Past Meetings: 2005

May 2005

• 3 Usability Series Part I - Government Standards for Usability
  6:30 – 8:30 pm; Location: Arlington Employment Center
  Speakers: Beth Martin (HHS), Claude Steinberg (UserWorks)

April 2005

• 29 Girls Rock on the Web
  6 – 9 pm; Location: Westlake

• 26 The One Minute Website
  11:30 am – 1:30 pm; Location: Mayorga, Silver Spring, MD
  Speaker: Glennette Clark

• 12 Email Newsletters: How-to
  6:30 – 8:30 pm; Location: EEI, VA
  Speakers: Nan Fredman, RealMagnet and Jeanne S. Jennings, Marketing and Product Development Consultant

• 11 Website Marketing for Non-profits
  11:30 am – 1:30 pm; Location: Mayorga, Silver Spring, MD
  Speaker: Donna Wilkins, Charity Dynamics

• 7 User Evaluation Methods: Working Outside the Usability Lab
  6 – 8 pm, Location: American News Women's Club, Washington DC
  Speaker: Nika Smith, UserWorks

March

• 31 Cold Fusion 101
  6 – 8 pm, Location: TeraTech, Rockville, MD
  Speaker: TeraTech

• 29 Right Pricing Contracts
  6 – 8 pm, Location: CGH Technologies, Washington DC, Speaker: Barbara Cline, CPA

• 23 How to – RSS Feeds & Blogs (Technical follow-up)
  6 – 8 pm, Location: TeraTech, Rockville, MD
  Speaker: Nancy McCord, McCord Web Design

• 24 Difficult Work Situations, Resignations, Ending Business Relationships
  7 – 9 pm, Location: Chevy Chase or Bethesda (MD), Speaker: Lynn Friedman, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and Career Coach

• 16 Patents: The Rest of the Story (what happens when your application is received by USPTO)
  6 - 8 pm, Location: USPTO, Alexandria, VA
  Speaker: Rosalind Rollins, USPTO
  

• 15 Web Trends Analysis
  11:30 - 1:30 pm, Location: Mayorga Coffeehouse, MD
  Speaker: Glennette Clark, Lazy Smart Consulting
  

February

• 23 Put It In Practice: Blogging
  11:30 am - 1:30 pm, Location: Mayorga Coffeehouse, Silver Spring, MD
  Speaker: Sabrina Pacifici
  View the presentation

• 22 Using Survey Tools
  6:30 - 8:30 pm, Location: Websurveyor, Herndon, VA
  Speaker: Janet Miller, Websurveyor, Inc.
  View the online resources and the presentation in Powerpoint

• 16 Copyright Issues – Panel
  6 - 8 pm, Location: PhRMA, Washington DC
  Moderator: Sabrina Pacifici
  Panel: Jennifer A. Albert, Partner, Hunton & Williams; John D. Mason, Esq. of Bonner Kiernan Trebach & Crociata

• 8 Put It In Practice: Best Practices – Graphics
  6 - 8 pm, Location: CGH Technologies, Washington DC
  Jennifer Randolph (http://www.hipmousegraphics.com)
  View the presentations: Presentation slides in Powerpoint and List of Resources in Microsoft Word
  
  
• 3 RSS Feeds (Joint meeting with American Newswomen Club)
  6:30 - 9:00 pm, Location: ANWC, Washington DC
  Moderator: Merry Bruns, Senior Consultant, ScienceSites Communications, Inc.
  Panel: Cheryl Contee, Online Content Strategist, Issue Dynamics, Inc.
  Marl Rosenshield, Manager of Training, Westlake Internet Training
  Joseph Galianese, Chief of Communications, Associated Press
  View Mark Rosenshield's presentation in Powerpoint
  

January

• 25 Information Architecture with Thom Haller & Eve Simon
  View Thom's presentation in pdf

Past Meetings: 2004

December

• 15 Small Business Forum

• 13 Girls Rock on the Web: Seasonal Design

• 9 DCWW Holiday Party & Open House
  (DCWW Members & Guests)

• 7 Put It In Practice
  (This meeting is open to the public!)

October

• 19 Freelancing Designers - Panel Discussion
  (This meeting is open to the public!)

September

• 27 Put It In Practice
  (This meeting is open to the public!)

July

• 22 Work Trends: What's Different This Time Around
  (This meeting is open to the public!)

