an approval from someone of the 3 roles above. Read more...