May

• 4 Manage Your Time - Before It Manages You!

April

• 28 DCWW 9th Anniversary Party!
• 19 Special Usability Content & Coffee for DCWW

March

• 25 Office Athletics? Or, How to Alleviate Mouse Elbow

January

• 27 Time Management - Manage Your Time Before Your Time Manages You

Past Meetings: 2003

December

• 9 The Annual Winter Holiday Party Join us in the Fillmore Room of the Boulevard Woodgrill as we celebrate the winter holidays!

November

• 19 Get Your Financial Act Together (Take a look at Terry’s slides).

October

• 15 Trends in Web Design for Associations & Non-profits
• 8 Job Search Strategies Workshop

September

• 16 Annual September Networking Party - Back from the Beach

January

• 8 Steering Committee Meeting
  All Steering Committee Meetings are open to all DC Web Women members. Come and find out what goes on behind the scenes of our community!

Past Meetings: 2002

November

• 6 Steering Committee Meeting
  All Steering Committee Meetings are open to all DC Web Women members. Come and find out what goes on behind the scenes of our community!

September

• 4 Steering Committee Meeting

July

• 10 Meeting: July Executive Board/Steering Committee Meeting
  All Leadership meetings are open to DC Web Women members.
• 17 Monthly Meeting: Measuring Association Web Site Return on Investment
  If your organization is like most nowadays, budgets are tight and Boards and senior staff are scrutinizing every expense. If you're involved with the Web, you know that small investments in your Web site and in Web-enabling your organization can reap huge benefits and save loads of time and money. The question is: how do you measure your return on Web investment to clearly demonstrate the benefits of current, or even increased, level of spending on Internet initiatives?
• 23 Workshop: DCWW Résumé Writing Workshop
  Make your résumé work for you! Are you getting the right responses when you send out your résumé? Need to know how and where to incorporate your technical or creative skills into your résumé? Want to know how to include volunteer experience? Wondering if you should include that one brief job you hated?

June

• 12 Monthly Meeting: Fan Fiction
  Fan fiction is when people who like a certain show, book, movie, (whatever) use those characters, settings, elements (etc.) as a springboard from which to write stories, parodies, pass-the-pens. You might have seen it at cons (conventions like Star Trek). In the past (Dark Ages), these were the productions of ditto machines.

May

• 1 Steering Committee Meeting
  All Steering Committee Meetings are open to all DC Web Women members. Come and find out what goes on behind the scenes of our community!
• 14 Monthly Meeting: Writing for the Web
  Join us for a joint meeting with DC Chapter of Society for Technical Communication on “Writing for the Web” with speaker Merry Bruns.
• 20 Monthly Meeting: Strive and Thrive in Our Challenging Economy
  Tips for those anticipating lay-off and strategies for those living with it. Co-sponsored by the Association for Women in Computing Washington, DC Chapter. Speaker: Dr. Lynn Freidman

April

• 3 DCWW Anniversary Party
  Location: Teaism, Penn Quarter
• 17 Monthly Meeting: Accessibility and the Web
  Accessibility and the Web with panelists: Joy Gatewood Fulton, Jo Schuler

March

• 6 Monthly Meeting: Public Speaking
  If speaking in public gives you the jitters, you are not alone. Over the years, public surveys have found that both men and women fear public speaking more than spiders, heights and even death! You will learn tips for managing the butterflies and understand the special challenges and advantages of being a woman on the platform.
• 12 Steering Committee Meeting
  All Steering Committee Meetings are open to all DC Web Women members. Come and find out what goes on behind the scenes of our community!
• 13 Monthly Meeting: Knowledge Management
  We live in a knowledge intensive world. While the web has put worldwide information at our fingertips, finding what you need, when you need it has become a time consuming and sometimes even impossible quest. Large organizations have experts, but it's hard to identify them or connect to them in a timely manner. Websites and intranets contain millions of pages and searches return thousands of hits. How do we get a handle on dealing with everything?
• 19 Networking Event: DCWW "Pretty in Pink Slips" Party
  Let the networking continue! We had a crowd of nearly 100 men and women, some driving in from well beyond the beltway to attend the event.
• 20 Monthly Meeting: Getting from Wanting to Doing: Interface Design
  Guest speaker (and fellow DC Web Woman) Lorelei Brown will address the various issues of interface design.

February

• 5 Monthly Meeting: Women Rule!
  Presented by Jean Stafford of Executive Coaching for Women, specializing in the unique demands made on executive women.
• 12 Networking Event: Pretty in Pink Slips; Or, You're Beautiful When You're Laid Off
  Join DC Web Women at Teaism in Penn Quarter and network your way into a new job!
• 13 Monthly Meeting: Search Engine Optimization
  Why has search engine placement become a key responsibility for those engaged in Web site marketing? The answer is that between 85 and 90 percent of all Web traffic is generated by the major search engines. But simply having your site listed in major engines does not mean your customers will find it.
• 20 Monthly Meeting: Technology Etiquette
  Join guest speaker Dina Johnson of Accomplishments, Inc. at Figleaf as she discusses "Technology Etiquette."
• 25 Content & Coffee: Distance Learning: A dot.com success story?
  Online courses have taken off, and the competition is heating up. Our panelists are producers, developers, analysts, and academics and are right at the center of making it happen.

January

• 7 Monthly Meeting: Customer-focused Design (Usability)
  Join the DC Web Women as they kick off 2002 with their first program of the new year on "Customer-Focused IT Design."
• 9 Steering Committee Meeting
  All Steering Committee Meetings are open to all DC Web Women members. Come and find out what goes on behind the scenes of our community!
• 23 New Year... New Career!
  Relying on job boards and recruiters to find your dream job? Wondering how to answer the dreaded "What salary are you looking for?" Curious about how to move your resume out of the big stack and into the one that gets responses?

past meetings: 2001

December

• 5 Monthly Meeting: Holiday Party!
  Join us for our annual holiday party at the lovely Teaism in Penn Quarter!
• 11 Networking Event: "Pretty in Pink Slips Party" #2!
  Join the DC Web Women for their second "Pretty in Pink Slips; Or, You're Beautiful When You're Laid Off" Networking Event!

November

• 7 Steering Committee Meeting
  All Steering Committee Meetings are open to all DC Web Women members. Come and find out what goes on behind the scenes of our community!
• 14 Monthly Meeting - Topic: Contracts & Negotiation
  Join the DC Web Women and guest speaker Patricia Kennedy, Esq. as we discuss the techniques and issues surrounding the negotiation of contracts and how they can be used to your advantage.

October

• 3 Networking Event: Pretty in Pink Slips; Or, You're Beautiful When You're Laid Off
  Looking for job leads or just want to network with other Web Women in a relaxed environment? Looking to fill those open positions within your company? Have a client who needs a Web-savvy employee? Join us in the lower level of Teaism's Penn Quarter location and make a few face-to-face connections.
• 10 Job Hunting Workshop
  Need to brush up on those job hunting skills? Former DCWW President Lisa King will give you the tips and tools you need to assist in conducting a successful job hunt.
• 17 Technology, Crime and the Web
  Speaker: Melissa Laughlin, Special Agent, DOEOIG/Tech Crimes Section
• 24 Employee Retention Workshop
  Now that the job market is filled with workers looking for new positions...what are you doing to keep your employees from searching Monster.com during their lunch break? Former DCWW President Lisa King will give employers and employees advice on keeping a happy work relationship.
• 26 Smart Women Finish Rich^TM
  Do you like to plan ahead? Start improving the quality of your life right away with seven simple steps. "Smart Women Finish Rich^TM," based on the best selling book by David Bach, Broadway Books 1999, is a fun, educational seminar specifically designed for women. A complimentary planning workbook and continental breakfast will be provided to participants.

September

• 5 Steering Committee Meeting
  All Steering Committee Meetings are open to all DC Web Women members. Come and find out what goes on behind the scenes of our community!
• 14 Smart Women Finish Rich^TM
  Do you like to plan ahead? Start improving the quality of your life right away with seven simple steps. "Smart Women Finish Rich^TM," based on the best selling book by David Bach, Broadway Books 1999, is a fun, educational seminar specifically designed for women. A complimentary planning workbook and continental breakfast will be provided to participants.
• 19 Monthly Meeting - Topic: Strategic Self-Promotion; Or, How to Use Numbers to Your Advantage (WebTrends Statistics)
  So you run those WebTrends reports each week or month...Now what? Learn how to impress your supervisors by making those numbers count.